Timeout Screensaver [but not a "screensaver"] within a Director projector

I use the 'timeout' handler quite often...

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on prepareMovie
set the timeoutlength to 10 * 60 --10 is the number of seconds
end


on timeOut
--do your thing here...
alert "I've just timed out!!"
end
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The timeout resets to 0 everytime there is a mouse click or a keypress (note
that moving the mouse does not reset this though)

Obviously, within 'on timeOut' you could do other things - I usually have
the movie jump to a 'screensaver' marker. This marker could have say a flash
animation urging the user to click or press a key. then use 'on mouseDown'
or 'on KeyDown' to go to the main menu.


A simple option, but may be worth doing a search in the help for 'timeout'


Tim.





Bateman" <markbateman@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:edr3nv$fkg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Morning all,
>
> I'm currently in the process of producing a touch-screen kiosk with
> Director -- the client has requested that they would like the presentation
> to automatically go back to the main menu after a period of inactivity,
> ie. the viewer has left the kiosk and its current position is within one
> of the sub-sections.
>
> Together with this the client would also like a logo animation to occur
> after a further period of inactivity; almost acting as a screen saver but
> used in the hope that the movement would attract further viewers.
>
> So this incurs to states of inactivity; how difficult is this to achieve
> as I've no real experience of "time outs", etc.?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Regards, Mark.
>
>

Thanks guys -- I'm going to investigate both approaches in more detail.
Unfortunately the final kiosk has gone out without such functionality
enabled as I simply didn't have the time to test as thoroughly as I wished.

Thanks again.

Regards, Mark.