Detecting non-activitiy in swing application

Question

Hi there,
I need to know how do I detect non-activity in my swing application, let's say if the user doesnt do anything in 10min I want to do "something".
Is that possible? Maybe using a listener to the whole application or something like that?
Thanks

Answer 1

You can take a look at my [Application Inactivity|http://www.camick.com/java/blog.html?name=application-inactivity] link which has an example that uses an AWTEventListener along with a Swing Timer to provide a solution.
Take a look at java.awt.event.AWTEventListener and java.awt.event.AWTEventListenerProxy.When I use an AWTEventListener, I use code like the following:
long eventMask = AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK + AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK;
AWTEventListener listener = someListener();
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( listener, eventMask);When I looked at the API for AWTEventListenerProxy I see that you construct it with an eventMask and an AWTEeventListener.
So how do you use this class? Do you add it to the toolkit? If so, then why do you specify the eventMask twice?
Edited by: camickr on Oct 24, 2008 9:50 PM