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Re: Inactivity Timer

Subject: Re: Inactivity Timer
From: Rob Keniger <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:32:32 +1000

On 25/11/2009, at 8:37 AM, Kevin wrote:

> I needed to implement an inactivity timer in my Cocoa App and did so my subclassing NSApplication and overriding sendEvent: to start and stop a timer. Although it works most of the time, every once in a while my timer gets fired as I'm typing text into a text field or interacting with some other control like scrolling a table view.


You might want to look at Uli Kusterer's UKIdleTimer, which is a Cocoa wrapper around the Carbon EventLoopIdleTimer, which is a system-provided timer that only fires when the machine has been idle for a specified amount of time:

http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/sourcecode.htm#UKIdleTimer

--
Rob Keniger



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