Re: [wxlua-users] WxApp::FilterEvent available in wxlua?

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> If you can you explain what you are trying to do I might be able to help.
>
> Sure; I'm trying to detect idle time in the application when a user
> doesn't do any activity for X seconds. Any activity is defined as
> EVT_MOTION and EVT_KEY_DOWN events, but I'll settle for EVT_KEY_DOWN
> if it's difficult to track both. I don't want to keep adding my
> handlers to all the components I have and am looking for as few places
> to modify as possible.

How about something like this?
http://utmostlogic.wordpress.com/tag/wxwidgets/

A wxIdleEvent event is sent after every event or batch of events so
you are guaranteed to get it. You could be "tricked" that a user was
active with your app if a different window is dragged on top and a
paint event sent, but does that matter?

Regards,
    John