[sugar] Another pass through some basic Activity test results
Gary C Martin
gary at garycmartin.com
Sat Sep 27 20:32:39 EDT 2008
On 26 Sep 2008, at 19:31, Arjun Sarwal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
>> Here's a set of basic Activity test results for build 8.2-763, hope
>> the ASCI
>> art doesn't get too mangled by the list server (need to view with a
>> fixed
>> Measure-20 . . - . x x x . x Doesn't sleep when Activity is
>> in the
>> background (eats 75% cpu). Can't
>> seem to
>> record anything. Keep error when
>
> -- When Measure is in background and some other Activity comes in
> foreground, then Measure releases sound device - you can record sound
> using any other program/application. In this state Measure also
> doesn't hog CPU.
Just testing with Measure-21 and 8.2-765, yes I see this now. However
switching to any of the Neighborhood/Group/Home views does not seem
count as putting Measure into the background, it still consumes the
cpu and claims the sound input device. I'm guessing this is a Sugar
behaviour? Is this a bug or a feature (feels like a Sugar bug that
would make the UI sluggish for no go reason)?
> -- For recording the waveforms, within 'Sound' in toolbar, if 'Now' is
> selected and the record button next to it is pressed, it will capture
> the current displayed waveform. If you select an interval and then
> press the record button, it will start saving waveforms at the
> specified interval and the record button will change to a 'stop'
> button. It will record a maximum of 10 waveforms.
>
> You will be able to see the waveforms as picture files in the Journal
Ahhh, thanks Arjun, so that's where they go to. I was expecting some
visual representation within Measure, perhaps like Record does, where
there is a tray at the bottom of the screen, or Browse and its
bookmark thumbnails.
Is there a way to capture waveform images without the entire UI also
appearing in the screen shot?
> --For recording sensor values, within the 'Sensors' context , when one
> presses the record button it will start writing the sensor values (of
> the sensor connected at Analog Input) at the specified interval.
> You can have multiple recording sessions,i.e. stop it and then resume
> it and stop it again and resume it.
>
> You can see the logged sensor values in the Journal. They are saved
> in csv format.
> (I am waiting for the spreadsheet activity to come soon! :) )
Thanks, I understand this now as well. I had not noticed that new
entries were silently being entered in to the Journal. BTW: you can
resume the CSV file and Write will display the list of values. I also
tried copying the CSV to the clipboard, but it generated a blank
clipboard icon and would not paste anywhere (probably a Sugar issue,
the clipboard isn't very robust yet).
Some quick suggestions:
- The "Start Recording" text could say "Start Recording to Journal",
that would have pointed me to check in the Journal after clicking
record.
- The time section menu could say "Every 30 seconds", "Every 2
minutes" etc. Before you explained, I believed that the times were the
duration of the sample to be recorded, not the interval between each
sample. The little toolbar interval icon makes more sense now that I
know what the menu does ;-)
> Lastly, thanks for the feedback, its really useful. It helped me
> figure out a minor problem in sensor values recording (#8683) and I
> released ver21 that corrects that!
Glad it was of use! I'm a bit of an electronics type, so I'm really
glad Measure is up and working again.
--Gary
P.S. Any chance of solving the "keep error" bug every time Measure is
closed? I'm not quite sure what causes them.
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