Fixed: Task view: Sorting is sometimes done on a 3th column even as this column is not selected. Removed hidden sorting columns. Reintroduced the | indicator for now. The computer column may need the | set to disable sorting.
Fixed: Task view: Multicore project tasks displayed a CPU % of more than 100%. Now CPU% = CPU% / CPU cores. Maxed at 100%.
Fixed: Task view: Sometimes with progress below 1% the progress was not shown properly. Now the alternative way is only used when the progress % is below 0.01%. This is only uses in the first phase of GPU Tasks.
0.42 February 2010
New: A check in the Expert dialog to enable or disable password encryption. (default is off).
Changed: Filter, use the project as well, to separate tasks from SETI and SETI Beta.
Changed: The number of remote computers is now 40, was 20.
Changed: Non cpu intensive projects like FreeHAL that don't set the use value now default to 0.025 C.
Changed: History, moved some memory from main to stack, to fight crashes on some computers with a large (+5000) history. A history above 1000 is not recommended.
Fixed: The sorting on the Use column did not work.
0.41 February 2010
New: Project view: Show WU in stock per project.
New: A clear button in the logging dialog.
Changed: Gadget window, the default time is now 1 second, but it stays there anyway, as long as the cursor is over the icon.
Fixed: The new CPU % mode did not work properly, in the non combined mode.
Fixed: When a project or projects where suspended, by the project or user, the tasks still showed the running color.
Fixed: Removed the suspended message, when tasks are ready to report.
Fixed: Autostart with, in the Extra menu was not translated.
Fixed: History view: A task sometimes stays in: Updating, please wait. Do a state refresh immediately to resolve the name, because next time the task may be gone.
Fixed: Redraw the icon after an Windows explorer.exe/desktop/file explorer crash.
Fixed: History view: Did not remove history of unconnected computers, in the set time period.
0.40 January 2010
New: A snooze function from the taskbar menu.
New: Suspend/resume network communication.
New: In the BoincTasks settings dialog -> general tab: A hot key to show and hide BoincTasks.
New: A new option for the CPU %, a fast mode that also supports older clients, always showing 100%. This mode will respond faster to changes and warnings should appear quicker.
Changed: The gadget window now doesn't show any tasks, on a computer that is snoozing (suspended by user).
Changed: The view immediately updates when restored from minimized or iconic (hidden) state.
Changed: When multiple tasks of the same project/computer are selected, execute project operations like refresh/resume/pause only once.
Changed: The minimum height for the Gadget Window is now reduced to 1 line.
Fixed: When updated from a version before 0.39 an incorrect selected language was shown in the logging (but not actually selected).
Fixed: The menu Help->Update is grayed out in all views except the Tasks view.
Fixed: a state of 20001 now shows as Ready to start.
0.39 January 2010
New: A language override file BoincTasks_OVERRIDE.btlang, to change specific text, without the need to modify the main language file.
More translated text.
Changed: The logging now shows the selected language.
Changed: The Computer->Find dialog, now uses a thread in the scan addresses, this will no longer make the whole program sluggish or freeze up.
Changed: Computer view: When closing, don't show the warning message, but ask for a reconnect instead.
Fixed: The logging did not show the system language number correctly.
Fixed: When the language selection was not set to System, settings between different BoincTasks version may result in a wrongly selected languages.
Fixed: On a computer with no preference stored (Cleared), the extra-> BOINC preference dialog doesn't appear.
0.38 January 2010
New: First release with a unified 32 and 64 bit installer.
New: Romanian and German.
Changed: More translated text.
Changed: History view: A warning when the keep days is below the previous setting.
Changed: History view: A longer time period of 365 days.
Changed: A major reduction in the memory usage by 2/3.
Fixed: The logging did not show the language code correctly.
0.37 January 2010
New: Computers -> Find computers: A dialog to show a list of all computers, that are found and have BOINC/TThrottle running. Add selected computers to the computer list.
Changed: More translated text.
Fixed: When the inner window was maximized and the computer window was open as well, the inner window was not shown maximized on restart.
