Detect User Idle Time or Inactivity (MouseEvent)

[DeeViens]

How to do this in html5 canvas ?

var _timer: Timer = new Timer(10000);
function Start(): void {
_timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, ShowMsg, false, 0, true);
_timer.start();
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, StopTimer, false, 0, true);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, StopTimer, false, 0, true);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, StopTimer, false, 0, true);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, StopTimer, false, 0, true);
}
function ShowMsg(e: TimerEvent): void {
trace("There is no activity");
}
function StopTimer(e: MouseEvent): void {
_timer.stop();
_timer.start();
}
Start();

Please help! Thanks.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

stage.addEventListener("stagemousemove",f.bind(this))

function ShowMsg() { 

alert("There is no activity"); 

} 

function f() { 

clearInterval(this.to);

this.to = setTimeout(ShowMsg, 10000);

}

[hclmed0]

Hello, I gather this works for HTML5, but in AS3 it throws an error at stage.addEventListener("stagemousemove",f.bind(this)):

"Scene 1, Layer 'Actions', Frame 1, Line 2, Column 43 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method bind through a reference with static type Function."
is there a version compatible with AS3

[kglad]

this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,f)

[hclmed0]

Thanks for this reply, (and your many others). This resolved the compile error, but produces the runtime error:

"ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on TestApp_fla::MainTimeline/f(). Expected 0, got 1.". Not sure why it thinks it's getting an argument for f().

From the following code:

this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,f)

function GoHome() {

gotoAndStop(1);

}

function f() {

clearInterval(this.to);

this.to = setTimeout(GoHome, 10000);

}

[kglad]

use

function f(e:MouseEvent):void{
// code

}

[hclmed0]

Perfect. This is such an elegant solution for the common need for an idle timeout. I hope all the other threads asking about this can find your post. Thank you.

[kglad]

you're welcome