>Hi,
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>How can I determine if the system has been Idle for a while? I have a VFP8 application that should minimize if the user hasn't worked for a while, and upon activation display the Application's logon form.
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>Anybody some idea's?
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>TIA,
>

Stefan,
There is nothing in VFP by default to handle this. You have to build your own.

The basic concept:
1. Store time of last user action whenever they do something. You could have code in your subclasses (form, button, textbox, ...) when the control was used interactively (MouseMove, Click, InteractiveChange, etc.) to store this information as a global variable or a property of something your application object.
2. Create a system timer that checks this property against the current time. If the difference is greater than some value, then you can "logout" the current user. Or you could simply minimize the application, and display a modal login form in front of everything. If the user doesn't log back in, the form doesn't go away and they can't do anything.

HTH.