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How do i set an inactivity timer (based on mousemove event) from a parent frame?
Aug 25th, 2001 09:29
Tony Crosby, David Majchrzak,
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function post_action(){
// *** DO SOMETHING *** \\
alert("You Are Innactive");
}
var tid, time, action;
function setInactivityTimer (time, action, repeat) {
window.time = time;
window.action = action;
window.repeat = repeat;
if (tid)
clearTimeout(tid);
if (document.layers)
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE | Event.KEYUP);
document.onmousemove = document.onkeyup =
function (evt) {
setInactivityTimer(window.time, window.action, window.repeat);
return true;
};
if (repeat)
action += '; setInactivityTimer('
+ time + ', "' + action + '", ' + repeat + ');';
else
action += '; clearEvents();';
tid = setTimeout(action, time);
}
function clearEvents() {
if (document.layers)
document.releaseEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE | Event.KEYUP);
document.onmousemove = document.onkeyup = null;
}
setInactivityTimer(2000, 'post_action();', true);
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Change alert("you are innactive") to you code to be carried out when
the timer is finished.
To change the time of innactivity allowed before the code is set off
change
setInactivityTimer(2000, 'post_action();', true);
2000 being the time in miliseconds.
Tony
