Screensaver Type timeout

[killroy]

Greetings everyone,

Quick one, has AutoIT got the ability to run as a background process which would wait for a timeout (similar to that of a screensaver).

Let me try and give you an example,

I require a background process which will run an application after a specified time has passed if there is no mouse movement. I need to run a Powerpoint presentation as a screensaver on my network and after spending the morning and afternoon searching through websites for the answer it suddenly dawned on me to try the brilliant AutoIT!

I look forward to your reponses with great anticipation.

Thank you.

Byron

[w0uter]

you can loop until MouseGetPos() returns the same result.

[killroy]

you can loop until MouseGetPos() returns the same result.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey, sorry to be a lazy boy but would you mind giving me a little tiny example. I will take what you give me and go from there, I hope

[jdickens]

$TimeOut_ms = 5 * 1000 * 60 ; 5 minutes
Global $CurMsPos
$TRUE = 1

Func TimeOutAction()
    While 1
        If $CurMsPos <> MouseGetPos() Then
            Return $TRUE
        EndIf
    ;Do TimeOut behavior
        Sleep(100) ;If TimeOut behavior does not provide necessary delay
    WEnd
EndFunc  ;==>TimeOutAction

While 1
    $CurMsPos = MouseGetPos()
    Sleep($TimeOut_ms)
    If $CurMsPos = MouseGetPos() Then
        If TimeOutAction() Then
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

not tested

J