recording active windows for time tracking

[nicoco]

Hi,

I've done small useless stuff with auto-it before,

now I'd like to do something that would help me track my time :

how much time I spend reading/writing emails

how much time I spend on the web browser

how much time I spend ... actually working

So my idea is to log in a file when the title of a window when it becomes active, and inactive

then I'll be able to make statistics

any leads on how to do this?

if it's not possible do you know any software that does this?

Thanks,

Nicoco

[SmOke_N]

Hi,

I've done small useless stuff with auto-it before,

now I'd like to do something that would help me track my time :

how much time I spend reading/writing emails

how much time I spend on the web browser

how much time I spend ... actually working

So my idea is to log in a file when the title of a window when it becomes active, and inactive

then I'll be able to make statistics

any leads on how to do this?

if it's not possible do you know any software that does this?

Thanks,

Nicoco

Be careful to word what you mean specifically here... Do you want 'Active' Windows Logged or When a Visible Window Exists?

[nicoco]

Be careful to word what you mean specifically here... Do you want 'Active' Windows Logged or When a Visible Window Exists?

By active window I mean the window that has the focus.

Example : Now I'm replying to this message in firefox, when i'll do alt-tab to switch back to crimson editor, I'd like to have a new line in a log file with the time and 'CrimsonEditor' (and the full title for info on what i'm working on), then when I switch to outlook, another line in the log file, etc.

At the end of the day, I'd like to see something like

start;stop;app;full title

10-mar-2006@10:15:51;10-mar-2006@10:16:12;Outlook;blah

10-mar-2006@10:16:12;10-mar-2006@10:45:08;Firefox;AutoIt Forums

10-mar-2006@10:45:08;10-mar-2006@10:55:18;CrimsonEditor;C:\dev\src\Main.java

10-mar-2006@10:55:18;10-mar-2006@10:56:58;Firefox;New York Times

etc...

Now, what I want to find out is how to detect the change of window focus, the rest is not very difficult

Edited March 10, 2006 by nicoco

[MHz]

Oh, dunno about this timing stuff.

Have a play with this.

While 1
    $title = WinGetTitle('')
    MsgBox(0, '', $title)
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd

[SmOke_N]

This needs some tweaking:

Global $Begin = 1, $ActiveTime = '', $TrapTitle = '', $DeActiveTime = ''
HotKeySet('{ESC}', 'EXITTRACK')
AdlibEnable('KeepTrackOfWindows', 250)

While 1
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd

Func KeepTrackOfWindows()
    Local $w_WinList = WinList()
    For $i = 1 to $w_WinList[0][0]
        If $w_WinList[$i][0] <> "" AND BitAnd(WinGetState($w_WinList[$i][1]), 10) Then 
            $ActiveWindow = $w_WinList[$i][0]
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
    If $Begin = 1 Then
        $TrapTitle = $ActiveWindow
        $ActiveTime = @MDAY & '-' & @MON & '-' & @YEAR _ 
        & '@' & @HOUR & ':' & @MIN & ':' & @SEC & ';'
        $Begin = 2
    ElseIf $TrapTitle <> $ActiveWindow And $TrapTitle <> '' Then
        $DeActiveTime = @MDAY & '-' & @MON & '-' & @YEAR _ 
        & '@' & @HOUR & ':' & @MIN & ':' & @SEC & ';' & $TrapTitle
        FileWrite(@DesktopDir & '\testing.txt', $ActiveTime & $DeActiveTime & @CRLF)
        $TrapTitle = ''
        $Begin = 1
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func EXITTRACK()
    Exit
EndFunc

Edited March 10, 2006 by SmOke_N

[nicoco]

brilliant!

a thousand thanks!