# Mouse/User Inactivity Timer help please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-user-inactivity-timer-help-please/244998>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 24, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-user-inactivity-timer-help-please/244998 "2007-11-24T23:13:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![akrantz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@akrantz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/akrantz)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-user-inactivity-timer-help-please/244998/1 "2007-11-24T23:13:59Z")

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Hey all,  
forgive me if the solution to this is basic, I am a designer by education and self taught AS programmer just beginning to adapt to AS3. What I am trying to do is detect when a user has been inactive, i.e. has not clicked the mouse in some time. I am not really sure where to being so any advice would be helpful. Thanks and happy holidays!  
-A