A button to Clear the messages would be nice.

Even if the manager had a button to clear messages, the core client would still be keeping them all in memory. The way the manager asks for them is "give me all messages with ID > X", that way if it stops asking for some seconds, it won't miss any. [...] Clearing those wouldn't be as simple as it sounds to program, and it could cause other problems.

As the Manager knows, that the most recent message's ID was e.g. 3765, it would be no problem at all to use this number for subsequent request like "give me all messages with ID > 3765", even after discarding them fully from memory ;-)

My point is that depending on how the client stores them, it may be hard to clear everything < 3765 and still keeping IDs correctly. Also, clearing all is far easier than clearing all except last 10.

BTW, BoincView (which is doing it the same way) maintains only last few (currently 1000 per host IIRC, sometimes a bit low number for me) messages in memory and lets the user specify, how many of them to display.

Yep, and that feature could nicely go on the official manager. However, if a program asks for messages > 0 after BoincView clears them from its local version, that program will still get them all, proving the core client is keeping them all.

The ability to prioritize tasks in the order in which they will run would be a REALLY nice feature. This way I may be able to re-arrange how tasks will be finished.

The ability to prioritize tasks in the order in which they will run would be a REALLY nice feature. This way I may be able to re-arrange how tasks will be finished.

Thereby going against the Work Scheduler. Just let BOINC decide which result comes next and stop micro-managing it. That way you'll notice you won't lose work (or credit) by going over deadlines.

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Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please add sorting to the advanced view. allow sorting by project, resource%.

I agree!

Sorting of the display columns is in the plans, possibly in V5.10.x. We had a glimpse of it when it was inadvertently included in one of the alpha test versions of 5.8. It had a lot of bugs that needed to be fixed. There are other priorities for additional locally controlled option like a time of day/week scheduler that may take precedence. Boinc is continually evolving. It's a matter of which new feature you do first.

I suggest that serious members here are wasting their time replying to Markj. He's done the same thing on the Predictor forum - quoted an old post as an excuse to display his spam sig. At least this time he's taken the trouble to type that he agrees.

http://predictor.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=851

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I suggest that serious members here are wasting their time replying to Markj. He's done the same thing on the Predictor forum - quoted an old post as an excuse to display his spam sig. At least this time he's taken the trouble to type that he agrees.

I already suspected he was doing something like that, if the same happened on another forum, it's proof. I have seen *automated* spambots saying "I agree", "Nice post, very useful!" and other generic stuff to put their spamlink there.

Even noticed a spam trick used in other forums where the bot posted one of those generic messages, followed by a smiley with a link, like [url=www.spam.com]:D[ /url] and the forum system replaces :D with an image. It doesn't show anything (like different color) to mark there is a link there, since it's an image instead of text, but search engines see it and put the spam link higher in results...

I took out Botj's post. Will ask David what to do with his account. Usually we ask the admins to delete the account immediately upon posting SPAM, even if it's only one post.

Possibly that the forum software that doesn't need the Boinc Manager to attach to the project can get a question added. To fool bots. As I doubt Spammers install Boinc.

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The big bot programs like XR*m*r are so expensive that as well as the 1000 forum registrations and multiple posts thereon, they could throw in Vista Ultimate, boinc and a month of unlimited BURP workunits worth $50.....

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The list of project URLs in 5.9.3 makes it so much easier.

Perhaps we could have a drop down list of email addresses used to register with BOINC projects so that you wouldn't have to type in the email address each time you attach to a new project if you use the same email address for all projects

Perhaps we could have a drop down list of email addresses used to register with BOINC projects so that you wouldn't have to type in the email address each time you attach to a new project if you use the same email address for all projects

That would mean BOINC has to scan your system for email addresses. Think about the security risk in that. Do know that that drop down list is just an external xml file. So maybe it can be done, but you'd have to make an xml file which includes your email addresses. Else... no.

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I was assuming the email address was stored in client_state.xml but it doesn't seem to be.

OK... so even if it was and I manage to plant BOINC on your system without you knowing it, whose email address would then be visible? Yours, or mine? ;-)

Anyway, no, your email address isn't shown anywhere. The account key of the person whose BOINC projects you are running is showing in the various account_*.xml files. But that's all.

Email addresses registered with are stored on the project's database servers to contact if they haven't been around for 6 months or more. Yet then that would be the other guy's email address. Not yours.

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I would like to see a search or find function added to the messages display as my computers are up 24/7 and the message list gets very long between reboots.

This would help greatly when trying to track down a particular problem and reporting it to the project involved. Just a simple find like used in windows, nothing elaberate. Find on project name would be good.

Thanks for listening. Love the sort on columns as I run about 39 projects.

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All logs are written out to stdoutdae.txt and stderrdae.txt in your BOINC folder. Since these are text files, you can open them with Notepad and use its search/find option.

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A couple of requests for the Statistics tab: the ability to change the scale and to choose a selection of projects to display in the "All projects (sum)" views.

When I look at all my projects together most of the curves start within the past couple of months -- which is fine -- but I have one project whose data go back to when I first attached the host last autumn. As a result the other curves are all squeezed over to the right-hand side of the display. If I could make the graph start around the first of March, say, or suppress the 'long-memory' project, it would make much better use of the available window real-estate.

Likewise, where the projects have a wide range of average or (especially) total credit, being able to change the vertical scale, or to deselect some of the projects, would greatly improve the resolution of a comparison between projects whose stats are in the same part of the range.

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A couple of requests for the Statistics tab: the ability to change the scale and to choose a selection of projects to display in the "All projects (sum)" views.

What BOINC version do you have? Both of your requests are already done, relatively long ago.

Drag a rectangle on the graph, and it will zoom in. Clicking with right mouse button will go back to full view. Clicking the project names on the side will toggle them to show or not. Dragging the graph with the right mouse button will scroll it - useful when zoomed in. Double-clicking graph (left mouse button) hides the side panel with the project names.

A couple of requests for the Statistics tab: the ability to change the scale and to choose a selection of projects to display in the "All projects (sum)" views.

What BOINC version do you have? Both of your requests are already done, relatively long ago.

Drag a rectangle on the graph, and it will zoom in. Clicking with right mouse button will go back to full view. Clicking the project names on the side will toggle them to show or not. Dragging the graph with the right mouse button will scroll it - useful when zoomed in. Double-clicking graph (left mouse button) hides the side panel with the project names.

I thought those were new things in 5.9.x.

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Kathryn :o)

A couple of requests for the Statistics tab: the ability to change the scale and to choose a selection of projects to display in the "All projects (sum)" views.

What BOINC version do you have? Both of your requests are already done, relatively long ago.

5.4.9. Sorry; I guess it's time I upgraded. I hadn't seen any mention of such features here …

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I thought those were new things in 5.9.x.

No, they are already there in 5.8.x

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I thought those were new things in 5.9.x.

No, they are already there in 5.8.x

::sigh::

Too many versions in too little time. I can't keep track of what's new when.

Sorry.

::goes back to hiding in the corner::

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Kathryn :o)