Re: System Idle Time
Re: System Idle Time
- Subject: Re: System Idle Time
- From: Tom Harrington <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:51:45 -0600
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:06:38 +0000, Mike Lewis <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello,
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How can I get the system idle time in Cocoa? I want to know how long the
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user has been away from computer. I tried using a timer called
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EventLoopIdleTimer in Carbon, which works fine, but it only gives me the
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idle time of my application. I also read something about HIDIdleTime in the
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archives, but couldn't find any source code examples on how to use it.
In Cocoa? Beats me. But it can be done with IOKit and Core
Foundation. There's some example code doing this at
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http://archive.macosxlabs.org/tools_and_scripts/script_archive/scripts/idle/stanford_university/idler.html>.
For some reason they've got a JPG of the source instead of text, but
you'll get the idea.
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Tom Harrington
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