<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com" target="_blank">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>* there should be some sort of start button to get the quiz started, I felt quite an adrenaline rush when I started the activity and saw the clock ticking away immediatedly</div>
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<div>* there seems to be quite an issue with syncing collaboration because initially the activities on both virtual machines were off by maybe half a second or so but after leaving them running for 10 minutes the difference had increased to more than 6 seconds.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>* one funky bug that I discovered by chance is that Arithmetic doesn't seem to know how to deal with two players with the same name. Both my virtual machines happened to be called "Christoph" and while collaboration works just fine there's only one player being listed who gets all the points regardless of which of the two VMs I use to solve the questions. (Anybody know how other activities deal with this issue?)</div>
<div>* another interesting observation I made is that when user B connects to a shared session by user A the player list on user B's screen initially only lists himself whereas user A's list is quickly updated to list both players. It is only after user A answers a question correctly (a wrong answer won't do that) that his player information shows up on user B's list. That however only seems to happen with the first two players because if a user C then joins the session the player list on his screen accurately contains the information about the other players.</div>
<div>* another issue is that the player list isn't updated to reflect that a player has left a session. So if user A initially plays with user B but user B later leaves the session the player list doesn't remove user B's information. When user C subsequently joins the shared session though he only see's user A as being an active player.</div>
<div>* one seriously awesome bug is that one can repeatedly hit ENTER on a correctly solved problem during the remaining time until the next question is posted to quickly increase one's score;-)</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Okay, one last message and then I really need to get back to work...</div><div><br></div><div>* There seems to be an issue when a user B who had previously joined a shared session by user A ends that session and then later tries to rejoin that session. Arithmetic then gets stuck at the "Joining shared activity" screen and while the network view indicates that user B has indeed joined the activity it never moves to a state where it can actually be used.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christoph</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>