Getting+the+User+Idle+time

//by Richard Russell, October 2011//

The **User Idle** time is the time since the user last interacted with the PC, for example by pressing a key or moving the mouse. It's useful for things like determining when to display a screensaver.

It's quite easy to get the User Idle time in BBC BASIC: code format="bb4w" DIM lii{cbSize%, dwTime%} lii.cbSize% = DIM(lii{}) SYS "GetLastInputInfo", lii{} SYS "GetTickCount" TO tick% PRINT "User Idle time is "; (tick%-lii.dwTime%)/1000 " seconds" code