Detect scroll activity (when LC is not frontmost)

[Mike Bonner]

Is this a windows only app? If so I have the beginnings of an idea. The
short version is inserting a scheduled task using schtask.exe that only
fires after a period of idle.  The task could be to simply write the time
to a file.  Perhaps after a couple of minutes of idle. Then you can have
your app check that file, and do the math to figure out how long the user
has been active since the last idle write.  If this works, it would remove
the need for checking the keys down, or scrolling or anything of that
nature.

Not sure yet if it will work, but I'll experiment some.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Terry Vogelaar <tvogelaar at de-mare.nl>
wrote:

> Thank you, Craig and Mike, for your responses. But the problem with the
> rawKeyDown message is that the mouse needs to be in the LiveCode window. I
> can scroll in my web browser all day and LiveCode wouldn’t ever notice. So
> unfortunately this is not what I’m looking for.
>
> Doing a feature request for a rawkeysdown function sounds like a good idea.
>
> Maybe there is something to the idea of hooking in to the system timer.
> Although I wouldn’t know how to do that either.
>
>
> With kind regards,
> Terry Vogelaar
>
> > Op 23 dec. 2016, om 12:00 heeft use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com
> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > From: dunbarx <dunbarx at aol.com <mailto:dunbarx at aol.com>>
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > The "rawKeyDown" message can detect scrollWheel activity. The results
> are:
> >
> > 65308 for a down scroll
> > 65309 for an up scroll.
> >
> > Craig Newman
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > From: Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com <mailto:bonnmike at gmail.com>>
> >
> > I think the scroll wheel sends arrow keys, but since there isn't a
> > "rawkeysdown()" function to match the keysdown() function it would
> require
> > either an external or the function to be added with livecode builder. At
> > which point I wonder.. Is there a way to hook in to the system timer?
> (the
> > one that decides if the screensaver/sleep mode should activate.)
> >
> > No clue how to access such a thing. (Could go with the simple method and
> > request a rawkeysdown() feature)
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Actually, nevermind, the scroll wheel on my system doesn't trigger an
> arrow
> > key press, but the arrowkeys are indeed picked up by keysdown. My
> > apologies. :)
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > From: dunbarx <dunbarx at aol.com <mailto:dunbarx at aol.com>>
> >
> > I assume this discussion is still intact.
> >
> > The "rawkeyDown" message may be trapped as follows:
> >
> > on rawkeydown tkey
> >   if  tkey = 65308 then doScrollDownStuff
> >   else doScrollUpStuff
> > end rawkeydown
>
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