# How to check whether game is idle

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-check-whether-game-is-idle/213801>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 23, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-check-whether-game-is-idle/213801 "2007-01-23T11:09:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jyothi\_hk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jyothi\_hk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jyothi_hk)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-check-whether-game-is-idle/213801/1 "2007-01-23T11:09:57Z")

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hi,

I want to know how to check whether a game is idle for last few minutes/seconds.  
means, for last 2 minutes no key is pressed then my flash movie goes to idle mode, by pressing a key it should resume back.

Regards,  
Jyothi