Mouse movement detect

[lloydi]

I need a little help with a timer function. It needs to be possible to reset the timer if:

* mouse movement is detected
* any key is pressed

I have experimented with onMouseMove attached to the BODY tag, but it constantly triggered the action required (an alert, for the initial purposes of testing) - I got into a loop and could never get out!

Has anyone used anything like this before? And if so, could you help?

Mille grazie

[siphilp]

If you were using .NET then this would be easy to implement. Never say a script that does what your talking about. I will put my feelers out and let you know what i get


Si

[Maelstrom]

You are looking at some advanced event handling techniques and yes javascript should be able to pull that off. (without .net)

http://www.webreference.com/js/column74/

Well they used to have around 5 of them and they covered every detail. Hmmm...

http://www.webreference.com/js/column18/
http://www.webreference.com/js/column19/

Those may help. Event handling in javascript is excellent but once again the cross browser aspect makes it an irratating concept.

[meztec]

Here's something from Dan Steinman' DHTML API about capturing the mouse x/y position.

Don't know if it would be possible to grab the x and y and then if that changes do what you need to do?

http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo/en/mouseevents.html