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Digital Parasite
02-24-2003, 10:39 AM
A new version of ecc2GUI has been released (v0.8). This version adds some new features and also support for the new SWfreak client wrapper.

You can get it in the regular location:
http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/ecc2GUI/

v0.8 (Feb 23, 2003)
- Changed progress bar to now display % of estimated DPs required for the ECC2 project based on 20.5 million DPs to find the key.

- Added progress bar to show the poisson probability of finding the solution to ECC2-109.

- The Stop button is now properly greyed out/disabled when the ECC2 client is stopped.

- If "AutoStop on Close" is checked, the GUI will no longer try to stop the client if it is not running. This used to cause a 30 second delay before the GUI would close.

- The Max/Min fields can now hold an extra digit in the display

- The Max & Min Iterations Since Last DP can now be stored in the .ini file by checking the "Save Max/Min Iterations" checkbox in the config window. If this box is checked, the next time you load the GUI it will remember what your Max and Min iterations for DPs have been.

- Added ability to check process list for ECC2 client to determine if a copy is already running, no more need for the .spd file to check this. Special thanks to SWfreak for providing the code to do this.

- Added support for SWfreak's client ( http://swfreak.dcworld.nl/ ). The GUI will only be able to stop the client with the STOP button if you use the GUI to start the client and keep the GUI loaded. Otherwise you will have to hit CTRL-C in the client's command prompt window. Look in Config window for available client options.

If you have any problems please let me know.

Jeff.

Screen Shots:
http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/ecc2GUI/ecc2GUIv08.gif

http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/ecc2GUI/ecc2GUIv08config.gif

alpha
02-26-2003, 05:17 AM
I don't know if this is a bug in the GUI or just a neat new feature to go with the new wrapper. See screenshot (http://www.btinternet.com/~matt_mills/ecc2_gui.JPG). The 'Iterations Since Last DP' is measured in 'k', as opposed to 'm'. Just to make it clear, it was a one-off that I caught a glimpse of.

Edit: from the screenshot I just noticed the 'Iterations For Last DP' is also incorrectly being measured in 'k' (at that particular moment).

Digital Parasite
02-26-2003, 06:47 AM
Interesting, I will have to check it out. The new client might start reporting in k then switch to m? I'm not sure, but that would screw up the counting since the GUI wouldn't know that 3000k is smaller than 1000m (it just chops off the last character for the comparison).

Thanks for finding that.

Jeff.

alpha
05-18-2003, 09:30 AM
See screenshot (http://www.btinternet.com/~matt_mills/ecc2-GUI3.jpg). Look at the benchmark running time, iterations for last DP, and new DPs. While I was typing this, I started to wonder if everything was actually working correctly in the shot, but I don't think it was - can anyone else see the problem? I think I know what went wrong, if so.