Fixed: A rare memory leak on exiting, introduced in V 0.35 Beta (gadget window)
Fixed: Closing the combined window, while the gadget window is visible, will result in a crash.
Fixed: When the combined window is closed: Moving the mouse over the BoincTasks icon, while the gadget window is enabled, will result in a popup or sometimes in a crash.
0.36 January 2010
Changed: Gadget window, now displays colors for CPU & GPU running, high priority and deadline warning.
Changed: Remove unnecessary status for keys like CAPS.
Changed: Move the BoincTasks status text to a separate status line, so it doesn't overwrites the info message from the menu selection.
Changed: If the Gadget is set to show over the icon, it will disappear for 5 seconds when the icon is clicked.
Changed: History: Gives text -6,VLAR in Seti.
Changed: More translated text.
0.35 December 2009
Changed: More text is translatable.
New: A partial Spanish translation.
New: Show status when hovering over the icon in the taskbar. The Gadget window will popup for a set time.
New: Gadget window, can be shown anywhere on the screen. The window is fully scalable.
0.34 December 2009
New: The logging dialog now displays: User, System and used language.
New: Make the program translatable, this will be a step by step process.
Fixed: USE % is max 100%, even when a project uses more than one CPU. Max should be according to the number of cores used. 2 C = max 200%.
0.33 December 2009
New: A icon in the computer bar indicates not connected.
New: The add project dialog now has an option, to create an account, while adding a project.
Changed: Tasks view: Different gpu detection. Now Use value is used. If + or , xx > 0, gpu is used. This is used for the color rows only.
Changed: Tasks view: Warnings improved handling of different CPU / GPU use. It's now possible to tailor warnings to specific tasks. Read the manual for more details.
Changed: Removed quick and dirty mode. (obsolete)
Fixed: Tasks view: Throttle displays 101% when there is no GPU detected, now 0.
Fixed: Task view: Cpu % column is not shown properly. Too small.
Fixed: Project view: The sorting of the credit columns was sometimes incorrect. (off by a couple of credits)
Fixed: A potential crash when closing BoincTasks.
0.32 December 2009
New: Task view: Right click on task menu: Update, Suspend, Resume Project.
New: A toolbar for: Task: suspend, resume and abort, Project: update, suspend, resume, no new work, allow new work. Works in the Project and Tasks view.
Changed: Additional checking on the (tool)bars so they won't cause crashes when the stored values are corrupt or inconsistent.
Fixed: Tasks view: Preference didn't work.
Fixed: Tasks view: A column may be too small to show up, in this case show it.
Fixed: Task view: When a project is suspended by user, it doesn't show. It now shows: Project suspended.
0.31 December 2009
New: Task view: Column Use, how much GPU and CPU a task is asking. Like 0.21C + 1.00NV or 0.04C + 1.00NV.
New: Settings dialog -> Tasks check "Condense Use column", to make the Use column text more compact.
Changed: Message view: Now the focus is locked on the last line and only by clicking to another line above the last, the lock is released. Now as soon as the user wants to scroll remove the lock on the last line.
Changed: Task view: While filtered give real () class instead of (gpu); like (cuda), (cuda23) or (ABP1cuda23).
Changed: Task view: Show the real temperature, for the individual GPU's, instead of the max temperature for all of them.
Changed: When the right mouse key is clicked, select the item is nothing is selected. For a quicker menu selection.
Changed: The Yes/No dialog for tasks, now has columns and the system font.
Fixed: Non combined mode: Task view: Apply changes to the columns didn't work for all windows.
Fixed: Non combined mode: Task view: Setting the first column to computer, didn't work.
Fixed: Task view: Suspend, Abort etc doesn't work, most of the time.
Fixed: History view: The maximum number was 23 instead of 30, as shown in the dropdown list.
0.30 November 2009
New: Task view: Column Throttle and Temperature for TThrottle integration.
New: Settings General: Connect to TThrottle check. Connects using the BOINC port+1 = 31417.
New: Task view: Filter on Computation errors.
