WPF inactivity and activity

Question

I\'m trying to handle user inactivity and activity in a WPF application to fade some stuff in and out. After a lot of research, I decided to go with the (at least in my opin

Answer 1

I could figure out what caused the described behaviour.

For example when the Visibility of a control is changed, the PreProcessInput event is raised with PreProcessInputEventArgs.StagingItem.Input of the type InputReportEventArgs.

The behaviour can be avoided by filtering the InputEventArgs for the types MouseEventArgs and KeyboardEventArgs in the OnActivity event and to verify if no mouse button is pressed and the position of the cursor is still the same as the application became inactive.

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    private readonly DispatcherTimer _activityTimer;
    private Point _inactiveMousePosition = new Point(0, 0);

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        InputManager.Current.PreProcessInput += OnActivity;
        _activityTimer = new DispatcherTimer { Interval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5), IsEnabled = true };
        _activityTimer.Tick += OnInactivity;
    }

    void OnInactivity(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // remember mouse position
        _inactiveMousePosition = Mouse.GetPosition(MainGrid);

        // set UI on inactivity
        rectangle.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
    }

    void OnActivity(object sender, PreProcessInputEventArgs e)
    {
        InputEventArgs inputEventArgs = e.StagingItem.Input;

        if (inputEventArgs is MouseEventArgs || inputEventArgs is KeyboardEventArgs)
        {
            if (e.StagingItem.Input is MouseEventArgs)
            {
                MouseEventArgs mouseEventArgs = (MouseEventArgs)e.StagingItem.Input;

                // no button is pressed and the position is still the same as the application became inactive
                if (mouseEventArgs.LeftButton == MouseButtonState.Released &&
                    mouseEventArgs.RightButton == MouseButtonState.Released &&
                    mouseEventArgs.MiddleButton == MouseButtonState.Released &&
                    mouseEventArgs.XButton1 == MouseButtonState.Released &&
                    mouseEventArgs.XButton2 == MouseButtonState.Released &&
                    _inactiveMousePosition == mouseEventArgs.GetPosition(MainGrid))
                    return;
            }

            // set UI on activity
            rectangle.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;

            _activityTimer.Stop();
            _activityTimer.Start();
        }
    }
}