idle mode sceensaver time out for android app intrractive

[oro1985]

Hi, I'm building an interactive station. with different menus and videos. I have a startup screen that is a movieclip symbol with a video playing. I need help creating a timeout code to return the app to the initial state after 3 minutes of inactivity (no mouse movement or gestures).

will appreciatte any help.

thanks!

[ClayUUID]

Do you're saying you want to set some sort of timeout?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/setTimeout

[oro1985]

yes, when the interactive app is incative for 3 minutes (no touch gestutre or mouse events) should go to initial state. or make a movieclip visible.

[ClayUUID]

Okay. You saw the link I posted... right?

[oro1985]

yes , im trying to follow the info but nort sure how to integrate all ino a code that works. I dont have too mouch knowledge in coding.

any help on how to creat the code that works will be appreciated.

Im working on Animate - AIR for Android

thanks!

[ClayUUID]

The same function exists in AS3.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/utils/package.html

[oro1985]

thanks, sill having trouble to understand.

i tryed a couple of codes to see if i can understan how it works.  but i get an error:

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer_1', Frame 1, Line 1, Column 9 1037: Packages cannot be nested.

if you could point me directly to a code that would work for air android.

thanks

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

The NativeApplication class has some really useful methods to handle these kind of situations. Have you tried it? You could write something like this:

import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;
import flash.events.Event;

function userIdleHandler(e:Event):void
{
	trace("back");
	// your reset code here
}

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.idleThreshold = 180; // time in seconds
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.USER_IDLE, userIdleHandler);

Please let us know if this works for you.

Regards,

JC

[oro1985]

Thanks JC!

the code works perfectly when tested in animate (using air debug launcher(mobile))

but when i publish APK and install on android the timeout doesnt work.

could irt be a problem with the publish settings?

thanks!

o

[JoãoCésar · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure why.

Animate isn't recognizing my device so I cannot debug the app.

In this case let's go with the setTimeout approach. As an example, I have a very simple app that has two frames: the first one containing a start button and in the second one a timeout of 5 seconds is set and if the user doesn't touch the screen within 5 seconds the timeline returns to frame 1. The code is like this:

Frame 1:

import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.utils.clearTimeout;
import flash.utils.setTimeout;

var delay:uint = 5000;
var timeout:uint = 0;

function main():void
{
	stop();
	startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, start);
	stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, wake);	
}

function start(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	gotoAndStop(2);
}

function wake(e:MouseEvent):void
{
	clearTimeout(timeout);
	timeout = setTimeout(idle, delay);
}

function idle():void
{
	gotoAndStop(1);
}

main();

Frame 2:

wake(null);

The FLA / source / code / files is in here:

https://github.com/joao-cesar/adobe/tree/master/animate%20cc/as3/idle

I hope it helps.

Regards,

JC

[oro1985]

Thanks JC!!

this workd perfectly.  i adapted the code to my proyect and everything works fine.

thanks !!!!

o

[JoãoCésar]

That's awesome! You're welcome!

[mauricem91902475]

Hi JC,
Is it possible to adapt this code so it will work for Html 5 Canvas. I am creating a similar online intractive app in web page.
Thanks
M