SleepyHead Qt v0.8 alpha

Pugsy wrote:

jedimark wrote:I'm just not very good with wording stuff that makes sense to normal people (or knowing what they really want/need to know).. I need a nerd translator.

Composing means I have to stretch my brain a bit and it is usually rough but maybe I can help with basics.
A glossary of terms might be nice too. What I know about html coding would fit on the head of a pin. I am way to rusty on it. I will see what I can come up with in the next few days. Husband will be home next couple of days so he whines if I spend too much time on computer. When he goes back to work I will put my mind to work composing some basic stuff.

Plain text is fine Pugsy..

Hey, while I am thinking.... what happened to the screen shot Tool thingy? I can't find it on the latest version??
Am I missing where it is?

Pugsy wrote:Hey, while I am thinking.... what happened to the screen shot Tool thingy? I can't find it on the latest version??
Am I missing where it is?

It kinda died along with wxWidgets..

I haven't bothered to reimplement it, because Linux & Mac have an application level screen-shot key anyway.. Windows may too.. (try one of the shift/ctrl/alt/win keys with PrintScreen key) If not, there may be a simple 3rd party tool to help with this?

If no-one can find one for windows I'll try and add the feature back.. A quick dirty hack in the mean time is full screen (f11) then use windows normal screenshot.. (another PrintScreen key combo which I forgot) It loses the title bar though.. :/

I'm trying to avoid the rampant featurism this next round of updates.. I really want stability to come first.. OSA is not a good excuse for writing crashy apps

jedimark wrote: It kinda died along with wxWidgets..

I haven't bothered to reimplement it, because Linux & Mac have an application level screen-shot key anyway.. Windows may too.. (try one of the shift/ctrl/alt/win keys with PrintScreen key) If not, there may be a simple 3rd party tool to help with this?

Okay, no problem. It isn't that big of a deal. Vista and Windows 7 (at least Premium) has the Snipping Tool.
Before that with XP I used prt/scr and Paint. There are also many 3rd party programs. I was just wondering if I had lost my mind. This could be one of those instructional things to compose.
The Snipping tool is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Screen shot and crop all in one stroke.
My new Windows 7 already had it pinned to Start Menu. For Vista it was easy to pin to start menu. Once there screen shots so easy no need to do anything else. No hunting around for it. I used it often on another computer help board where I used lots of embedded screen shots.

I have Win 7 but have always just used Alt/PrtSc to capture the screen then paste into paint or whatever you choose. That works with ALL flavors of windows I have ever tasted.

Jedimark,

Here's the additional info you asked for about my last bug report. And by the way, I even tried trashing everything related to SleepyHead-0.8 and reinstalling SleepyHead-0.8-20110721-1.exe from a brand new download yesterday. It's no surprise the issues are still there.

jedimark wrote:

robysue wrote:Reporting bugs here.

First, I did rename the SleepyApp directory that's in the Documents folder for the old version of SleepyHead before starting SleepyHead-0.8-20110721-1

It didn't crash for me, but it's not fully functional either---at least not in the same sense that SleepyHead-0.7-4229 is.

Here's where I'm running into problems with 0 .8-20110721-1:

Application STARTS ok and I can download the data into 0.8-20110721-1 without any problems. The waveform for the last day of the data shows up just fine and the graphs for that data work in the sense of being able to zoom in and so forth.

But if I click on a different day that I know (from SleepyHead-0.7-4229) has wave form data available? The wave form and other detailed graphs do NOT CHANGE. In other words, the graphical data simply stays on the first day that was shown after uploading the data. The data in the sidebar switches just fine however.

And if I click on a day with no waveform data (because I forgot to put the SD card into my PR System One BiPAP Auto all the way that night), then I get "No data available for <date>" in the right part of the window and "No CPAP data available" under the Daily tab on the left sidebar part of the window---even though Encore Viewer still has all the tick marks, the leak data, and the pressure data available for the date.

Also whenever I try to switch tabs---from Daily to Summary for example---the sidebar on the left switches appropriately, but the graphical stuff on the right just simply vanishes---and I basically see whatever is on the computer's desktop underneath or the Welcome to Sleepy Head page (which I see seems to depend on how I got into the daily data in the first place)

Am I missing something really basic in making the 0.8 version work correctly? I ask because I really like its look and feel and the way the tick mark graph does NOT zoom in when you zoom in on the waveform, but I can't use it the way it currently behaves on my Eee PC Seashell netbook that I use for my xPAP data.

