crosshare-org
Make auto-pause an optional feature for constructor and/or solver?
Hi,
Just a frequent user who enjoys and appreciates Crosshare.
There seems to be an app feature that places a puzzle that's being solved in pause mode, with a Resume modal dialog, whenever the browser window loses focus (at least on a PC or Mac). Maybe that's not quite an accurate description, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
This is great if I'm getting interrupted from solving the puzzle by another task too urgent to let me stop the clock, and I don't want it to keep running.
But if I'm switching to another window to jot down some info from the grid relating to solving a meta puzzle, or I'm comparing the grid to a list of chemical element abbreviations, or the like, it can be inconvenient that the grid I am working on is replaced by a modal dialog every time I click away from it.
I don't know what the best way to address that issue would be, if you think it's worth addressing, whether a user option or a constructor option or both (or even whether you have a constructor option already). But it seems like a relatively simple thing, and it's the only thing that pushes me to opt for solving with Across Lite instead, and so I thought I'd bring it up.
Thank you for Crosshare!
Hector
I'm not great at certain kinds of crossword clues and have to switch to another window to do a quick web search on a sports team/player or actor. Switching back, I have to take my hands off the keyboard and use the mouse to find that little black "resume" button. Super-annoying, and really pushes me to not want to do online crosswords anymore. This should default to the old behavior of not pausing. Or make it 100% automatic: pause and pop up that modal dialog when switching away, but automatically resume and clear out the modal dialog when returning so that no extra user action is required.
@BrianEnigma what do you think about having "press any key to resume" when you come back to the site? That might make a significant improvement for keyboard users w/o resorting to auto-resume.
@mdirolf That would 100% solve my particular use-case, for sure. (And probably better than an option since I can't seem to stay logged in to Google.)
Web users who have multiple windows open just don't want the grid to disappear when they put another window in focus.
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@mdirolf https://github.com/mdirolf That would 100% solve my particular use-case, for sure. (And probably better than an option since I can't seem to stay logged in to Google.)
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Yes! Thank you! Hector
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Closed #389 https://github.com/crosshare-org/crosshare/issues/389 as completed via b2e0179 https://github.com/crosshare-org/crosshare/commit/b2e0179611eecbcfcc039065d76f93b4b875ffee .
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Yes! Thank you! Hector
Yeah huge thanks to @adamthedog for tackling this one (and nailing it I think). Note that I haven't deployed yet so you won't see the new behavior until sometime this weekend when I roll it out. I will try to remember to comment here when I do.