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BoincTasks [All languages **] For: XP, Vista, Windows 7
** Bulgarian, Dutch (Nederlands), English, French (français), German (Deutsch), Romanian (Romaneste), Spanish (Español)
New: Silent reboot option (Expert tab: default enabled). BoincTasks will silently reboot when it crashes.
New: When a part of the program gets stuck, for 2 minutes, it will reload the window.
New: Warning colors for work < xx / project or / computer. Separate settings for CPU and GPU. Used in Projects view and Gadget.
Changed: The logging no longer locks the logging file.
Changed: Projects: The suspended color is now takes precedence over all others.
Changed: History: The timing is now adaptive. Between 1 - 30 seconds. Should result in less overhead and misses.
Changed: History: Status column adds (u) when the last know state is uploading.
Changed: Moved menu item: report all tasks to projects.
Changed: Moved menu item: show log items to show.
Changed: BoincTasks is now rescheduler friendly, it will no longer lock the BOINC client.
Fixed: The menu selection for: The BOINC preferences/proxy dialog, don't function in Computers and History.
Fixed: History: Sometimes the device number was missing. Now capture the resources while running.
Fixed: Properties: The properties dialog now always has the focus.
0.66 July 2010
New: Rules: Time period, rule is active from xx:xx - yy:yy. E.g. Suspend a project at 01:00 - 06:00, Resume a project at 06:00 - 12:00.
New: Rules: Status count. E.g. When there are 8 errors within 10 minutes, suspend a project. When there are 8 uploads within the 24 hours, suspend a project.
New: Rules: Event Resume project.
New: Task properties.
Changed: BOINC 6.10.58 is now the latest supported version.
Changed: Project properties, expanded.
Changed: More text in the crash popup.
Changed: The installer is now trusted.
Fixed: The installer now includes the dbghelp.dll files in the install folder, needed for XP.
Fixed: Rules: Deleted rules, showed op the next time BoincTasks started.
Fixed: Rules: A rule on an non existing computer name, could lock up the rule handling.
Fixed: Projects / Gadget: The task count and times where off by quite a bit, when non CPU intensive tasks where running.
Fixed: XP 32 chooses Arial bold instead of Arial, use Verdana instead.
0.65 July 2010
New: Typing "silver bullet" in the logging window, will pop up a warning message. Choosing yes will cause a memory protection error, for crash dump testing.
New: Double click on a rule to edit. The same as select->Edit button.
Changed: When you try to start BoincTasks for the second time, show the already running program.
Changed: The add projects dialog now has minimize.
Fixed: When a rule was edited, the rule was disabled. (check removed).
Fixed: When there is no Internet connection, the program startup time was too long.
Fixed: On some OS / computers the icons are not transparent.
Fixed: On some older OS versions the default fonts where not found, fall back on Arial as a last resort.
0.64 July 2010
New: A font selection in Extra -> color settings. Sets general and gadget font.
Changed: The tooltip is now updated every 120 seconds and when the mouse moves over the icon.
Changed: Rules dialog: Selection is now done with a selection row. The check is now used for enabling/disabling the rules.
Changed: Add a warning in the rules log, when the history is switched off.
Changed: Add a warning in the gadget, that the history is switched off.
Fixed: Gadget: No CPU/GPU showed up as (1).
Fixed: Gadget/Projects: Included completed tasks in the count, now it only shows tasks that have a remaining time.
Fixed: Rule editor: The "Show logging" check was gone, when you edited the rule again.
Fixed: Settings dialog->Gadget. When typing in the refresh time, the dialog looses focus and the cursor.
Fixed: Project view: When the CPU time was 0, it showed -03d,17:34:40 now is shows - / 03d,17:34:40.
0.63 June 2010
New: Update: Option to automatically check for updates, every time the program starts. Pops up the Update dialog, when there is a new version.
New: Update: Option to check for beta versions as well.
New: Alternative gadget: Mode Computes: Shows computer statistics, CPU/GPU work and estimated work time.
Changed: Projects: Tasks and Time left column now give CPU / GPU data.
Changed: The rule time base is now 1 minute instead of 0.5 minute.
Changed: Gadget, get the information from the history instead of fetching it from the host. (less overhead)
Changed: Tooltip: Shows only nr of computers and tasks if computers > 3.
Changed: Gadget: A user adjustable hover delay of 1 second and up.
Changed: Graphic: Only add projects, that are at least 3 characters long. This doesn't show projects, that are incompletely attached.
Changed: History: Update the tasks count/time statistics only every other cycle. E.g. every 0.5 minute.
Fixed: Gadget: Didn't show the high priority color.
Fixed: Gadget: Some CPU work showed up with the GPU color.
Fixed: When a tasks was completed, it sometimes showed values over 100%.
0.62 June 2010
New: Settings->History: Added 0-23 hours.
New: Graphic: Option to combine projects, in one graph.
New: BoincMonitor V 0.1, a BOINC logging program. It reads all reported tasks.
New: Show tooltips when the text in a column is too small and the text is truncated.
