I was about to say 'eureka!' but got stopped in my tracks by... Miranda IM.
After some online research, I found an
article by Paul DiLascia dating way back in 2000, showing how to get idle time in 9x. It installs a global hook through a dll and it does work... sort of. I say that because it only works for
system idle, not for
physical idle.
There's a popup plug-in for Miranda IM. I have it installed and happened to run this messenger while testing Paul's example. Everytime a notification popup appeared and dissapeared, the idle time got reset. There goes my enthusiasm, the little I gathered so far.
None of the documentation I read so far managed to reveal a way to hook input at a hardware level, but I still have fresh in mind a very old keyboard test software that would recognize any keypress and display that on a virtual keyboard on screen. Maybe it was a DOS application though.
There also was an old game of pinball that used both SHIFT keys to control the flippers; now how did it do that, when Win9x can't tell left from right when it comes to special keys?!
I'm so frustrated...
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