Re^2: Detecting idle time on Mac

Thanks Fletch, looks like that will work! For some reason I didn't think to search for OS X; I had been searching for Mac keyboard idle time and similar, which strangely turned up nothing.

Does anybody happen to know of a way to get this information without forking a copy of ioreg?

Thanks!

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Re^3: Detecting idle time on Mac by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 14, 2006 at 14:36 UTC
There should be some way to access it through C and/or ObjectiveC, but exactly how is a different question. The Apple Developer Site has a pretty good set of documentation; you'll probably want to start looking here for stuff on I/O Kit and the HID related frameworks. Unless this is something that's going to poll constantly I'd just cheat and run `ioreg`; it only takes six hundredths of a second to run according to my shell's `time`ing.	[reply]

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Re^3: Detecting idle time on Mac
by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 14, 2006 at 14:36 UTC

There should be some way to access it through C and/or ObjectiveC, but exactly how is a different question. The Apple Developer Site has a pretty good set of documentation; you'll probably want to start looking here for stuff on I/O Kit and the HID related frameworks.

Unless this is something that's going to poll constantly I'd just cheat and run ioreg; it only takes six hundredths of a second to run according to my shell's timeing.

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