New: Task view: A dialog to rearrange the column order or hide one or more.
Changed: History view: The tasks that cross the remove deadline are removed all at once.
Changed: Close down sequence.
Fixed: Task view: Filter on suspended sometimes did still filter, even when the filter was disabled.
0.29 November 2009
New: History view: Completed, time a task was detected uploading/ready to report.
New: History view: Copy to clipboard.
New: Task view: Filter on suspended tasks.
Changed: Task view: Suspended mode cpu usage limit (throttle) message is no longer reported.
Fixed: Message view: Sometimes the message screen keeps refreshing.
Fixed: When selection filtered tasks, the selection was applied to all tasks with the same number of filtered tasks.
0.28 November 2009
New: Task view: Selecting filtered task to perform task like suspend, resume and abort.
New: Task view: Show/set filter with the right mouse click (context) menu.
New: History view: Make one with the completed WU by day / project / computers. Results are also logged in a file.
Changed: Icons.
Changed: Task view: In filter, use the application name to distinguish between task that have the same version number.
Changed: In the WWW list (right mouse key in Project/Task view), when the list is empty use the default project name.
Changed: The combined mode is now the default startup choice.
Fixed: Project view: Sorting on numbers is not correct with larger numbers.
Fixed: Don't let string errors result in aborts.
Fixed: In the non combined mode: The disk usage is not shown.
0.27 November 2009
New: Shutting down the BOINC client and stopping of the science exe, in the File menu.
New: Starting the BOINC client in the File menu.
New: Message view: Copy selected text from messages to the clipboard.
New: A third column sorting, using the right control key. The left is used for second column sorting.
Changed: The computer selection bar, starts with all computers selected.
Changed: The computer selection bar, is more tree like, with an all computer selector.
Changed: Made the toolbar shorter, so it doesn't includes doubles, with the view selection bar.
Changed: The sorting is no longer case sensitive (lower case sorting).
Fixed: In property the disk usage was always 0.
Fixed: The row marking colors, (dark, lighter) were sometimes off.
Fixed: The uploads where not filtered.
Fixed: Some passwords refused to be stored. Hopefully this version is completely compatible with the previous versions.
Fixed: Message view: Non combined mode: On rare occasions there were blank lines with init in the first column.
Fixed: Transfer view: The sorting on the % was incorrect.
0.26 October 2009
New: Task view: A filter for uploads and downloads.
New: The menu selection for startup, now in all windows.
New: A Tab (dock-able window) with Projects, Tasks, Transfer, Messages. Can be placed e.g. above the window for easy switching.
Changed: Message view: A better way to select the messages. E.g. from the computer selection bar, if only one is selected use that as the selected computer.
Changed: Modify the computer selection bar, to make it behave more consistent with the main window.
Fixed: The check "Start BoincTasks at login", did work, but didn't stick. It was alway unchecked.
Fixed: Message view: Sometimes there are blank lines.
Fixed: The deadline day/hour were not correctly saved.
0.25 October 2009
New: A link in the Help menu, to the BoincTasks forum.
New: Error on CPU and GPU ratio, now user definable. Was fixed at 50%.
New: Task view: A color for tasks that have gone over the deadline and a dialog setting for the time.
New: Message view: Colors for all available priority classes. normal, high, higher.
New: Project view: Add colors for all states. e.g. No new tasks, suspended.
New: Message view: Message number.
New: Store all window positions for the next time. You have to use exit.
Changed: Task view: The minimum refresh rate is now 6,2,1 seconds, for slow, normal, quick. The minimum time was 1 second.
Changed: Task view: The progress % is now the same as with BOINC Manager, except for < 1%.
Changed: The color dialog now has tabs. The colors from previous versions can't be retrieved, they are now incompatible.
New: Status messages when tasks are suspended, like Benchmark, user active.
New: Transfer view: Added Abort.
New: A way to jump to the various project URL's and go to the corresponding website.
Changed: Application version notation now 1.23, instead of 123.
Changed: Gpu tasks when filtered now called (gpu), unfiltered or single ones are now (xxxx) with xxx = the plan class.
