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Re: Notification for Idle Time?
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Re: Notification for Idle Time?


  • Subject: Re: Notification for Idle Time?
  • From: Christopher Hickman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:24:42 -0800

On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, at 06:23AM, "Gregory Weston" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Christopher Hickman wrote:
>
>> I'm working on something that needs to know when the computer has
>> had no user input for a period of time.  How does the Screensaver
>> Engine know when the user has been idle long enough to start?  I
>> need to do the same thing and I can't find any Cocoa methods that
>> provide that information.
>>
>> I found something that suggested I could get this information from
>> IOKit, but it looks like I'd have to constantly poll the idle time,
>> and polling sucks.  Anyone know if there is an NSNotification I can
>> receive for idle times?
>
>
>Not an NSNotification.
>
>InstallEventLoopIdleTimer
>
><http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/
>Carbon_Event_Manager/Tasks/chapter_3_section_11.html>
><http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
>Carbon_Event_Manager_Ref/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/
>InstallEventLoopIdleTimer>

Does anybody know if it is possible to get an EventLoopRef from my NSApplication's run loop?  Greg found something that does exactly what I need, but it requires that I specify the run loop "the Carbon way" as an EventLoopRef.  I just don't know how to reference my application's run loop as a Carbon EventLoopRef.
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