General questions

[jjwhalen]

2 (more or less) unrelated questions:

1. What do you prefer as a viewer/editor for XML, and whence did you get it?  (I'm looking for something that's more sophisticated than a general text editor [Notepad/Wordpad], but won't choke on the inevitable syntax errors in BOINC-related XML output, as MS Word or MS XML Editor always do.)

2. For a given "Connect about every x.xx days" setting in Preferences, does the core client output time remaining to the next connection attempt (in client_state or wherever)?  You can probably see where this question is going

I guess technically that's 3 questions, so sue me

[fred]

2 (more or less) unrelated questions:

1. What do you prefer as a viewer/editor for XML, and whence did you get it?  (I'm looking for something that's more sophisticated than a general text editor [Notepad/Wordpad], but won't choke on the inevitable syntax errors in BOINC-related XML output, as MS Word or MS XML Editor always do.)

2. For a given "Connect about every x.xx days" setting in Preferences, does the core client output time remaining to the next connection attempt (in client_state or wherever)?  You can probably see where this question is going

I guess technically that's 3 questions, so sue me

1. As BOINC xml is xml sort of, but not according to normal rules. Any xml editor will have problems with it.
2. As everything is in the client_state, but the time will probably an absolute time, the next connection time. And the time will be a long number, not easily read by non machines.

[jjwhalen]

2. As everything is in the client_state, but the time will probably an absolute time, the next connection time. And the time will be a long number, not easily read by non machines.

I wasn't worrying about it being human-readable.  I was thinking in terms of: could you display the time of next connection attempt for Host XYZ (maybe similar to the last benchmark time you added to Extra>Run CPU benchmarks>... a few revisions ago)?  I think either an absolute time or time remaining would be helpful, as long as you translate it into a human time-scale.

This is one of those things that starts out as a question and maybe migrates to the wishlist.  If possible, this should obviously go in the Low Priority section

[fred]

2. As everything is in the client_state, but the time will probably an absolute time, the next connection time. And the time will be a long number, not easily read by non machines.

I wasn't worrying about it being human-readable.  I was thinking in terms of: could you display the time of next connection attempt for Host XYZ (maybe similar to the last benchmark time you added to Extra>Run CPU benchmarks>... a few revisions ago)?  I think either an absolute time or time remaining would be helpful, as long as you translate it into a human time-scale.

This is one of those things that starts out as a question and maybe migrates to the wishlist.  If possible, this should obviously go in the Low Priority section

I'm not sure if there is any fixed time that can be read anywhere.
Not come across anything like it.

[jjwhalen]

2. As everything is in the client_state, but the time will probably an absolute time, the next connection time. And the time will be a long number, not easily read by non machines.

I wasn't worrying about it being human-readable.  I was thinking in terms of: could you display the time of next connection attempt for Host XYZ (maybe similar to the last benchmark time you added to Extra>Run CPU benchmarks>... a few revisions ago)?  I think either an absolute time or time remaining would be helpful, as long as you translate it into a human time-scale.

This is one of those things that starts out as a question and maybe migrates to the wishlist.  If possible, this should obviously go in the Low Priority section

I'm not sure if there is any fixed time that can be read anywhere.
Not come across anything like it.

Obviously the client keeps an interval timer running - just a matter of whether it publishes the state of the timer or not.  No big deal, it was just a thought.