getRemainingTime updated when none of the methods are called

[Josh68]

Hello. I've tried debugging this locally, and haven't figured out what's going on. Before trying to post any code (which is pretty complex, and inolves an external session API), I just want to make sure I'm understanding things.

I now have listeners set up on every event/state-change method of the timer (I'm using the hook), and as in the demos, I'm currently logging out remaining time in the UI so I can see what's happening. I also have both startOnMount and startManually set to false, and control the timer by starting it only when a user has an authenticated session and updating it by setting values for timeout and promptBeforeIde in the wrapping component's state.

Sometimes when I move my mouse or similar, or when I tab away for a bit and come back, I see onAction being called with the relevant event (like mousemove or visibilitychange) . This is expected. In these cases, I declaratively update my time values, and then expect my timer to restart and for getRemainingTime to be updated, with more time remaining.

But there are also times when moving my mouse or tabbing does not trigger any callback, and still getRemainingTime is updated. Here I mean I have callbacks for onIdle, onPrompt, onAction, onActive (which still confuses me, vs onAction), onMessage, and onPresenceChange.

Why would getRemainingTime be updated with more time on something like a mousemove if none of the timer's event or state-change callbacks have been called?

Thanks

[Josh68]

I have resorted to working around this issue by setting my events to an empty array, then creating a new useEffect hook that binds to all DEFAULT_EVENTS, with throttling, and then calls my existing onActionHandler. I'd love to not need to do this, but can't figure out why my timer's remaining time was updating when none of the event/state-change methods were being called, and particularly onAction.

[Josh68]

I now think my issue was using throttle instead of eventsThrottle to control how often the idle timer's interal timeouts would be updated. This is another thing I find a little confusing about the API.

[SupremeTechnopriest]

Yeah I agree eventsThrottle is not a great name for this property. I am open to suggestions.