Fixed: In some projects, when the task is not running, the version number is 0, but the application name is correct.
Fixed: In the preference processor dialog the % of the processors - Minutes text where incorrect, switched them.
Fixed: If the version number = 0, try another location.
Fixed: Message view: In some cases the time was not displayed at all, depended on the local time setting. Time is now display. as in the Tasks view.
0.23 October 2009
New: When BoincTasks starts, check if the BOINC client is running, if not start it. Only possible for the localhost. As an option in the setting dialog. (marked as experimental)
New: Waiting counter in the non combined mode.
New: Colors for suspended: CPU and GPU.
Changed: At startup, the Task view is shown faster.
Changed: While in the (non) combined window the computer->Show menu was not active, only the icon.
Changed: If there is a password provided for localhost, use it, otherwise read it from the local password file.
Changed: Finally found a way to get around most of the annoying flickering, when the display is updated.
Changed: Use the manual time override (in the dialog), for refreshing in all views.
Fixed: A memory leak (potential crash) when BoincTasks was closed immediately after startup.
Fixed: In the preference dialog, settings where sometimes lost. Added to the dialog: preference -> processor and network: time/day override, and everything else that was missing.
Fixed: When adding a computer, the password hide **** was in the port location.
Fixed: Filtering ready to start tasks, that are suspended. Are now displayed as suspended.
Fixed: In the non combined mode, task view: Selecting and changing the mode, e.g. suspend sometimes changes another task than the one selected. Affects only the non combined mode.
0.22 October 2009
New: Expand the settings dialog with a couple of tabs, to make room for the future.
New: Added additional information, about connection errors, to the debug logging.
New: Make it possible to add a port number like ip 192.168.10.1 port 31417 or localhost port 31417.
Changed: A filtered task of one: display the actual task.
Fixed: Change the CPU % to 0% on waiting to run.
Fixed: Suspending a ready to start task is done, but not displayed properly.
Fixed: The update button, in the update dialog pointed to the wrong location and didn't work.
Fixed: Sometimes you get the wrong application name, but only with specific projects. In the settings dialog -> expert you can choose the quick mode. The slower, but more reliable method is now the default one.
Fixed: In the filtered tasks sometimes the application nr and name is wrong.
Fixed: Change the CPU % to 0% on waiting to run.
Fixed: The debug logging seems to generate crashes, rewritten.
Fixed: Sometimes the progress bar is missing, when a task is in Waiting to run.
0.21 October 2009
New: In the task view, an extra column added for the actual runtime percentage.
New: In the task view, a color option if the runtime % is below or above 50%. A color setting in the color menu.
Changed: In the task view, added a day indicator before (elapsed) time.
Changed: In the task view, changed the time alignment to the right.
Fixed: In the project view, the percentage in the non combined mode was way off.
Fixed: The taskbar icon way not removed after exiting.
Fixed: In the task view, The message Updating in the project column did not disappear. The name/project name resolve routines are revised.
Fixed: In the message view, if the log was too long a couple of invalid entries (doubles) would appear.
Fixed: In the project view, in the non combined mode, the properties were displayed incorrect.
0.20 October 2009 First release version
New: Add the automatic update in taskbar menu (working).
New: A setting in the Extra->Settings dialog: Start BoincTasks at login/startup.
New: A setting in the Extra->Settings dialog: Refresh rate, Slow, Normal, Quick and Manual.
New: A setting in the Extra->Settings dialog: Time format, System, 12h and 24h. The 12/24h give leading 0.
New: A setting in the Extra->Settings dialog: Xml path, this an override for the default xml file location.
New: Sorting of the Project and Transfer Window (2 way).
New: A dockable window to select one or more computers in the combined mode. (can be hidden, using the view menu)
New: In the project view, added credits and average computer credits.
Thank you for using BoincTasks.
Contact: b#o#i#n#c#at#efmer.eu (without the # and at = @)
To Download the BoincTasks Library needed to compile BoincTasks with the most recent copy of BOINC. Download BoincTasksLibrary.rar