Changed: If the IP Address has anything with 127.0.0.1, or anything with localhost the IP Address is changed to localhost.
Changed: The history warning number from 3000 to 6000.
Fixed: 2 screens, the right one is primary. The last window position isn't restored properly.
Fixed: The progress bar goes beyond it's limits, is now limited to 100%.
Fixed: A small memory leak (HOST_INFO -> COPROC).
0.60 June 2010
New: rules. Partial implementation, for now,shows only the rule color. More in the next version. Forum rules topic
Fixed: History shows status: f0000-state:. Should show missed.
Fixed: Menu View: Sidebar computer selection, the V(selected) is missing.
Fixed: History: Should be fixed, but it wasn't: Einstein@Home/3.02 Global Correlations S5 search #1 (S5GCESSE2) still showed as GPU task.
0.59 June 2010
New: History: State missed, a state gone from running to gone.
New: Computers: Menu->Find Computers Doesn't automatically starts with find, use the Find button instead.
New: Computers: Menu->Find Computers A password can be entered to connect and authenticate with the BOINC client. Used to retrieve the (host) computer name.
New: Computers: Menu->Find Computers the BOINC column, will now show the connection status with the BOINC client.
Changed: Updated the installer: Multi language, don't install when BT is still running.
Changed: Computers: The status column, shows not connected(R), (read error) when a connection times out.
Changed: Computers: The status, bottom of the screen, now shows waiting / updating.
Changed: History: The interval timer is now locked to the wall clock at a 12 second interval.
Changed: Menu: Removed Window menu.
Changed: Menu: Extra->update all projects: renamed Extra>Report all completed tasks.
Changed: First time use: Use the computer name for the localhost automatically instead of using this.
Fixed: A connection and BoincTasks sometimes got stuck. Added a 30 second connection timeout.
Fixed: Computers: Shows TThrottle version number even as the remote computer is not connected/has TThrottle installed.
Fixed: History: Did not show elapsed time on missed tasks.
Fixed: History: Copy the clipboard, now shows the computer and use in all lines.
Fixed: History some tasks are marked as GPU but they are CPU tasks, do it the same way as in Tasks.
Fixed: Ratio warning: Always showed the GPU color for CPU and GPU.
0.58 May 2010
New: Logging: Log the BoincTasks version number.
New: BOINC Setting : 'Transfer at most X Megabytes every N days' preference.
New: Messages: - Right click menu, show only selected projects.
Changed: Find Computers Dialog: Scan address range: Now finds any computer within a few seconds.
Changed: Find Computers Dialog: Find at startup and Find again are now able to abort, with the cancel button.
Changed: Moved over to BOINC 6.10.56.
Changed: Tasks: Trickle timer now 10 minutes was 2 minutes. (updates tasks when invisible).
Changed: Computers: The status column now shows the TThrottle connection status as well, but only if the status is different.
Changed: Menu: Extra->update all projects: Only updates projects that have work to report.
Fixed: Computers: The TThrottle version number sometimes disappears.
Fixed: Proxy: The text for the user name was not correct one.
0.57 May 2010
New: Dialog for proxy servers.
New: Projects: A column with the Time left / project. Taking into account the number of cores / gpus the system has
New: Tasks: Color for deadline running.
Changed: The history will not read result, but uses the ones already read by the Tasks tab, if these are still valid (< 10 seconds old). This will result in a quicker response when the Task tab is opened.
Fixed: History: Doesn't follow the "alternating stripes" setting.
Fixed: History: A missed task showed no elapsed time, store the last known elapsed time when a task is running.
0.56 May 2010
New: Menu: Show last benchmarks time in extra->Run benchmarks.
New: History: Show use in new column.
New: History: A message box with a warning text, when the history on any computer exceeds 3000 items.
New: Computer: Sorting.
New: Computer: Alternating striping.
Changed: Connection lost. Now invalidates the rpc and state.
Changed: Computer: Only show the TThrottle version number, when there is a valid connection.
Changed: History: Also captures running tasks, but not shown. Used for use column. It should also result in less misses, when upload is too fast and missed, the task is still captured.
Changed: Alternating striping moved from task tab to view tab.
Fixed: BOINC settings: Processor: Value "Only after computer...." should be disabled (grayed) when "use GPU while Computer is in use" is checked.
Fixed: Message: Shows garbage when a connection is lost.
Fixed: Tasks: On some computer the double click (remove filter) results in a crash.
Fixed: Did not report "aborted by project" in tasks and history. (State aborted).
0.55 May 2010
New: Tasks/History: Error status: Aborted by project.
New: Tasks: A double click on any filtered task group, will remove the filter and show the unfiltered tasks, for that computer only. Double clicking again, will restore the filter.
New: Menu extra: Run Benchmark.
New: Menu extra: Read config file.
Changed: The first 4 minutes after startup, try to reconnect any localhost, regardless of any other setting. Otherwise the local machine may not always connect.
Changed: The installer includes a _large.exe this exe is basically the same, but supports up to 300 computers.
Fixed: When the connection is lost, clear the messages for that computer.
