What is this?

The StopWatch activity allows you to measure the amount of time something takes. It shows a number of digital stopwatches. Each stopwatch is independent.

Features include:

• synchronized collaborative timing through the Sugar collaboration system,
• saving stopwatches to the Journal ... even while they are still running!
• keyboard-navigable, with special accelerators for use on laptops in tablet mode,
• names for stopwatches for easy reference,
• mark-saving for important points during a timed session,
• very high CPU efficiency: uses no CPU time when not visible on-screen.

How to use?

StopWatch is not part of the Sugar desktop, but can be added. Please refer to;

• How to Get Sugar on sugarlabs.org,
• How to use Sugar,
• Download StopWatch using Browse, search for StopWatch, then download, and;
• How to use StopWatch

How to upgrade?

On Sugar desktop systems;

• use My Settings, Software Update, or;
• use Browse to open activities.sugarlabs.org, search for StopWatch, then download.

How to integrate?

StopWatch depends on Python, Sugar Toolkit for GTK+ 3, and GTK+ 3.

StopWatch is started by Sugar.

Developers

StopWatch is the original source of, and inspiration for, the codebase that became Groupthink.

Stopwatch was previously maintained in a git repository at OLPC