i've figured out a way to do this. posting the code for newsgroup benefit
<body onmousedown = "window_activity()" onkeypress="window_activity()">
<script>
var timerPROMPT = 0;
var timerCLOSE = 0;
function EndApp(){
RateDeck.style.display = "none"
spDeck.style.display = "none"
}
function StopTiming(){
if(timerPROMPT > 0)
window.clearTimeout(timerPROMPT)
if (confirm('Due to inactivity, your session is about to time out.')
== 1)
{
if(timerCLOSE > 0)
window.clearTimeout(timerCLOSE)
timerPROMPT = window.setTimeout("StopTiming()",5000);
timerCLOSE = window.setTimeout("EndApp()",8000);
}
else
{
EndApp();
}
}
function window_activity() {
if(timerPROMPT > 0)
window.clearTimeout(timerPROMPT)
if(timerCLOSE > 0)
window.clearTimeout(timerCLOSE)
timerPROMPT = window.setTimeout("StopTiming()",5000);
timerCLOSE = window.setTimeout("EndApp()",6000);
}
"Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_me_not@hotmail_no_spamhotmail.com > wrote in
message news:OW**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'd like to prompt the user that their session is about to time out and
give them the option to keep the session alive. Any ideas?
By the time the session end event fires, the session is already ended so
putting up a javascript box won't make sense since there is no session.
I thought of client side which is good in theory but the only thing i
could find was setwindow timeout and it does not measure inactivity, it is a
sleep function.
