Page Jump Pronto Script Needed!

Anyone could help with the following requirement?

Requirement
If the user leave the activity page without any activity, pronto should be able to jump from the activity page back to home page after predefined few seconds.

Would appreciate if someone could helps me out on this.

I don't really get it. Activity page without activity? It's like divide by zero.

Please refine.

very sorry! it means when the user log into one of the activity page, but he just leave it there without doing anything (e.g. din press any button n etc.) ..

Uh this will be a "long" one.

What you can do:

-declare a variable in the activity:
var anythingTouched = false;

-make a check function:
function checkIfAnythingPressed () {
if (!anythingTouched) {
--> Execute a jump to wherever you want
}
}

- schedule a the check function:
scheduleAfter(5*1000, checkIfAnythingPressed);

- add, to every button's onpress action:
anythingTouched = true;

This way if you don't touch anything (the value remains false), a jump will be performed somewhere else, otherwise it won't be.

Search the forums hot to jump pages from prontoscript.

I strongly suggest that you modify your requirements, otherwise, you will be doing the following on each and every button you put on a page in said activity.

anythingTouched = true;
this.scheduleActions();

Furthermore, as you are executing ProntoScript on each and every button, you will find that buttons that need to be press and hold may not work quite as smoothly. If you have an IR code that must be transmitted for a specific period of time via a hold, you may find that it does not work the way you'd like.

deric.lts,

I agree with BluPhenix and Lyndel McGee, this will be messy and I agree with Lyndel McGee, it can be problematic.

While operating the Pronto, I'm not sure that I would like this functionality, but it could have some utility for an adjustment page, such as setting surround modes.

My approach would be much messier, but there would be relatively few side effects. Rather than directly emit IR commands, I would push every button press into a queue and IR commands would be issued from the Queue that is regularly checked and processed. If there was no Queue activity for a period, then jump.

As I say, this is a mess to get going, but once you have the Queue operating, a new world of interaction possibilities will open.

Programming all user interactions through a queue is the way I do all of my Pronto postscript work and I strongly recommend it. I also do all TCP/UDP work asynchronously thereby ensuring that the user will also find the Pronto responsive and never losing a user touch. Lastly I run all pages in a page repeat loop (100 ms is what I use). For some pages the page loop is as simple as calling a basic function implementing a switch statement to examine the current state and take actions.

The loop allows for a BUSY state while TCPIP is in process, DONE to allow for TCPIP Messagepost processing if not done at socket close, and an IDLE state where such things as the user queue are checked. All sorts of variants can be added to the switch function and there can be several different functions for different pages.

The loop concept turns out to make various animations such as marqueeing a text string or rotating an hour glass symbol to indicate "Busy" simple to implement.

I'm not a ProntoScript programmer, so excuse me if I'm way off base, but it occurs to me that the backlight timeout is already controlled by some function that knows if no button has been pressed for a period of time. Is it feasible to tap into that function, or to have the action of dimming the backlight trigger the jump home?

Sure.

Uuse the onSleep method.

Note that onSleep is called from activity scope (javascript 'this' while inside the function will be the current activity object). If you want to do anything with the current page, you must do CF.page() and check to see if the return from this function is non-null. If non-null, you can then access any of the widgets on the page.

Set the time it goes to sleep. Record the time it goes to sleep. Then onSleep.
On Wake .If the time is greater then five minutes then Jump to home.