Create a way to count down a dynamic number of minutes and/or seconds that a user is idle in my application and fire off an event when done.

A developer object that counts down activity on the application or any object in the application or multiple objects. When activity is seen the object resets the timer and starts over couting down.

An example appliction is available. You can right click and view view source to see the view source of the application and download the whole example.

The IdleUserObject class extends the container class. It will be used to store the watched objects and reset the timer when there is a mouseover or keydown in the objects being watched.

So, let's get down to the skinny of the IdleUserObject.

I have been using ActionScript and Flex for a short time, so help me out if you see something obvious that I should fix.

"StartWatch" - Starts the timer at the intervals specified.

"StopWatch" - Stops the timer and fires the timedout event.

"addListener" - Adds a listener object to the list.

"removeListener" - Removes a listener object from the list.

"timedout" - dispatches when the StopWatch method is called or when the timer times out which ever comes first.

"active" - dispatches at every iteration of the clock specified by StartWatch method.

1) Create a timeout object using the IdleUserObject class.
<adartautils:idleuserobject id="timeout">

2) Assign actions to the events, so we know when they are fired.
<adartautils:idleuserobject id="timeout" active="txtHeader.text='Running Stop Watch'" timedout="TimedOut()">
</adartautils:idleuserobject>

3) Add some code to our application that will watch on an object "tiObject". The timer will watch for 15 seconds (0.25 minutes) and will tick every 0 minutes and 1 second.
timeout.addListener(tiObject);
timeout.StartWatch(0.25,0,1);