>>I'm looking for a way of calculating the time a PC has been left idle (ie no keyboard / mouse action) in a VFP 8.0 environment. I'm sure is probably easily acheived, but just wondered if someone could give me a quick fix.
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>The way the VFP-based commercial framework I use does it is each type of object (subclassed) has a timer reset in its Interactive and Programmatic Change methods. Therefore a VFP timer is always running and always being reset when you press a key. When the timer reaches a set limit, the app itself can shutdown, or just log the user out or whatever you want.
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>HTH

By that, do you mean that you coded in a reset timer function into each control, or is it done automatically by FoxPro ??