Time Out

[ggogis]

is there a way to get a movie to perform an action after a vertain amount of time of no activity. basically what i would like to do is if a user is on a certain part of my swf and they do not move the mouse for x amount of time, i want the actionscript to the send them to a new page.html

hope this makes sense?

thanks for your help.

[Dricciotti]

Keep track of each time the mouse moves and then compare that with the current time in the movie. You could have something like this:

code:

---

lastMouseMove = getTimer();

_root.onMouseMove = function()

{

	lastMouseMove = getTimer();

}

_root.onEnterFrame = function()

{

	if(getTimer() - lastMouseMove > 5*1000)

	{

		// check if mouse hasnt moved in 5 seconds

		trace("Expire!");

		delete _root.onEnterFrame;

	}

}

---

[ggogis]

Thanks!