Hi guys!
First of all congratulations on a vibrant and well moderated community. Its great to have found this place, and finally to have a hobby I'm really into.

I'm quite new to Puredata. The video tutorials are of limited use to me at the moment because I am yet to get pure data sharing the sound card with firefox (I'm on Ubuntu).

Generally I much prefer solving my own problems, but this time I thought I'd throw it out there and see what happens. I'm sure that apart from the solution, people will probably be highly amused by my inefficient "coding".

Anyway here is my Aim:
To make a clock which pauses, IF no audio has been received for a while AND the mouse hasn't moved for a while. When one of these things happens the clock starts again from where it left off.

The mouse detection works fine, and the mock audio pulse I've set up works fine, but I can't get the two conditions to meet properly and switch the clock on and off.

I know the solution is probably embarrassingly simple, but I just thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Just to give you an idea of the ridiculously challenging project I've set myself- I'm going to write a VST plugin that counts your active time working in an audio session. When I'm done that I'm going to wrap it to RTAS!! I'm sure many a nightmare waits to ensnare me along the way but hey I'm having fun!

K back to it (patch attached)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/clock_in_progress.pd

the [== 0] in the bottom checks in your patch if the mousstate is the same as the audio state, wich doesnt mean that they are both 0. it will output 1 if they are the same, 1 or 0. also you will need to add a [t b f] above it, to update when right side is changing.
its easy...but i dont give you a readymade patch, because i dont wont to spoil your patching fun.

Haha thank you! Smoke and a beer and now I'll work out your meanings. ta

Haha I'm soooo close! I'm going to post this when I work it out for kicks.

spigot...

Got it! MOSES!

didn't need a [t b f] though.....

you impressed sol or what? I'm impressed with myself right now.

Now all I need is a good GUI, the ability to read and write to a log file, a successful port to VST, a successful wrapper to RTAS, and then some dancing and patch maintenance to keep it working with pro tools updates right? Right?! (cheek).

Even if this project doesn't work out like I want it to, I have to say that I am loving all these little AHA! moments. Pure data is a wonderful thing... great to be here!

the file....

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/clockinprogressv2.pd

so the difficult part is done, heh?

you are one funny fellow

ha, well done!