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Block Keeper: Cross platform desktop timer

DalDal

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I really like this timer! The only problem is I don't know what the # (random letter) mean for changing text colors, and that means I don't know how to change text color. Could you help?

You can use any of these basic colours just by typing in their name (or hex if you would like) https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp
There is also an in-depth colour picker here if you have a more specific colour in mind https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
Hope this is helpful

Malkom, that's a very interesting bug. I made a small change which should prevent this from happening in the next version (coming in a week or so). Have you seen it happen before or have any other information about when it occurred? Thanks :)
 

RedJack22

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You can use any of these basic colours just by typing in their name (or hex if you would like) https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp
There is also an in-depth colour picker here if you have a more specific colour in mind https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
Hope this is helpful

Malkom, that's a very interesting bug. I made a small change which should prevent this from happening in the next version (coming in a week or so). Have you seen it happen before or have any other information about when it occurred? Thanks :)
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
 
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Malkom

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Malkom, that's a very interesting bug. I made a small change which should prevent this from happening in the next version (coming in a week or so). Have you seen it happen before or have any other information about when it occurred? Thanks :)
It has happen two or three times, the other times it were megaminx solves that was 38s instead of the 55s they really were. I have no clue why it happen, I always have chrome, blockkeeper, spotify and a few messenger programs running so I don't think thats the reason it went slow.
 
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Mano

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The time is always displayed in seconds, when doing 5x5 solves I always have to convert the time in min, is there a way to change that ?

EDIT : Oops I didn't see the option format time, fixed :)
 
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Elo13

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I found out today that for bigger averages Block Keeper removes only the best and the worst solve. I think usually the top and bottom 5% are removed, so could you change that for ao50 and ao100? Also, it would be nice to see standard deviations for all the different averages, not just the session.

I have a white background and black base. If I put the scramble color to black, when hovering over a time in the list the scramble there is also black and I can't see it. Could I have the option to set colors for the current scramble and the scramble for a time separately?
 

DalDal

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Block Keeper 1.2 has been released. It focuses on improving the tool system and adding many suggestions throughout
https://dallasmcneil.com/projects/blockkeeper/
  • Multiple tool support
  • Added metronome tool
  • Higher resolution tools for higher definition displays
  • Option to video record inspections and just after solve
  • Option to toggle scrambles in time lists
  • Option to include a scramble while manually adding times
  • Small menu improvements
  • Event statatistics tool bug fixes
  • Various bug fixes
I have finished university for the year and have much more time to work on Block Keeper in the next 3 months. I hope to release updates much more frequently in this time. As usual, if you have suggestions, let me know.

Malkom: I hope this update fixes the issue for you, please let me know if it is still inaccurate

Elo13: Excellent point, it should remove the top/bottom 5% for averages above 12, my bad. I will change the scrambles in the menu to be the text colour as well. I'll look into standard deviations for each average and maybe a running mean menu as well.
 

Hazel

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Block Keeper 1.2 has been released. It focuses on improving the tool system and adding many suggestions throughout
https://dallasmcneil.com/projects/blockkeeper/
  • Multiple tool support
  • Added metronome tool
  • Higher resolution tools for higher definition displays
  • Option to video record inspections and just after solve
  • Option to toggle scrambles in time lists
  • Option to include a scramble while manually adding times
  • Small menu improvements
  • Event statatistics tool bug fixes
  • Various bug fixes
I have finished university for the year and have much more time to work on Block Keeper in the next 3 months. I hope to release updates much more frequently in this time. As usual, if you have suggestions, let me know.

Malkom: I hope this update fixes the issue for you, please let me know if it is still inaccurate

Elo13: Excellent point, it should remove the top/bottom 5% for averages above 12, my bad. I will change the scrambles in the menu to be the text colour as well. I'll look into standard deviations for each average and maybe a running mean menu as well.
For averages of 12 you just remove the fastest time and slowest time, not the top and bottom 5%. For averages of 50+, you would use the 5% I think
 
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Mano

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I noticed that with a big session (1600 solves) when I stop the timer there is a 2s delay before it displays the time, is that a bug or my computer isn't fast enough to calculate all the averages instantly ?
 

DalDal

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On a test 1500 session, I have 0.7s delay, that happens when a session has many times and recalculates Ao5 and Ao12 among other things such as mean, median, s.d and etc because the times for the session have updated. I'll look into optimising this if possible, but I recommend using more small sessions. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
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Mano

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Maybe (if it is possible) you can display the time instantly but display all the others calculations when they are finished calculating.

Another problem I have is that I'm unable to change the color of the text or the background with the new update
 

DalDal

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Maybe (if it is possible) you can display the time instantly but display all the others calculations when they are finished calculating.

Another problem I have is that I'm unable to change the color of the text or the background with the new update

I have made a small change so that the time can be displayed before the calculations are made in the future, but it will still be a bit unresponsive and lag a touch while doing them. But at least it will be bearable for really large sessions. Can you send me the text colour you are using. Is it in the form "#xxxxxx" where 'x' is a digit or 'ABCDEF'. Also, what OS are you using, I have had issues with windows and file paths before.
 
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Mano

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I am using the standard Dark theme but when I want to switch it doesn't work. I am using MacOS HighSierra 10.13.1
 

DalDal

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You will need to switch to the 'custom' theme to change any colours. They should default to the dark theme by default and the changes to the text colour will be visible. I am on macOS Sierra right now so I will update and see what the issue is. :)
 
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I'd love to try this timer out, but it appears your website is down! I tried building it off the source on github, but I get errors when running "./start".
 

DalDal

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I'd love to try this timer out, but it appears your website is down! I tried building it off the source on github, but I get errors when running "./start".

I'm REALLY sorry about that, I'm trying to get it fixed with my server provider. I hope to have it back up soon but we are having a bit of trouble. But don't worry, here are the download links. :)

Windows 64 bit: http://www.mediafire.com/file/cb5y58s5wd1p4i8/Block_Keeper_Win_64.zip
Windows 32 bit: http://www.mediafire.com/file/khs6it39rbqrxyd/Block_Keeper_Linux_32.zip
MacOS: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ey5b6yoxdu2bn46/Block_Keeper_MacOS.zip
Linux 64 bit: http://www.mediafire.com/file/6pn7gwbdvncc3va/Block_Keeper_Linux_64.zip
 
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