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#31

Wish List / Re: Fix "exclusive application...

Last post by Joseph Stateson - March 15, 2025, 03:21:55 AM

!!! Yea I missed that.  it is actually a BOINC type setting. I was looking in boinctasks.

I appears to work exactly the same way as the BOINC Manager's "Exclusive Applications" which I never use.  I had only one application that needed exclusive use of the GPU:  "DVDFab" which converted bluray disks to MP4.  With redbox and netflix no longer in the rental business I rarely use that app.

#32

Cloud / Cannot open grouped tasks

Last post by hucker - March 15, 2025, 01:58:43 AM

How do I open a group of tasks?  I double click in Boinctasks.  This doesn't work in cloud.

#33

Wish List / Re: Remember dialog box positi...

Last post by hucker - March 15, 2025, 01:38:03 AM

If possible can you make it remember just by finishing with the dialog box?  I have it running all the time, so probably the next time Boinctasks is closed will be a crash of Boinctasks (I see it silently restart sometimes), or me using windows shutdown or restart command, but the computer tends to run for about 6-9 months between restarts.

#34

Wish List / Re: Fix "exclusive application...

Last post by hucker - March 15, 2025, 01:35:46 AM

How do I use it?  There are three blank fields with no description.  I'm expecting to enter one piece of info, the exe name.

#35

Wish List / Re: BOINC's project list often...

Last post by fred - March 15, 2025, 12:33:12 AM

With some projects it's a mess.
BOINC should be able to handle this, I think this is a BOINC problem.
Or the project that uses the wrong URL.

The all_projects_list.xml isn't accesible.

The only option you have is to remove the projects and add the projects to all computers at once.

#36

Wish List / Re: Remember dialog box positi...

Last post by fred - March 15, 2025, 12:18:42 AM

The locations should be stored, but ONLY if you exit BoincTasks, so you have to do this once.
Hitting the power button to close the system, may bypass storing things.

#37

Wish List / Re: Fix "exclusive application...

Last post by fred - March 15, 2025, 12:17:10 AM

In BoincTasks go to BOINC Settings and the last tab = Exclusive applications.

#38

Wish List / Re: Fix "exclusive application...

Last post by Joseph Stateson - March 13, 2025, 03:19:21 PM

I attempted to put in an exclusive application for a remote computer using Boinctasks.  Firstly, what on earth are the three fields for?  There is only one piece of information Boinc needs - the name of the executable.  Secondly, when I browse for the file, it uses the folders on my local machine, not the remote one.  Thirdly, it didn't save it (this may be because I don't know which field to put what in, they're not labelled!)

I cannot find that option the way you are describing.  I looked at both windows versions of BT (the .js and the .exe)
I have been using the cc_config.xml editor in the .exe version to add (for example)

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   <options>
      <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
      <exclusive_gpu_app>DVDFab.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
      <allow_remote_gui_rpc>1</allow_remote_gui_rpc>
   </options>

I am running older versions of boinc and just a few days ago looked at boinctasks.js for the first time. I have only windows system to run boinctasks on so I might be overlooking where those options are.

#39

Wish List / Fix "exclusive applications"

Last post by hucker - March 12, 2025, 10:59:14 PM

I attempted to put in an exclusive application for a remote computer using Boinctasks.  Firstly, what on earth are the three fields for?  There is only one piece of information Boinc needs - the name of the executable.  Secondly, when I browse for the file, it uses the folders on my local machine, not the remote one.  Thirdly, it didn't save it (this may be because I don't know which field to put what in, they're not labelled!)

#40

Wish List / Remember dialog box positions

Last post by hucker - March 12, 2025, 09:19:54 PM

Perhaps exacerbated by me having multiple monitors, Boinctasks doesn't remember where for example the boinc preferences dialog was last used.  In my case it's going to monitor 1 even though boinctasks is on another screen.  Please either make it remember the last position of the dialog, even remember globally for every dialog, or make it appear somewhere in the Boinctasks main window area, say the middle.