BTCMiner - An advanced upcoming GUI.

SomeoneWeird

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Quote from: Nythain on May 31, 2011, 04:04:04 PM

I don't mind a bit of the whitespace. And future fan controls and graphs will be fun. If i want minimal i'd just run poclbm.exe in cmd and minimize the window. If i want a GUI it's because i want something that looks like a program. Granted, i will agree there's probably a smidge too much white space at the moment.

Just had to throw out a little bit of positive feedback there and try to illustrate a valuable point. To each their own, and if its not to yours, don't use it.

Yeah, thankyou, the space at the side will eventually host the fan controls and and mining graphs etc. And I agree, if you don't like it, don't use it.

PM'ed everyone interested.

BombaUcigasa

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Yeah, I know it says something there, but ... if it's so important that i uses 33% of the window surface, why can't I read it?!

It's not a shame if you just rip off some other program's interface and reuse the proportions, or ask a friend that knows these things to assist. Engineers and designers make different tools. Looking forward to the advanced tool parts

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I don't mind a bit of the whitespace. And future fan controls and graphs will be fun. If i want minimal i'd just run poclbm.exe in cmd and minimize the window. If i want a GUI it's because i want something that looks like a program. Granted, i will agree there's probably a smidge too much white space at the moment.

Just had to throw out a little bit of positive feedback there and try to illustrate a valuable point. To each their own, and if its not to yours, don't use it.

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Quote from: BombaUcigasa on May 31, 2011, 03:23:03 PM

You missed some whitespace grue...

Wrong :p Look VEEEERY close and you'll see the word "fan controls" written on it

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Write these words on a piece of cardboard and hang them next to your programming computer:

Minimalism
Efficiency
Logic
Performance
Beauty

Cool

grue

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Quote from: BombaUcigasa on May 31, 2011, 03:23:03 PM

You missed some whitespace grue...

Got me there. But that's likely a side effect of resizing the window. Tongue

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You missed some whitespace grue...

grue

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you got too much whitespace

SomeoneWeird

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Beta testing now open, see here http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10787.0

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Quote from: slothbag on May 29, 2011, 06:48:37 AM

This looks good SomeoneWierd.. I have been looking for a simple gui miner like this, i'm not a fan of the python "guiminer".

Check out the Mono project, as long as you keep your codebase relatively platform independent your app should run on Windows, Mac and Linux no problems using Mono.

If you can eventually support Ufasoft CPU miner and the CUDA miner that would be perfect.

Yeah, it should be pretty much compatible with wine & mono, if not it will after a few small changes.

And i've made it (kind of) modular, so adding support for miners will be easy

Would you be able to donate? It will make me code faster Wink

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This looks good SomeoneWierd.. I have been looking for a simple gui miner like this, i'm not a fan of the python "guiminer".

Check out the Mono project, as long as you keep your codebase relatively platform independent your app should run on Windows, Mac and Linux no problems using Mono.

If you can eventually support Ufasoft CPU miner and the CUDA miner that would be perfect.

SomeoneWeird

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Anyone have any other suggestions, tips?

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Quote from: EpicBacon on May 27, 2011, 10:02:21 PM

Quote from: SomeoneWeird on May 27, 2011, 09:59:58 PM

Thanks, got any requests?

Not yet, maybe I will after I test the beta Tongue

edit - The ability to change the white background colour.
Oh, and the ability to read JSON API's so i don't have to use the windows sidebar gadget (i'm not sure how realistic this request is for a miner, but it would be an awesome feature)

I'm hoping this is going to end up as an AIO for newbies, and people who want charts/graphics/or are afraid of > prompts.

After everything's checked off the list, im going to add graphing functions, and support for the JSON extensions so you can get your current balance and total mh/s etc.

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Quote from: SomeoneWeird on May 27, 2011, 09:59:58 PM

Thanks, got any requests?

Not yet, maybe I will after I test the beta Tongue

edit - The ability to change the white background colour.
Oh, and the ability to read JSON API's so i don't have to use the windows sidebar gadget (i'm not sure how realistic this request is for a miner, but it would be an awesome feature)

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Quote from: EpicBacon on May 27, 2011, 09:54:21 PM

Cool. Enjoy the donation.

Thanks, got any requests?

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Cool. Enjoy the donation.

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Quote from: Zagitta on May 27, 2011, 09:34:23 PM

Garbage...

1) The gui looks aweful (IMO)...
2) Using the AREO glass extensively will make the program win 7 / vista only
3) AREO uses GPU power = bad thing when you want to get the highest possibly hashrate
4) where's the Edit/delete miner button?
5) Pools, how about adding support for people adding custom pools? say their own or a new one you might not have updated it to include the URL of?
6) Is this using WPF? because you kinda want to avoid that aswell because it uses gpu resources too.
7) have you actually looked into reading fanspeed, etc from c#? because without having looked into it i doubt it's easy as c# generally doesn't have much hardware level acess API's

That's about it for my thoghts, don't take it personally but rather as constructive critique

1. Thanks

2 & 3. Yes, I know it uses gpu resources, but it uses very minimal, and it detects if it's running on xp and changed the gui accordingly.
4. When you create a miner another tab gets added and the features are on the new tab.
5. Added to the list

6. No, it's windows forms.
7. It's actually quite easy using interops (from C/C++)

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Garbage...

1) The gui looks aweful (IMO)...
2) Using the AREO glass extensively will make the program win 7 / vista only
3) AREO uses GPU power = bad thing when you want to get the highest possibly hashrate
4) where's the Edit/delete miner button?
5) Pools, how about adding support for people adding custom pools? say their own or a new one you might not have updated it to include the URL of?
6) Is this using WPF? because you kinda want to avoid that aswell because it uses gpu resources too.
7) have you actually looked into reading fanspeed, etc from c#? because without having looked into it i doubt it's easy as c# generally doesn't have much hardware level acess API's

That's about it for my thoghts, don't take it personally but rather as constructive critique

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No replies? Currently have 0.2 in donations. Sad

SomeoneWeird

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Thanks for the donations guys

Currently got about 0.1btc worth, keep it up and this should be out within a couple of days Cheesy

Just finished the accounts loading/saving and the arguments and stuff, now all I need is to get monitoring working, shouldn't be too hard

SW-

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