How to dedect activity?

[E1M1 8]

_IsPressed detects given keypress but how to dedect anykey/mouse move? I want to close my window as soon as user presses any key/moves mouse.

[jaberwacky 327]

Query the mouse location and then compare for changes?

[E1M1 8]

Thanks. Now close my app for mouse move I just would like to close for keypress too. At the moment only esc closes it.

[Drifter 0]

unfortunately all i can think of is going through all possible key combos and combining them with the "Or" operator, this way any key press would register.

This method is messy, but it would work. You could probably do it in steps or build a seperate function like keyIsPressed() that returns a boolean value.

I wonder if anyone else has a simpler option...

Edited August 13, 2010 by Drifter

[jaberwacky 327]

Here's somethig I've been fiddling with lately. You may find it useful. Keep in mind that I'm new to using DLLs and whatnot.

Link to the MSDN article: GetKeyboardState

Global Const $byteArray = DllStructCreate("BYTE lpKeyState[256]")
Global Const $lpKeyState = DllStructGetPtr($byteArray)

DllCall("User32.dll", "bool", "GetKeyboardState", "ptr", $lpKeyState)

Global Const $KeyboardState = DllStructGetData($byteArray, "lpKeyState")

Global $j = 1

For $i = 3 To StringLen($KeyboardState) Step 4
    ConsoleWrite($j & " " & StringMid($KeyboardState, $i, 4) & @LF)
    $j += 1
Next

Edited August 13, 2010 by jaberwocky6669

[seandisanti 6]

unfortunately all i can think of is going through all possible key combos and combining them with the "Or" operator, this way any key press would register.

This method is messy, but it would work. You could probably do it in steps or build a seperate function like keyIsPressed() that returns a boolean value.

I wonder if anyone else has a simpler option...

this has been addressed before... search for "any key pressed" i think will find it

[E1M1 8]

none of solutions above worked, but help file helped me again, I modified _WinAPI_SetWindowsHookEx example.

[PsaltyDS 39]

Did you try _Timer_GetIdleTime()? The time resets with any activity on mouse or keyboard.