Hi. I recently switched from the SETI@Home Classic to the BOINC version. Within the "SETI@home preferences" area on the BOINC Web site, it indicates settings for graphics and colors. This leads me to believe that I should be able to see a graphical display of BOINC, just like I have previously with SETI@Home Classic -- but I do not.

I am using the BOINC Menubar (v0.1b / 4.25) with Mac OS X 10.3.8. My BOINC Web site preferences settings were made before BOINC Menubar was installed and I have also clicked the "update" button in the Menubar "manage projects area" just in case. Still, no graphics are displayed and I'd like to see them.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?

Thank you.

From what I've picked up in the forum, there are no graphics for the Mac version. Which, IMO, really sucks. I liked leaving SETI running and watching it. I hope either someone will tell me I'm wrong (and how to get the pretty pictures ^_~), or it will be put in a new release.

Personally, I hope I'm wrong.

Ari
http://www.walkamerica.org/~arirashkae

Thanks for replying. I hope that's not correct, but maybe it is. As mentioned, what especially doesn't make sense to me is that the SETI@Home preferences for BOINC include selections for graphics and colors. I can't understand why these settings would exist, if there are not corresponding graphics (like SETI@Home Classic).

I think that the development team is working on putting graphics in, but first they want to be sure it runs right LOL. It does make more sense that Windows machines would have more preference, since there's more of them, but I do hope the Mac side catches up quickly. I use the menubar for SETI, Predictor, and Einstein, but it doesn't work with ClimatePrediction, so I have to use the command line for that one. Oy.

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> From what I've picked up in the forum, there are no graphics for the Mac
> version. Which, IMO, really sucks. I liked leaving SETI running and watching
> it. I hope either someone will tell me I'm wrong (and how to get the pretty
> pictures ^_~), or it will be put in a new release.
>
> Personally, I hope I'm wrong.
>
> Ari
> http://www.walkamerica.org/~arirashkae

I appreciate your differing view, but rather than a CPU intensive graphic display (which subtracts from the very task I want to happen), I would rather have a text/menu/dock item which shows me the present status (periodic update). This is easily gleaned from the data files, but I lack the knowledge or motivation to produce the item which will put it where I want it. For now I have a CLI alias which gives me the data I want.

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seems to me that with the advent of tiger a widget would best serve these purposes. something as simple as a text display of the fraction of the work unit completed (grep'ed out of state.xml) and the number of work units completed and various other stats. doesn't need to necessarily be graphical, but a widget is the obvious way to go with boinc just running on the command line.

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I would rather have a text/menu/dock item which shows me the present status (periodic update). This is easily gleaned from the data files, but I lack the knowledge or motivation to produce the item which will put it where I want it. For now I have a CLI alias which gives me the data I want.</blockquote>

Have you tried SETI Control? http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/SETIControl.html

That gives you a progress percentage in its Dock logo and more detailed statistics in the program's window.

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