Stopwatch

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Description & Goals

Summary

This activity provides multiple stopwatches to time events with.

Goals

  • Provide a useful timer. For races, velocity measurements, etc.
  • Be accessible to innumerate users. Help develop numeracy.

Collaboration

Sharing of stopwatch sets, which anyone can manipulate.

Visual Design

Screenshots

Activity Stopwatch screenshot 1.png

Development

Collaboration is not yet implemented.

Status

  • For TRIAL-2, needs l10n, and testing on real hardware.

Todo

  • Use svg iconic buttons rather than using letters as icons.
  • Debug jerkiness of drag.
  • Add tubes support.
  • Add alternate representations: 0:00, dots, hash marks.
  • Turn off ticks when page is not visible, to save power.

Feature Requests

  • Alternate representations: pie chart of minute, or ten.
  • Reduce 0.1 sec tick frequency for long running timers, to save power.

Implementation Discussion

Version History

Source

RPMs

  • none available

Resources

Functional Test

Basic

  • Create stopwatches.
  • Drag them around.
  • Start, stop, and restart.
  • Zero
  • Save times to log.
  • Copy and paste from stopwatch and log to somewhere else.
  • Add text to log.

Secondary

History

  • 1 2007-07-13 Created.

Reviews

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