[Sugar-devel] pygame activities stop XO sleep?

[Paul Fox]

peter wrote:
 > At 10:46 PM 31/12/2010, you wrote:
 > >In addition to advice from James, you might also want to consider the case 
 > >when your activity is not in the user focus, as they switch away to a 
 > >different activity or use one of the home views. A few months back I added 
 > >some extra event checks to Physics so that it minimises its run loop work 
 > >when not in focus (updates come from a continious physics simulation so I 
 > >can't simply idle screen redraws when the user isn't interacting with the UI).
 > >
 > >Line 47-49 set up the needed events:
 > >
 > >     http://git.sugarlabs.org/physics/mainline/blobs/master/activity.py#line47
 > 
 > Hi Gary,
 > 
 > I have looked at Physics before but your pointing me at the exact lines is 
 > a great help - it also gives me an appreciation of the usefulness of git :o)
 > 
 > James' redraw idea is working well but sadly no-one seems able to assist 
 > with the problem of the XO-1 losing the ability to suspend even AFTER my 
 > activity exits. I hasten to add that my XO-1 suspends normally if I don't 
 > use my activity.

peter has told me off-list that he's running build 802 on his XO-1. 
that's an ohmd build, and lots of other things were/are different as
well.  i'm not sure what else to suggest.  anyone else?

paul

 > 
 > Peter
 > 
 > PS I've just checked Physics on my XO-1 and it behaves in the same way. BTW 
 > this is not peculiar to my XO - my chief tester reported the same issue.
 > 
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