OK, I have a problem.  I need to monitor the system idle time and do something
at a certain time period.  That is, if the user does not move the mouse or
press any keys for oh, say 15 minutes, then I need to do something.  I know
the system keeps track of the idle time for launching screen savers, but it
does not appear that I can query the system for how long it has been idle.  So
the other option that I can see at this point is to somehow monitor the system
message pump for user input.  However I do not know exactly where I can do
this.  Anyone have some ideas?

My development system is Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (DEC Alpha).
The software is being developed to run on an NT 4.0 Server (DEC Alpha), using
Visual C++ 5.0.

Thanks!

Wayne Rigby

Jason Boehle

The best I have been able to do is to override the
CWinApp::PreTranslateMessage() method.  At this point, none of the mouse
moves, button clicks and keystrokes have been stripped off or handled at this
point.  Thus I can get a very good indication of how little the user is using
the current application.  However the message queue does not contain any user
input events which do not belong to the application.  I.e., any user input to
other applications or NT itself cannot be monitored this way, that I can tell
anyways.  So, does anyone have an idea on how to monitor system-wide messages?

Thanks for the input, keep it coming.

Wayne Rigby