BT 0.50

[archae86]

I was one of the folks for whom BT 0.49 crashed instantly on each launch I tried after installation.  I reverted to BT 0.46 for the last day.

Today I installed BT 0.50 by the same careless method I enjoy using when it works (not rebooting, not shutting AV and Firewall stuff, and not getting out of all applications).

Despite my carelessness, it installed and then started up just fine.  So the crash issue observed on my particular host seems to have been successfully resolved by the fix Fred mentioned in BT 0.50.

[jjwhalen]

BT 0.50 also fixed the startup problem at my house, reported in thread BT 0.49 Thanks.

[Corsair]

Hi Fred,

Set-up this version in my two controlling computers (x86 & x64) and both of them working correctly.

looks like that in computer windows the sorting doesn't work, I mean, I click on IP column and shows
sorting characteristic "^" but no change is shown in the screen.

[fred]

Hi Fred,

Set-up this version in my two controlling computers (x86 & x64) and both of them working correctly.

looks like that in computer windows the sorting doesn't work, I mean, I click on IP column and shows
sorting characteristic "^" but no change is shown in the screen.

The computer window is missing a lot of things. Like sorting and colors... still a work in progress.

[Corsair]

Hi Fred,

Set-up this version in my two controlling computers (x86 & x64) and both of them working correctly.

looks like that in computer windows the sorting doesn't work, I mean, I click on IP column and shows
sorting characteristic "^" but no change is shown in the screen.

The computer window is missing a lot of things. Like sorting and colors... still a work in progress.

but looks like very promising.

[glennaxl]

Switching from "all computers" to specific computer is fast now; You would only notice the improvement if you have clients connected through Internet(WAN). Tested it on peak hours and off-peak. Good Job!

In notification icon tooltip, what is the max length? I have a computer named with 11 chars and it shows the number of task running but with 13 chars it doesn't show but instead truncate it to 12 (and doesn't show "running: NN")
eg.
normal view:
computer12345, Running: 12
to:
computer1234

This is just some fancy item, nothing major. I think it would be best if you drop the whole line off cause the info given is not useful anyways. Or something new like this:
Total Running: NN
Non-Running: pc1=2, pc2=1, pc3=5

Non-running is the number of cores/threads that go idle for each computer.

[Corsair]

Hi Fred,

I don't know where the weird problem is?? in BOINC or BoincTasks??

BOINC client last official 6.10.43 (both x86 & x64) , in the row:

"While processor usage is less than [ X ] percent (0 means no restriction)"

OK, I set it to always "0", if something is done in BOINC or BoincTasks I don't
know why is found to the default value "25" and found that BOINC is throttling
my computers, when I don´t want that this would be done by BOINC, because
most of the time the applications are stopped because of high usage of CPU/GPU,
reported by BOINC manager.

I know that this feature is not yet implemented if BT, but from BOINC manager is
a weird fix really.

[glennaxl]

Hi Fred,

I don't know where the weird problem is?? in BOINC or BoincTasks??

BOINC client last official 6.10.43 (both x86 & x64) , in the row:

"While processor usage is less than [ X ] percent (0 means no restriction)"

OK, I set it to always "0", if something is done in BOINC or BoincTasks I don't
know why is found to the default value "25" and found that BOINC is throttling
my computers, when I don´t want that this would be done by BOINC, because
most of the time the applications are stopped because of high usage of CPU/GPU,
reported by BOINC manager.

I know that this feature is not yet implemented if BT, but from BOINC manager is
a weird fix really.

The problem lies with BT. If you set 0 in BOINC manager then later on update it with BT, things get screwed up. BT removes the line "<suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>".

In Fred's Task list: "BOINC Settings: Try to write back only changed items" should remove any future issues if BOINC manager has new item while BT hasn't been updated yet with that item.

[glennaxl]

Another issue which has been on and off with other versions is Projects tab item selection. Shift+click doesn't work. To select consecutive items, I have to use ctrl+click.

[fred]

Another issue which has been on and off with other versions is Projects tab item selection. Shift+click doesn't work. To select consecutive items, I have to use ctrl+click.

Should work, select the first item, press shift and select the last.

[fred]

Switching from "all computers" to specific computer is fast now; You would only notice the improvement if you have clients connected through Internet(WAN). Tested it on peak hours and off-peak. Good Job!

In notification icon tooltip, what is the max length? I have a computer named with 11 chars and it shows the number of task running but with 13 chars it doesn't show but instead truncate it to 12 (and doesn't show "running: NN")
eg.
normal view:
computer12345, Running: 12
to:
computer1234

This is just some fancy item, nothing major. I think it would be best if you drop the whole line off cause the info given is not useful anyways. Or something new like this:
Total Running: NN
Non-Running: pc1=2, pc2=1, pc3=5

Non-running is the number of cores/threads that go idle for each computer.

The toolbar is limited to 128 chars so there is room.
I will change things to:
Toolbar Icon: Only show computer name, when one computer is active. Like testcomputer next line Running: 8
Check why the computer name is limited to 12 characters.
If the number of computers is > 1 show the number of computers only. Like Computers 3 next line Running: 16.

[glennaxl]

Another issue which has been on and off with other versions is Projects tab item selection. Shift+click doesn't work. To select consecutive items, I have to use ctrl+click.

Should work, select the first item, press shift and select the last.

Yup it works but only a few hours from the time you start the application which is odd.
Started: 15 April 2010 - 23:33:58
Now: 16 April 2010 - 15:32:56

After sometime it loses that ability. Might be a bug?

[fred]

Another issue which has been on and off with other versions is Projects tab item selection. Shift+click doesn't work. To select consecutive items, I have to use ctrl+click.

Should work, select the first item, press shift and select the last.

Yup it works but only a few hours from the time you start the application which is odd.
Started: 15 April 2010 - 23:33:58
Now: 16 April 2010 - 15:32:56

After sometime it loses that ability. Might be a bug?

I made a note in the bug list.

[jjwhalen]

Another issue which has been on and off with other versions is Projects tab item selection. Shift+click doesn't work. To select consecutive items, I have to use ctrl+click.

Should work, select the first item, press shift and select the last.

Yup it works but only a few hours from the time you start the application which is odd.
Started: 15 April 2010 - 23:33:58
Now: 16 April 2010 - 15:32:56

After sometime it loses that ability. Might be a bug?

I made a note in the bug list.

Fred,
I'm not seeing this behavior (loss of block select [shift-click] function on the Projects tab) in BT 0.50.  Which is to say, I can still block select projects as I write this, after >30 hours of continuous up time.

This issue may be platform-specific, or it may be related to the bug I reported a few weeks ago:

(BUG) On the Projects tab, after a change in the project list (e.g., detaching a project), block select using the Shift key won't work until BT is shut down & restarted.  (Extended select using the Ctrl key still works though.).

Just a thought.

B/w

[Corsair]

(Fixed) Computer view: Computer menu: Detect, Add, Remove, where not translatable.  (done V 51 )

and in Show-Tabs - missing translation of "Computers"