snake does not move at a regular speed

[Tom Bell]

The snake moves faster when moving up or down than left or right on widescreen displays due to more character 'cells' in the curses screen. This could/should be regulated somehow.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

We don't have any `sleep` statement, so I guess it must be the poor efficiency of our program thats making the snake go at a normal speed. We'll need to find an alternative to the `sleep` statement that will take into account the time it takes for the program to run so that games will run at the same speed on both fast computers and slow computers. We also better look into the program's efficiency (bug #631702).

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

This will need to be fixed before 1.0.

[Tom Bell (bushbaby2511)]

Related issues:

[Tom Bell (bushbaby2511)]

Related issues:
    * Esc key pauses snake for a second
    * Holding down a key speeds up the snake due to more update calls per cycle. (This indicates that the code execution speed
      is fine and the issue lies in the handling of the main function (possibly halfdelay(1)?? for 1/10 second delay...))

Sorry for repost. Connection issues

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Sorry, I should have read up on `curses.halfdelay()` when I added it to the program. Thanks for the explanation - I'm glad to hear that our program isn't terribly slow.

I've created two new bugs for the related issues:
  * `Esc` key pauses snake for a second (bug #631804)
  * Holding down a key increases snake speed (bug #631801)

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

When you slow the program right down you can see that the snake moves at a consistent cell per second rate whichever direction you go. However, since monospace text is higher than it is wide, the snake moves at an inconsistent pixel per second rate, therefore this is merely a graphical bug.

Correct me if I am wrong.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

If I am correct that it is a graphical bug as described above, we're going to have a hard time fixing it.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

This may be impossible to fix, there certainly is no easy solution.