Do you by any chance know what graphics chip is in your EeePC? Some of those problems indicate an incompatible graphics card. I'm not using very advanced OpenGL calls, but unfortunately, Qt does some stuff behind the scenes I have no control over, and makes some unnecessary OpenGL calls.

When I check under Device Manager, the Display Adapters lists only a Intel(R) Graphics Media Acclerator 3150. Is that the info you need? Do you need any additional info that I might be able to give you?

Check your AntiAliasing setting.. This may not work on a few graphics chips.. (It doesn't on my old Dell notebook I do most of my development on)

OK: Here's the scoop:

When I first start SH-20110721-1, the viewing options/settings are listed as:

• Use AntiAliasing is UNCHECKED
  Link Graphs is CHECKED
  Noon Date Split is UNCHECKED
  Overlay Bars is CHECKED

The default set of graphs (last day in the data base) shows up. And I can zoom in as far as I like. The slider bar under the Daily Event table works as intended. If I click on an event in the under the "Events" tab of the data presented in the left side bar, the graphs immediately jump to an appropriate zoomed in level on the Flow data to see the selected event.

But when I click on a different day the data in the left side bar DOES update to the selected date but none of the graphs update. And now if I try to change the zoom on the (incorrect) displayed graphs nothing happens. Likewise, the slider bar is still there, but no longer works. And (no surprise here) if I click on an event in the Events list, nothing happens to the (incorrect) graphs. Moreover, if I click back on the original date---the day that actually corresponds to the displayed data, nothing happens.

Now, if I check the Use AntiAliasing box after the graphs have frozen, nothing changes.

And if check Use AntiAliasing and quit SH and then reopen, SH still shows AntiAliasing as being ON. So when I start SH with the following settings:

• Use AntiAliasing is CHECKED
  Link Graphs is CHECKED
  Noon Date Split is UNCHECKED
  Overlay Bars is CHECKED

The graphs on the default last day of data show up just fine and I can zoom in to my heart's content, clicking on an event in the Events list zooms into the selected event, and the slider bar under the events graph works just fine. But just as with AntiAliasing turned off, as soon as I click on a different day, the data in the left sidebar updates, but the graphs don't and again, the graphs remain frozen even if I go back to the original date.

Another graphical weirdity to report, too, since I think it's probably related to the same kind of thing. If I switch from Daily to Overview when I'm looking at the default (last) day of data's detailed graphs, the Overview stuff pops up exactly as intended and seems to work exactly as intended. But if I first choose a different day to try to look at the detailed data and then click on Overview, the left sidebar changes to the summary data table, but the graphs on the right side of the window don't show up. What remains in the right side of the window is just the now frozen detailed data graphs for the last day of data.

The fact you can zoom graphs makes this a little weird though.. I have fixed some things while solving the crash that may help these issues.

Try using the Noon Date Split option in the View menu, exit and restart the application..

Nope. This didn't do anything. Still behaves exactly the same way as what I described above.

and check your region/timezone is set correctly in control panel.

Checked and they're correct. Eastern Time with the note that it knows about Daylight Savings Time, and it does have the correct time and date.

One thing that may really help you here if your EeePC has a newer operating system then windows XP on it: Right click on the SleepyHead Icon, and click properties.. Find the tab that has XP Compatibility mode stuff in it.. underneath there is some checkboxes.. One disables desktop compositing, and one disables theming for SleepyHead.. Try turning off both these features.. It may make things come to life for you. (Basic edition of 7/Vista might not have these at all, it's worth a look though)

Did this, and SH still behaves the same way that I described eariler---regardless of whether AntiAliasing is turned ON or OFF.

One more thing to note, SleepyHead 0.7's calendar days are advanced by one (today's date showed last nights sleep data).. Version 0.8 should match Encore & ResMed days, ie, last night's sleep goes into yesterday in the calendar. I'm still not sure which method is best. 0.7's way still makes a little more sense to me.

I noticed this. I personally agree with you that it makes more sense to do it the way you have it in 0.7 (and when "Noon Day Split" is turned off), but, alas, Encore and ResMed don't do it that way. I think it's a nice feature to be able to choose which way you want the data displayed.

