I miss the functionality of clickable column headers in the BOINC manager like in nearly every Windows software.

Mainly in the "Message" Tab I would like to click the "Message" column and would like to see the messages alphabetically ordered. So I could see at first view how many results are sent today or so. Or all messges of one project.

Could everybody implement that? Thanks a lot!

Bye, Bye
Mar.io

Messages ordering by project is already possible, with the "Show only this project" which becomes active once you've clicked on any project message in the messages window/tab. This has been available since BOINC 6.6

Ordering on alphabetical order isn't going to happen, it's quite useless.

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Why useless? I could immediately see how many tasks in one session are reported for instance. It would be very intersting for me.

bye, bye Mar.io

It sounds like you're attached to one project only.

Useless in the sense that since BOINC 6.10, BOINC Manager records all messages since BOINC startup. When you are attached to multiple projects and have been running BOINC for two weeks without restart, do you really want an alphabetizer to see info that you can just as well get from the statistics tab, the statistics sites or by going to your account in the various projects and see what you did with the tasks?

Remember, BOINC isn't a one project program. I'm attached to no less than 27 active projects, do I really need to see their messages alphabetized? ;-)
It would also take up quite a bit of CPU cycles to do alphabetizing, cycles I may well want the projects to use.

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If you use BOINCTasks, you'd be able to build a result history without the need of messing with the message log. The tool is written for Windows, but can be run inside e.g. Wine on Linux.

Quite a bit smarter specific to results returned history is the WCGDAWS tool, but that was written to specifically pull all a members WCG results off the website. Includes filters galore, e.g. one can see day, week, month averages, for a device, or multiple devices.

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I could immediately see how many tasks in one session are reported for instance. It would be very intersting for me.

You could achieve something similar with a command chain like

find "search string" stdoutdae.txt|sort (for windows) or
grep "search string" stdoutdae|sort (for *nix)

The stdoutdae(.txt) file contains the cumulated messages from the Messages tab and can be found in the BOINC data directory.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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