Issue with activity help

[chimosky]

The help button is only supposed to show how to play the game, but it's too long and shows that and more, it also opens a new window - screenshot attached below - which doesn't close when the close button on the window is clicked, this window appears at the end of the help video.

There's also no way to close the help while viewing it, which is not good.

On second thought, we shouldn't use a video to display the help, it consumes memory more than is necessary, I looked and while the help is open, the activity memory consumption jumps from 8.1% to 15% which isn't great - you can see this with top -.

I understand that with opengl we're expected to use some memory, but viewing the help shouldn't almost double the amount of memory used.

Seems you added parts of the recording that aren't needed.

The activity logs contain this;

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/guest/Activities/Soma-Cube/activity.py", line 179, in _setup_content
    self._setup_video_player(max_width, max_height)
  File "/home/guest/Activities/Soma-Cube/activity.py", line 235, in _setup_video_player
    self.video_widget = videosink.get_property('widget')
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_property'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/guest/Activities/Soma-Cube/glview.py", line 1319, in <lambda>
    GLib.timeout_add(2000, lambda: self.statusbar.pop(0))
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'GLView' object has no attribute 'statusbar'

[Bishoywadea]

Okay, on Ubuntu it closes when clicking anywhere, but in Sugar this doesn’t happen. I’ll solve this.
But the main point is that the tutorial is too long.
At first, I made the help just plain text with the goal and controls, but you told me you wanted interactive help like in Implode, so I turned it into a video.
Now I have two options: either make the video 1.5x speed and reduce the quality, or return it back to text.
Which do you prefer, or would you like a different option?

[chimosky]

Okay, on Ubuntu it closes when clicking anywhere, but in Sugar this doesn’t happen. I’ll solve this.

This is why I ask you to test in Sugar so it'll be easier to notice these things.

But the main point is that the tutorial is too long.
At first, I made the help just plain text with the goal and controls, but you told me you wanted interactive help like in Implode, so I turned it into a video.
Now I have two options: either make the video 1.5x speed and reduce the quality, or return it back to text.
Which do you prefer, or would you like a different option?

If we're using a video, then let the video contain just the help that's needed, it contains that and more - which isn't needed -.
Increasing the video speed and reducing the quality doesn't solve the aforementioned problem.

Implode's help is all Gtk and not a video, I said something similar and not exactly because I don't want you to spend so much time implementing this.