Personally, I think the sleep data goes with the night I went to sleep, not the morning I woke up. Ideally, this would be configurable, but obviously other things come first.

"Noon Date Split" doesn't seem to do anything. Could this be because each "night" of data was loaded from its own directory? Not that I'm complaining. I really don't care about midnight and noon, I want things grouped by when I go to bed and get up.

It uses one hell of a lot of memory, but I haven't been able to get SleepyHead to crash yet. What am I doing wrong?

I was able to reproduce robysue's stuck summary data. While I was playing with that, I noticed that switching days generates these errors:
Warning: Error Unkpacking Wavefile ""
Warning: Error Unkpacking Wavefile ""
Warning: Error Unkpacking Wavefile ""
Warning: Error Unkpacking Events ""
Warning: Error Unkpacking Wavefile ""
Warning: Error Unkpacking Wavefile ""

The traces and events markers display as expected, but perhaps things grind to a halt on those errors before the summary data is updated.

but I haven't been able to get SleepyHead to crash yet. What am I doing wrong?

Otter I used it on winblows 7. When I tried a few days ago, it was crashing for me just executing the .exe. I still haven't read all the thread. I will when I can focus.

KeithK wrote:

but I haven't been able to get SleepyHead to crash yet. What am I doing wrong?

Otter I used it on winblows 7. When I tried a few days ago, it was crashing for me just executing the .exe. I still haven't read all the thread. I will when I can focus.

The OS could have something to do with it. I'm using xp pro x64. Because it's based on a server OS, it's surprisingly stable -- for windows.

Otter wrote:The OS could have something to do with it. I'm using xp pro x64. Because it's based on a server OS, it's surprisingly stable -- for windows.

I am using it on a new Windows 7 64 bit laptop. No issues. No failures. I got one "not responding" but it may have been me being in a rush and clicking on too many things. Using the latest SleepyHead version too.

Brief spike in cpu usage when clicking on overview to bring up the details, then it drops to nothing.

All in all works fine for me. Switching between days never fails. Of course I never had any problems with any Pro version either. Maybe I am just lucky that way.

Pugsy wrote:All in all works fine for me. Switching between days never fails.

Pugsy, does the data summary data on the overview tab change when you switch days? I hadn't noticed this bug until I read Robysue's post.

I found yet another cause of crashing.. A function in Qt was breaking when I tried to draw text in the little graphs in the details box on certain graphics drivers.

This is supposed to be fixed in the current version.. and the next build that goes online will be build with this.

Getting closer.. I just rewrote the xTicker code.. much clear now, and the nice scrolling is back. Still got the minor ticks to draw.

Overview's still not redone yet, but things are a heck of a lot more solid..

I'm still looking for an semi-advanced windows person or two to help test source code from GIT.. The free Nokia Qt SDK has all of what's needed to build.. (The free Tortise Git client is also needed to download the source code and keep it up to date.) Qt SDK is a quite a huge download.. Everything can be built via graphical interface. I really don't want to release another crashy windows build without some serious testing on this platform first. I've put you guys through enough torture..

Things are getting a lot more stable on the Linux & Mac.. Mac has a few drawing issues thanks to Qt bugs that need resolving..

I'm starting to wrap my brain around the concept of an Android build.. I've got some more research to do.. This won't happen for a while, but I'm getting very interested in the new tablets..

KeithK wrote:Otter I used it on winblows 7. When I tried a few days ago, it was crashing for me just executing the .exe. I still haven't read all the thread. I will when I can focus.

Try starting it again after it crashes. It may crash 3 or 4 times, then it may run OK. Apparently, there's some problem with setting up the data the first time. Once it gets the SleepApp directory set up correctly, it's happy. YMMV.

Remove the SleepApp directory if you want to start over from scratch.

Otter wrote:

Pugsy wrote:All in all works fine for me. Switching between days never fails.

Pugsy, does the data summary data on the overview tab change when you switch days? I hadn't noticed this bug until I read Robysue's post.

Is this happening on just the little Atom Netbooks? They may need a display driver update..

Otter wrote:Pugsy, does the data summary data on the overview tab change when you switch days?

Do you mean when I use the Overview and change the date range (buttons at bottom of screen) in the Overview section? Yes, it does change if I select a different time frame from the buttons below. All of them will bring about a change. I just now confirmed by testing each button.

Now if I just right click on the graphs to to toggle between dates, no it does not change the summary data.