Robert Lancaster authored May 24, 2017 and Jasem Mutlaq committed May 24, 2017

Whenever you try to run it in hours or anything longer than that, the interface becomes much more unresponsive.  I figured it was an issue with an animation thread not sleeping long enough for the interface to have a chance to do other things.  I investigated that today and found that I was close.  There is a QTimer with a time interval that is used for the time simulation normally, but if you go beyond a certain speed, it just set the clock and didn't use a timer.  It seems to be called "manual tick."  Well the problem is that it needs to wait a moment before doing that so the interface can respond to any other commands.  I found the solution was very simple, a one shot timer, even one as short as 1 millisecond seems to solve the problem.

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