pClock Time Tools

[houndstooth]

There may be a newer version with fixes, but I didn't see this mentioned in this forum:

In version 0.8.2, countdown to zero automatically restarts the countdown with no obvious way to stop first iteration.

Running a second instance of the app stops the first. E.g., 10 minutes countdown freezes at 9:13 with a second instance.

Trying to run it again, the app window flashes open briefly then closes. There is no obvious way to run pClock again after the crash.

Back to Android's timer. This is 32 Xenial.

@zigbert

[don570]

In version 0.8.2, countdown to zero automatically restarts the countdown with no obvious way to stop first iteration.

When I tried pclock in Easy OS I noticed that it repeated just like you.

..but it must have turned off ??? I don't remember it being a problem.
Maybe go to clock tab?

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[MochiMoppel]

Where to download? The link in the Murga forum does not work anymore.

[HerrBert]

@MochiMoppel
I recall it is in s15pup64. https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... bin/pclock

[OscarTalks]

Where to download? The link in the Murga forum does not work anymore.

Maybe this one?
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -0.8.2.pet

[MochiMoppel]

@HerrBert @OscarTalks Thanks.
pClock seems to be broken in many ways. Also Stop button works not as I would expect and the progress bar doesn't work at all.
I wonder why it is coded in such a convoluted way. Maybe dates back to a time when the timer widget wasn't yet implemented in gtkdialog.

[don570]

pClock seems to be broken in many ways. Also Stop button works not as I would expect

A 'Stop' button is difficult to program. There are different versions of 'ps' command
and it's important to understand how the tasks are listed by the options of that command.
Stop button does work in fatdog64 linux. Repetition stops.

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[MochiMoppel]

A 'Stop' button is difficult to program. There are different versions of 'ps' command
and it's important to understand how the tasks are listed by the options of that command.

???
Where in the pclock script do you see a ps command?

BTW: There is a Stop button for the Countdown timer, but it acts like a Reset button, where else there is no Stop button at all for the Stopwatch timer, which feels quite weird. Pushing the Start button a second time creates a syntax error but doesn't toggle to Stop either.

[don570]

Where in the pclock script do you see a ps command

I haven't looked at the pclock script in the last couple of years
I know it's a complex script.

The way I implement the 'stop' button is with 'ps' command
I don't have enough experience in programming to know if it's the proper method
but it seemed to work.
see ptmtimer
viewtopic.php?p=72691#p72691

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