pTiming 1.0.3-1 - Event timer system

[davids45]

G'day zigbert,
Just trying v0.4. A short first report.

Strangely, I hear some hard-drive noise (a seeking rattle?) in between each second when pTiming is running. This starts immediately pTiming opens. I hadn't noticed this noise before and will check if I hear this on v0.3. I'll see if there's a difference between a Full & Frugal Puppy as well for v0.4 - I am hearing this drive noise with my first v0.4 try on a Full Pup (Kinda Lucid 006).
Edit: Other Pups did not have the hard-drive noise so it was just a anomaly in my klp006 install.

When I display both the Full Screen and Main box display together (big time on top half, details box on lower half), there is a slight lag in the big display. The beeps coincide with the details box time nicely.

The export data list for the '0' (unspecified) finishes looks OK for my wish to have a simple finish timer clock set-up of pTiming. As long as I know who finished in number order, names etc can be added to the exported times listing afterwards.

Thanks,
David S.

[don570]

In line 135 of /usr/local/ptiming you'll find
Code:
Mono bold '$((HEIGHT/3))'"

Dividing by 5 worked nicely with my 1440 x 900 screen

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[zigbert]

In line 135 of /usr/local/ptiming you'll find
Code:
Mono bold '$((HEIGHT/3))'"

Dividing by 5 worked nicely with my 1440 x 900 screen

Please test the latest version. I think this should handle both 4:3 and 16:9 screens. - I haveonly tested on widescreen.


Sigmund

[don570]

Version .4 of ptiming centers the full screen mode perfectly.

[john biles]

Hello zigbert,
I'm testing your wonderful app in Legacy for inclusion in version 2 coming soon. It installs fine but when I add competitors they don't appear in the list and when i try to add them again ptiming claims they've already been entered? If I export to gnumeric they appear in the spreadsheet. I'm assuming its most likely got something to do with Legacy's version of gtkdialog?

attached image after I've added 2 competitors? I tried shuffling the list but made no difference.

[zigbert]

hello John
If pTiming is working perfect else of this specific bug, I need some terminal output, but the reason could be that you miss 'tac' in Legacy OS. I thought it was standard in Puppy....... it might have arrived later than your fork.

It is a tool to output content of file in reverse order. Could it be done another easy way?


Sigmund

[disciple]

Hi Sigmund,
It needs some more calculations

If I boot Puppy with pfix=ram and install Ptiming it works fine.
If I then go to 'Menu-Desktop-Set Global Font Size', change the setting and restart X, when I run Ptiming the timer display is the wrong size. See the attached screenshots.
(N.B. pStopwatch had the same problem... IIRC this was one of the problems that I reported but I couldn't figure out what the cause was)

You can get the dpi setting with

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cat /root/.Xresources | grep "^Xft\\.dpi:" | tr '\t' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' '

Mine is 87. The default is 78, so it seems to work in the normal window if I multipy the numbers in this code by 78÷87

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style "monoBig" { font_name="Mono bold 52" base[NORMAL]="'$COLOR1'" text[NORMAL]="'$COLOR2'" }
widget "*timer" style "monoBig"
style "dejaColor" { font_name="Dejavu 16" base[NORMAL]="'$COLOR1'" text[NORMAL]="'$COLOR3'" }
widget "*edit" style "dejaColor"
style "dejaBig" { font_name="Dejavu 40" base[NORMAL]="'$COLOR1'" text[NORMAL]="'$COLOR3'"}
widget "*nr" style "dejaBig"

It is still wrong when I switch to fullscreen, but I haven't looked at the code for fullscreen enough to figure out how it works.

[disciple]

You can get the dpi setting with

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cat /root/.Xresources | grep "^Xft\\.dpi:" | tr '\t' ' ' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' '

Actually, this is probably a more robust way to get it:

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xrdb -query | grep dpi

[john biles]

Hello zigbert,
Missing "tac" looked thought ibiblio.org and couldn't find it. Did some more searching and discovered it's a terminal command. Your right! enter ./tac -h and command not recognized! Looks like this app won't be in Legacy OS 2 shame that!

[disciple]

Tac is tiny. Pinch it from somewhere if you can't be bothered tracking down the source. I'm pretty sure I did that on my machines

[disciple]

I guess I shouldn't suggest that as it goes against the GPL. But even if the main site is hard to find, it shouldn't take long to get the source from somewhere like the Debian packages site.

[seaside]

You could get tac from most pups and it's only around the same size as pTiming.

Another alternative is to emulate "tac" with "sed" and create a function in pTiming.

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tac() {
	sed '1!G;h;$!d' $1
}
export -f tac

should work.

Regards,
s

[zigbert]

Great stuff guys
- I will use sed instead of tac. Less dependencies is always good.
- I will fix the global ffontsize issue


Sigmund

[zigbert]

tac stays...... (else new arguments)
sed works, but troubles inside gtkdialog code.
It is replaceable, but much cleaner code with tac.


Sigmund

[john biles]

Hello zigbert,
So "tac" is part of the coreutils package. Got "tac" out of a Mandriva 2007 rpm and now your app works as expected. Those using Legacy OS and want to use pTiming just copy the attached file to /usr/bin

[zigbert]

Version 0.5
See main post

Changelog
- Bugfix: Fontsize fits your global font-setting at first run. Else, set in preferences. (thanks to disciple)
- Bugfix: Export results after edited timestamp when competitor is not defined.

[seaside]

Hello zigbert,
So "tac" is part of the coreutils package. Got "tac" out of a Mandriva 2007 rpm and now your app works as expected. Those using Legacy OS and want to use pTiming just copy the attached file to /usr/bin

Here's the "tac" file from pup431 which is only 16k.

Regards,
s

[zigbert]

Version 0.6
See main post

- Language support.
- Cancel button in preferences window.

[zigbert]

Version 0.7 is uploaded
See main post

The introduction of Language support gave some bugs. Sorry about that.

Changelog
- Bugfix: syntax in tree header 'Laptime'
- Bugfix: edit in shuffle window

[zigbert]

esmourguit has improved the code to use the NLS-variables completely. I have uploaded 0.7-1.


Sigmund