boogieoompa Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I am trying to write a program that monitors what programs a person is using (for a PI project), ie computer X spends 45 minutes in excel, 30 minutes in office, 4 hours in freecell etc... however I dont want it to count the time when the person is away from the desk. Currently I have a program that checks for mouse movement every 5 seconds and checks for vowls being used (key loggerish). The problem is I DONT want to use a keylogger, for various reasons I'm sure everyone understands. Ultimatly I would like to replicate whatever windows uses to monitor for the screen saver, basically if there is no input every 5 seconds record the time and the active window. Any suggestions on how to do this cleanly (specifically without monitoring individual key strokes)? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Maybe function _Timer_GetIdleTime does what you need: Returns the number of ticks since last user activity (i.e. KYBD/Mouse) Please check the help file: User Defined Functions Reference -> Timers management -> _Timer_GetIdleTime. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieoompa Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Fantastic! Thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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