0.54 May 2010
New: Computer: Status message: Connection lost.
New: Computer sidebar: An icon for connection lost.
New: Expert tab: An automatic reconnect time (default 0 = not reconnect).
Changed: Compiler from VS 05 -> VS 10.
Changed: Close BoincTasks even as a thread is not responding, force the program to close after a 1 minute delay.
Changed: Connects quicker to host.
Changed: When a connection is lost it stays disconnected. Sidebar: A click on all computers, or on a specific computer, will start the reconnect sequence.
Changed: Tasks: For tasks in the state: Waiting to run: Filter will exclude tasks that are : Waiting for (shared) memory.
Changed: Tasks: Show suspend message: Waiting for memory.
Fixed: Connection: Some errors where incorrect: read error (no connection) was reported as Password error. Password error was reported as Read State error.
0.53 May 2010
New: Logging: The enable debug mode now reads the file log.xml, in folder PROGRAM directory /log, for options what to show in the log.
New: Logging: Logging is done to file as well, or only to file, as set in log.xml. Logging files are put in the USER folder /log.
New: Logging: Task view logging option.
Changed: All views: For selected: user definable font color and background color.
Fixed: Taskbar context menu seems to stick when not used.
Fixed: Enabling the history sometimes locked up a thread and with it the entire program. Changed the thread locking.
Fixed: Logging: When the logging window filled up, the program could crash.
0.52 April 2010
New: French translation by http://www.grid-france.fr/.
New: Snooze GPU in the taskbar.
New: Transfers: project backoff.
New: 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.
0.51 April 2010
New: Computer view: TThrottle version column.
New: Computer view: Connection status column.
New: BOINC preference dialog -> processor: While processor usage is less than 0 Percent (0 means no restriction).
New: 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: Computer, Detect, Add, Remove, where not translatable.
0.50 April 2010
Changed: Removed the sorting indicator | (no sorting).
Changed: Selection bar (Computer/Projects), the selections are now scaled depending on the total width of the bar.
Fixed: Computer sidebar: The text all computers is missing.
Fixed: Menu: BOINC website text is not translatable.
Fixed: The program did crash occasionally at startup (Graphic color dialog).
0.49 April 2010
New: All views: An option to show an horizontal and/or vertical grid.
New: A link to the BOINC homepage.
New: Graphic: The line thickness is user definable.
New: Computer view: Show the BOINC version.
Changed: Computer view: Moved to the main view. (Computers/Projects/Tasks/Transfers/Messages/History)
Fixed: Message view: Sometimes the wrong computer was shown, when a computer was selected with the sidebar. Like ROBOT and ROBOTiii, selected ROBOTiii, shown ROBOT.
0.48 April 2010
Changed: Tasks tab: When status is downloading and % = 100, then status is download error with the error color.
Fixed: All tabs: When for some reason the tab sorting column was out of range (registry), the program crashed. Added additional range checking.
0.47 March 2010
Changed: Use another way to get the user folder, like: "c:\users\xx\appdata\roaming".
Changed: The non combined mode is now no longer selectable. Read FAQ for more info.
Fixed: The follow selected tasks will now follow the task and the computer name, instead of only the task name. This prevents selected filtered tasks from switching computer
Fixed: Task view: Sometimes when there are filtered tasks of the same application and the same tasks number. Selection will switch from one to another. Like from 23 suspended to 23 waiting to run.
Now uses one Task inside the filter to check if it's still the right filtered group.
Fixed: Some projects with low CPU use the CPU% was not correct. (FreeHAL, v0.46 PrimeGrid's AP26 Search (cuda23) v1.01)
0.46 March 2010
New: Bulgarian: Nick, Team Cor Serpentis.
New: Abort dialog: Deadline column.
Changed: The exe name is now lower case only.
Changed: CPU%: if CPU % < 1% add 1 digit, like 0.001 and round of properly. 0.000 should be shown as empty.
Changed: Project/Tasks view Boinc settings: Select the first computer if no computer is selected.
0.45 March 2010
New: Task tab: An option to enable/disable the alternating stripes.
Changed: Computer: The computer name can have uppercase characters.
Changed: Computer sidebar: Now scalable.
Changed: The maximum number of computers is now 60.
Fixed: History tab: "copy selected" doesn't copy what you have really selected.
Fixed: Project or Task Tab: BOINC Prefs doesn't always go to the right machine.
Fixed: Computer: The password with encryption off was always stored as lowercase.
0.44 March 2010
New: Tasks view: Option to show the user unfriendly name = mostly shorter, instead of the default user friendly name.
Changed: Project view: New projects that are not complete now show a blank project field, show the Url instead.
Fixed: Tasks: A task running High P. was still showing Running High P, when suspended (snooze).
Fixed: Tasks: 60100-state, now reported as Aborted.
Fixed: Tasks: Name Column: Sorting of filtered items [tasks] was not correct.
Fixed: Sorting: Sorting did not work on some computers.
0.43 March 2010
Changed: Show version number in title bar.
Fixed: Transfer view, sometimes the % exceeded 100%.
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