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Hi,
I want to do something in my app when the user doesn't do anything for a period of time (doesn't move the mouse and doesn't touch any key on the keyboard). MSN Messenger, for example, makes you idle when you are inactive. I want to lock some sections of my app.
How can I test this from my app? How can I get the windows idle time?
Thanks
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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You could use :
virtual BOOL CWinApp::OnIdle( LONG lCount );
Or maybe, use a timer and handle WM_MOUSE_MOVE and WM_KEY_DOWN but this is resource consuming ( I mean polling all the time to see if something changes).
~RaGE();
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I don't want the idle time in my app. In windows in general. I thought OnIdle is called when the application is idle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Then you'll have to set a hook on the mouse and the keyboard inputs, that's the only way to know that nothing happened in "windows in general". Search for hook on Code Project (especially the article by J. Newcomer).
~RaGE();
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Thanks for your time.
Regards,
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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I think this might be of some help:
GetLastInputInfo
The GetLastInputInfo function retrieves the time of the last input event.
BOOL GetLastInputInfo(<br />
PLASTINPUTINFO plii
);
Parameters
plii
[out] Pointer to a LASTINPUTINFO structure that receives the time of the last input event.
Return Values
If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
If the function fails, the return value is zero.
Remarks
This is useful for input idle detection
Remember... testing & debugging are always part of programming ...so exterminate those stinking bugs
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I'm just curious, where does this comes from ? the online MSDN ? I do not have it in my 2000 version. 
~RaGE();
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It is in the later MSDN libraries and on-line!  I know it isn't in the standard MSDN libs that come with VC6.
Ant.
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Here is a link to the entire article. However, if you are using Windows 9x or NT, you'll need to employ a system-wide hook. See this article for details.
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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GetLastInputInfo not working properly in Windows 2000
Error: Undefined Identifier for GetLastInputInfo
please explain
Jack
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This is what MSDN says:
Requirements
Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows NT 3.1 or later.
Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later.
Header: Declared in Winuser.h; include Windows.h.
Library: Use user32.lib.
And what do you mean by not working properly?
Can u give details on the improper working?
...Avenger
Remember... testing & debugging are always part of programming ...so exterminate those stinking bugs
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avenger_sb25 wrote:
Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later.
The function is not available on Windows 9x platforms.
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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Please provide a code snippet of how you are using the function.
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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I am using Windows 2000 here is the snippet
#include "stdafx.h"
int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
LASTINPUTINFO plii;
memset(&plii,0,sizeof(plii));
plii.cbSize = size(plii);
if(GetLastInputInfo(&plii ))
{
//code here
}
return 0;
}
Even if I declare the LASTINPUTINFO structure in the header file its not working
Sandy
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Well, since what you have is not a true Windows application (e.g., you need a window and a message pump), I'm not sure how GetLastInputInfo() is supposed to behave. I may be incorrect, but it wouldn't hurt to at least provide the minimum.
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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Even if I provide a window and check the messages it gives
a error saying "Undefined Identifier for "GetLastInputInfo()
Jack
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Is this a compiler, linker, or run-time error?
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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What other files are being #included in stdafx.h?
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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Only the windows.h and the winuser.h
Jack
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Have you defined _WIN32_WINNT? If not, look at line #5040 of winuser.h.
"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)
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Hi CPians!
I have a MFC Dlg app, that should be able to fire up an unlimited amount of dialogs when clicking on one button (e.g. one dialog per click). In the OnClickButton handler, if i run my code that way :
CMyDialog mydlg;
mydlg.DoModal();
the main dialog freezes after the first child dialog is started (of course, that's the way modal dialog are meant to work).
If I do it this way :
CMyDialog mydlg;
mydlg.Create(...);
mydlg.Show();
the dialog is closed as soon as I leave the OnClickButton, that is almost instantly, since mydlg is a local variable in that function.
So what I intend to do is launch the dialog modal in a working thread, but this semms to be a bit paradoxical to me. Is it any better solution, or is this the ultimate one ?
Thanks a lot
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Rage wrote:
CMyDialog mydlg;mydlg.Create(...);mydlg.Show();
the dialog is closed as soon as I leave the onclickButton, that is almost instantly, since mydlg is a local variable in that function.
why don't you declare CMyDialog as member variable or global variable or static variable, that will work exactly as you intend.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg
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mailMonty wrote:
why don't you declare CMyDialog as member variable or global variable or static variable, that will work exactly as you intend.
Because I do not know how many of them I will need (see in my post, you fire up a dlg every time you click on a button). So declaring them as global would require a dynamical global array of dlgs 
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mailMonty wrote:
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg
very good sig 
~RaGE();
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