Topic: [REQUESTS] Minimal Electrum builds for Windows - page 4. (Read 47207 times)

By the way - my web page has a new address: http://dre.natverk.org/elecwin.htm
Hopefully this one will last longer... At least till I get me a little VPS or something.

Thanks for your feedback The indentation (or lack thereof) is part of the built-in style, so I'm not sure I can change that, but I will double-check.

I like it overall, I would bring the indentation for the icons on the bottom bar back personally. But I guess that's a matter of taste

My web page is still down   I'm kinda fed up with that host.
 
By the way, I've updated Qt to 4.9.6 on my development system and played around with the different styling options... As a result, I will probably use a slightly more polished (and modern) GUI style for my next build:




Unless people prefer the current style:

Great, thanks!
Also I've finally found a fix for a long-standing little bug in the Qt GUI - I'll send a pull request in a little bit.

Fixed on master, will be in the next release.

A basic changelog was started recently and is being maintained there:
 https://raw.github.com/spesmilo/electrum/master/RELEASE-NOTES

I do agree with your point. The main issue is that the Electrum team is still quite small, 100% voluntary, and has no marketing / communication guru yet... Hopefully that will come soon.

Wow that's really neat! And it allows me to execute the console commands which is something I really needed 2 days ago while trying to retrieve a single private key.


BTW this reminds me. I abandoned Electrum for my cold storage option. I don't know if you're familiar but I had an USB stick with ubuntu on it and two user accounts, one admin that was never connected with an offline wallet and another regular user that was online with a seedless wallet. But I was using electrum 1.0 which stopped working and when I updated to 1.57 it would give me some sort of error.

Anyway my point is that Electrum is a great client, but all of you who are developing it lack skills for selling it effectively. You can make it, no doubt, but your websites, documentation, ect is seriously lacking.  One virtually needs to be on your level of expertise to be able to troubleshoot any sort of an issue. For example I couldn't find a changelog for various versions, I couldn't figure out which version I must install on my ubuntu stick (linux or ubuntu/debian nightly) or how to update my version and there was some other stuff that I can't remember right now but was making me go mental over when I was trying to get it to work.

Anyway, that's ok, you don't need to know how to sell it effectively, any great business always distributed the making, selling and keeping the finances in order between different experts and all I'm trying to say here is that when you all get a chance please hire someone that will help you out and create user guides, FAQs and user friendly documentation so regular users like myself can easily learn how to use it (like this run while holding shift trick..).

Just a suggestion.

Glad to know you could fix it. Just a tip if you do encounter this kind of issue again in the future: you can get more information about what is going on by starting the application while holding down the SHIFT key (which opens the virtual console), and execute "electrum -v" from there and watch for any error messages.

Thanks for the new donation, always VERY appreciated

Regarding the bug in Lite mode: I've reported the issue to the dev team, hoping for a fix in the next release.

Where is a list of version changes?

This doesn't work for me under win7 64bit. The process runs, takes up about 3mb of memory and nothing happens. The first time I ran it it hung at the unpacking stage.

EDIT: nvm, got it to work, I had to manually find and delete all files and folders associated with electrum and I think the problem was I already had appdata\local\electrum\ with a wallet and blockchain headers from slushe's build..

Thanks!

In Lite mode: if you start typing previously saved Label in "Enter a recipient address..." field, whole string (label and address) is copied... string stays in RED color (indicating an error address) and I'm unable to send BTCs.

It works fine in classic mode, though.

Donation sent.

Sorry for that, it looks like an issue at my (cheap) hosting provider.
Not sure how long that will take to resolve, but in the meantime,
the direct download link is still available (hosted at Google Code, thankfully):

http://win-electrum.googlecode.com/files/elec-1.5.7-flatfly.exe    (6.3MB build, no dependencies)
 
SHA-1 hash: ea9d9a2717a9294d0c0374d2eda93170a35b539e

VirusTotal report

The server is down  : /

I've just released a stable build for version 1.5.7.
As usual, the download links can be found in the first post of this thread.

1. Sure, any imported private keys get encrypted as well.  However please note that electrum doesn't support importing compressed keys at this time. There is a pull request for this but it still needs to be adapted to the current codebase and merged in.
Anyway, the best practice is to avoid importing keys as much as possible, and send funds from bitcoin-qt to electrum addresses instead (if at all possible in your case) - this is to get the full benefits of deterministic wallets.

2.  That's the encrypted version of the seed (ending with equal signs). It can't be used without your password. The actual seed is a 128-bit high-entropy random number, which is usually displayed as either a 12-word mnemonic code or a 32-digit hex number.



No problem, always glad to help. I won't be online very much next week, though, but you can also get assistance in the main electrum thread or on the #electrum IRC channel.

Thanks a lot for your time in explaining this. I think I only have 2 more questions (until I tackle figuring out offline wallets and trasnactions, that is). 

I found in the documentation how to import private keys:

Since those keys are not "deterministic," then they will need to be stored in electrum.dat, I guess. Will they be encrypted in there?

Also, I think I found the wallet seed in electrum.dat. It's 88 characters, with numbers, upper- and lower-case letters and some special characters. Is that the actual seed, or is that an encrypted version of the seed that I would have to enter a password to unlock?

Thanks again for the help.

Electrum.dat is the only file where all sensitive information is stored.
The private keys to those 5 (and any subsequent) addresses are not stored anywhere, they are dynamically computed from the seed, which is stored in the electrum.dat file. This is one of the great benefits of deterministic wallets: you only need to back up your wallet just once, and that's it!

Just be sure to use a strong password and the seed will always be stored in encrypted form, using AES256.

If, for any reason, you do need to access the private keys for each individual address, you can do so by issuing the following command: