1007297 - Scanning through graph in eideticker detail view could be easier

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing Graveyard :: Eideticker, defect)

Description

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

So right now it's kind of more annoying than it should be to step through things frame by frame in views like this:

http://eideticker.mozilla.org/b2g/detail.html?id=765756f0d5e911e38eebf0def1767b24#/framediffsums

The only approach that only really works is to swipe over the graph and look at the results while you're doing so. This is fine as far as it goes, but it would be nice to more easily jump to specific frames if you're lacking dexterity. :) We have "step forward", "step backward" buttons but they only work in 1 frame increments, so getting to a specific position in the capture takes forever.

Things I would like to see changed:

1. By default, we should start on frame 0, and the graph should reflect this.
2. The option to scan through in say, 60 frame (1 sec) increments. Use the bootstrap "fast forward", "fast backward" icons for this: http://getbootstrap.com/components/

Probably the easiest way to tackle this bug would be to copy the b2g dashboard via the copy-dashboard.py utility (part of the eideticker virtual environment) like this:

copy-dashboard.py http://eideticker.mozilla.org/b2g dash-copy

Then modify the dashboard html/javascript files as you wish. When done, copy the changed files back to src/dashboard inside eideticker.

The existing code/html for stepping through the graph is here:

https://github.com/mozilla/eideticker/blob/master/src/dashboard/detail.html#L98
https://github.com/mozilla/eideticker/blob/master/src/dashboard/detail.html#L157
https://github.com/mozilla/eideticker/blob/master/src/dashboard/js/detail.js#L146

I think (2) should be relatively easy to implement (some refactoring of the code to generalize moving the graph hover forward/back might be desirable so that we don't end up with duplication). I'm not actually sure what's involved with (1) offhand but hopefully it's not too difficult. Feel free to ask questions in channel if you're stuck.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

:wlach, this bug is 6 months old with no action:
a) is it still a valid bug.  I know code bases change over time
b) is this something we could realistically have somebody fix?

Comment 2

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

It's still valid, but eideticker's pretty inactive these days; it's unclear to me whether that will change. Let's unmark this as a mentored bug for now.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Eideticker has been discontinued, see bug 1361056