last mouse movment or keyboard hit

[Ron Eggler]

Hi,

I would like to get the time of the most recent human activity like a cursor
movement or a key hit.
Does anyone know how I can get this back to start some action after there
has been no activity for X minutes/seconds?
Thank you!

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

I would like to get the time of the most recent human activity like a
cursor
movement or a key hit.
Does anyone know how I can get this back to start some action after there
has been no activity for X minutes/seconds?

Which platform? On non-ancient Windows versions, you can periodically
check GetLastInputInfo
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...e/keyboardinputfunctions/getlastinputinfo.asp

 

[Ron Eggler]

Which platform? On non-ancient Windows versions, you can periodically
check GetLastInputInfo
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...e/keyboardinputfunctions/getlastinputinfo.asp

No, it would be for Linux and preferrably it would work on MacOS & Windows
as well....is there anything?
Thanks!

 

[azrael]

You can use wxPython. Take a look on the DemoFiles that you can
download also from the site. I remember that there has been a demo of
capturing mouse coordinates and also one example about capturing Which
key has been pressed at which time.
Just start the time, count the interactions of key strokes and mouse
gestures. Apply some statistics and voila. there it is.

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

You can use wxPython. Take a look on the DemoFiles that you can
download also from the site. I remember that there has been a demo of
capturing mouse coordinates and also one example about capturing Which
key has been pressed at which time.

(Please don't top post)
Does wx catch all events in all other applications?
My understanding is that the OP wants a global detection, not restricted
to a single application.

 

[Ron Eggler]

You can use wxPython. Take a look on the DemoFiles that you can
download also from the site. I remember that there has been a demo of
capturing mouse coordinates and also one example about capturing Which
key has been pressed at which time.
Just start the time, count the interactions of key strokes and mouse
gestures. Apply some statistics and voila. there it is.

But that wouldn't be system wide, would it?

 

[Ron Eggler]

(Please don't top post)
Does wx catch all events in all other applications?
My understanding is that the OP wants a global detection, not restricted
to a single application.

Exactly, I would like to have it global/system widely detected

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

I would like to get the time of the most recent human activity like a cursor
movement or a key hit.
Does anyone know how I can get this back to start some action after there
has been no activity for X minutes/seconds?

Try hooking yourself into the OS screen-saver-code.

Diez

 

[Ron Eggler]

Try hooking yourself into the OS screen-saver-code.

I have looked at the KDE code but couldn't quite figure out how it's
working... Any help would be appreciated!