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V 0.52

(Add) French by http://www.grid-france.fr/.
(Add) Snooze GPU in the taskbar.
(Add) Transfers: project backoff.
(Add) Color dialog: Tab view: Grid color, Text font color, Bar (outline) color.
(Changed) Removed (obsolete) menu autostart.
(Changed) Removed (obsolete) computer icons from the toolbar computer.
(Changed) Selection: Shift click will only set the last selection marker when nothing is selected yet. The selecting is everything from the last selection marker, to and including the shift click point.
(Fixed) All views: It's no longer possible to close the view, except by using exit.
(Fixed) Selection: Problems with shift click. (clear the unused strings and last selection marker, when the selection is no longer valid).
(Fixed) Projects: Shift + click is not working properly.

I haven't asked for a new feature in awhile, so:

It would be helpful to be able to do a quick filter of Messages by project, similar to "Show only this project" in BOINCMgr.  It would be easy to go overboard with filtering Messages by various criteria, but I think this simple one would be very helpful.  As an example, I often like to check my CPDN tasks to see when the last trickle-up report was sent.  This tends to get lost among the Messages on a quad/GPU host with 10~15 tasks either Running or Waiting--especially if I have any debug logging switches turned on

Prioritize this however you see fit.

Best wishes.

Done, but my priorities are not always that logical. Sometimes I pick an easy one along.

There is only 1 thing i can wish for , and that is that you never stop developing this tool
I just started using 0.51 and it's GREAT !!!

Thank you so much 

Thanks for the support, I have no intention of stopping.

I get the message "the setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program.
WIN 7 with all updates.

Try the download again.
I just tried a download on a win 7 X64 and installed it ok.
X32 looks ok but I have no machine at the moment to install it.

Ahh. . .good answer, thanks.  I had the ToDo list up on a 2nd browser tab as I was drafting the question, and right after I posted I refreshed and saw the new entries for v0.52.  I said "wherever Fred is, he must've been reading my mind."  Scary

Must be the Sedona ca redrocks.

The final for the next version: BoincTasks_DEU.btlang_v0.51_v0.1.

Thanks also to aendgraend and Saenger.  

Done.

I noticed during the discussion of glenaxl's Shift+click bug: you said

select the first item, press shift and select the last,

which of course is exactly right  The thing is, I've noticed that on the Task, Transfers, Messages or History tabs, you can block select rows either from the top down or bottom up.  But on the Projects tab you can only select a block of rows from the top down--bottom up will not work.  But on any tab you can Ctrl+click (extended select) in either direction.

I'm posing this as a question rather than a bug, because I'm just curious--what is different about the Projects list from the other tabs that makes it behave this way?  I've always assumed that BT uses a simple spreadsheet- or flat file database-type table structure, to allow for the various datatypes you have to display and manipulate.  (Don't feel obligated to disclose any "trade secrets")

Best wishes.

I was just working on that and noticed the bug in the projects. I changed something more in the selection. for all other tabs to make it more consistent with Windows. See the change list.

No it's not that simple as with a spreadsheet. BT uses the MFC (C++) highly adapted class CListViewEx. It connects to the Window API, as this sort of list are quite common, so it's part of the OS, sort of.
Most tabs use a selection class that handles all the selection stuff. But somethings make selection more complicated, like the tasks list that is constantly changing.
So I have to lock on a specific task and computer to keep the selection synchronized.

Hi everybody,

what does mean "Project Backoff" the translations I've found in the web there are not satisfactory
I think, something like "Abandoning / abandoned Project" ??

this is to translate into Spanish, but I should have to know more or less what is the meaning,
never mind the answer in English, just to now what is that??

thanks in advanced.

It's in the transfer, and the same text is in BOINC Manger.
It's similar to: Retry in, but than for all the upload/download of the entire project.
All upload of the project will wait for the Backoff time, overriding any Retry in time.
Simple to test unplug the Internet and when the upload tries, it will go into project backoff in a couple of times. (only visible in BoincManager for now of course.

V 0.52

<GroupViewTransfers>
   <StatusProjectBackoff>   Project backoff      </>
</GroupViewTransfers>

<GroupDialogColor>
   <TitleGeneral>      View            </>
   <GeneralGrid>      Grid lines         </>
   <GeneralFont>      Text font         </>
   <GeneralBar>      Bar            </>
   <GeneralBarOutline>   Bar outline         </>
</GroupDialogColor>

V 1.76: Released April 2010

Changed: A special regulator with large amounts of processes.
Changed: The list is automatically rebuild quicker, when throttle levels are below 6% was 15%. (less overhead when the throttle is close to max).
Changed: Exclude BoincTasks.exe from the general throttle.
Changed: The general rule timer from 2 to 4 seconds.
Fixed: A rare TThrottle crash.

Computers window:

    * x64 version, port, warehouse days  and wanted tasks not shown
 

My X64 shows everything just fine.

Fatal error in language file; Group: <GroupMenuComputer> string header in pos 115, <Computers> not found; Only exist in ENU though.

quick fix is to modify: BoincTasks_ENU.btlang and insert the line
"   <Computers>      Computers      </>"
under
<GroupMenuComputer>

So it would look like this:

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<GroupMenuComputer>
<Detect> Find computers </>
<Add> Add computer </>
<Remove> Remove computer </>
<ConnectCombined> Connect combined </>
<Connect> Connect </>
<Computers> Computers </>
</GroupMenuComputer>

I've checked this too and the solution you say is the one I've applied and works.

I posted the new corrected installer with the same name. After starting it reports 0.51.1 with the correct language file.
This happens when you use Cut Paste instead of Copy Paste, out of the original English file.
And a last minute change like this one is never wise.

A note of caution:

This defeats an intended security feature of the virus scanner. It may make the virus scanner more vulnerable to threads.

Jim wrote this nice article that may help others.

Summary:
o Comodo and avast! virus scan overheating solutions with TThrottle
o Rules question
o Configuration

1. Comodo and avast! virus scan overheating solutions
I'm running a GigaByte EX58-UD3R-SLI board (i7 processor) under Vista 64. I worked the last two days with TThrottle 1.75 trying to overcome a heating problem when BOINC tasks and COMODO Internet Security virus scans are running at the same time. I saw the hint on your forum to try Avast!, but this displays the same problem.

It turns out that both comodo and avast! have self protection features that disable throttling the scans. I've attached a PDF file with screen shots and instructions to disable these features and restore temperature control by TThrottle. The "protection" appears to make these exe files run as "SYSTEM"  rather than "Administrator" or "User". With the Task Manager, you can see the change.

See pdf below.

Jim uses the rules tab throttle.

tthrottle_avast_comodo.pdf

V 0.51

(Add) Computer view: TThrottle version column.
(Add) Computer view: Connection status column.
(Add) BOINC preference dialog -> processor: While processor usage is less than 0 Percent (0 means no restriction).
(Add) Task view: Suspend: cpu usage > .
(Changed) Move to BOINC 6_10_43.
(Changed) Removed the status text from the Window title. As the status in now in the Computer view.
(Changed) Computer view: Changing the computer name resulted in the loss of the history (file couldn't be found). The file is now renamed automatically.
(Fixed) Graphic shows the same color on computers with similar names.
(Fixed) Computer view: Computer menu: Detect, Add, Remove, where not translatable.