Dear Mal, Thank you. It looks like an obvious solution that I should have thought of. Oh well! Someone had to discover gravity. Good work...Vince Wiley
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Mal Gamble <[email protected]> wrote: > I have also found that Sudoku in Karmic always reports game times of > about 58 seconds. > > After having a bit of a look around the source, it seems that the > problem relates to the autosave function. Autosave is triggered ever 60 > seconds (or the time set by gconf /apps/gnome- > sudoku/auto_save_interval). On each autosave, the module saver.py > triggers a "timer.finish_timing" event. This stops the timer and means > that the final reported game time will be incorrect. > > I found that by setting the autosave interval to a large number (I used > 60000), autosave is effectively disabled and the timer works correctly. > I also tried setting this to zero, but this just causes the program to > default to 60 seconds. > > I'm not sure if there are any serious consequences of disabling the > autosave feature. I guess it just means that the game state could be > lost if the session is ended unexpectedly. > > Mal > > -- > Gnome-sudoku timings all wrong > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282315 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in The GNOME games package: Confirmed > Status in “gnome-games” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > Running Intrepid Kernel 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 03:55:01 UTC > 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux and Gnome-Sudoku 2.24.0. Start a new game choose Easy > as example. Play game - resulting time is normally short at least on the > first game. The clock should start when either I fill in the first square or > when I select a new game and end when I finish the game. It looks like it > starts when I select a square to fill in and then stops when I fill in the > square and then starts again when I select a new square. > -- Gnome-sudoku timings all wrong https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
