yes

Well, I'm glad you were having fun

You mentioned you don't use the miner because you use CUDA - would you be interested in testing CUDA support if I were to integrate an existing CUDA miner into the GUI? From the poll in the thread there seems to be reasonable demand for it, but I don't have any CUDA capable hardware around.

Looking at this site indicates to me that there's no way to avoid this behavior using ICO files.

EDIT: Got this taken care of, I just pull the 16x16 icon out of the icon bundle and explicitly give that one to the taskbar. I also had to hand-edit the 16x16 icon since it was giving translucent pixels and apparently those actually mean "be really dark". After taking those out, it looks fine now

Thanks, I've found this program which looks promising: IcoFX. If it works out I'll ask if they accept Bitcoin donations ^_^

The site is great, I made a couple pledges. If you wanted to open source the code I could probably help you work on it

Thanks, and good point about the icon. I wanted to have a larger one for the Windows 7 taskbar but it does look terrible when shrunk. Probably I'll need to render them individually in Photoshop for each size.

Thanks, fixed.

A new version of the miner is available; I've updated the download link on the first post, or you can get it here:

    poclbm-gui-20110327.exe (self-extracting archive)

A reminder to everyone: if you haven't donated yet and find this program useful, send me even a single bitcoin and I'll be happy. Last week's release got over 1000 downloads and only 3 people donated for a total of 2.5 BTC, which is a little discouraging to me.

Changes:

- For solo mining, report any blocks found in the miner's status bar. Fix bug where difficulty 1 hashes would be called shares when solo mining. Thanks to SunAvatar for reporting this.
- Modified miners are marked with an asterisk. On program exit if you have unsaved changes you are prompted to save them.
- Fix bug where autostarted miners would still say "Start mining!" on their miner tab.
- Updated to latest poclbm code.
- Improved taskbar icon.
- Show pool balance to three decimal places (requested by OneFixt).

I'm in NB, and I've got someone lined up. Thanks for replying, I'll keep you in mind if the other guy falls through

My intent was to call them "Difficulty 1 hashes" on the status bar instead of shares when solo mining, but it looks like that doesn't quite work in the current version. I'll patch that up this weekend, and also make sure it would say something like "Blocks: n" as well if you did find a block.

For the time being you could just check your bitcoin client and see that there were 50 coins in there with a description of "Generated".

Or maybe whenever a block is found it should play loud music and show some fireworks? Or a fountain of coins tumbling down over the screen? I think that would be a good feature

Hi, it looks like you have poclbm-mod-gui. That's an older version of my poclbm-gui that the Bitcoinpool guys have hacked around with to reduce load on their server. This is fine by me since it's an open source license, but unfortunately I can't offer support on their modifications.

I do know that the latest version of my regular poclbm-gui (available from the first post in this thread) works just fine for me with Bitcoinpool, so if you'd like to try that and report your experience I can help you from there

Hehe, you're welcome Glad to see it's working well for you!

I'm looking for someone who can buy a $25 prepaid Virgin Mobile Canada card (these are not the same as Virgin Mobile US minutes) and send me the PIN in exchange for equivalent value of Bitcoins. You can get these cards in most drug shores, Walmart, etc.

PM me if interested and we can discuss escrow etc. This could be a recurring thing in the future if things go well

The_Nut had the exact same problem earlier in this thread, apparently he sorted it out with a driver update. You could PM him and find out what version he's using, then ideally you could post back here with your results and I'll make it a FAQ entry.

I've been meaning to do an XKCD order for a while, so this would be great. I would get a polo and two t-shirts for $42 + $19 + $19 = $80. I have the equivalent value of Bitcoins available.

Glad to hear you got it working! Feel free to post on the main guiminer thread if you have any more issues. And remember to donate if it works well for you

There is a password for my GitHub account, but as far as I know the downloads are always public and I didn't see any option to make them private.

Well, I deleted the file from GitHub and uploaded it again under the same filename, and it seems to be working now. I didn't do anything differently so I'm quite puzzled as to what happened. Anyone have any ideas?

    poclbm-gui-20110321.exe (self-extracting archive)

Thanks dishwara, I made an updated EXE. It's the same code as yesterday but extracts to a folder properly.

    poclbm-gui-20110321.exe (self-extracting archive)

A new version of the miner is available; I've updated the download link on the first post, or you can get it here:

    poclbm-gui-20110320.exe (self-extracting archive)


Changes since the last version:

- Use self-extracting archive so 7-zip is not required.

- Add number of shares mined per hour to summary panel. Shares are displayed as "100 (50)" meaning 100 shares total, 50 in the last hour.

- Add option to temporarily pause all running miners from the tray icon's context menu. All paused miners can later be resumed by unchecking the same menu item.

- Support for securely checking pool balance using a private token. The first time you try to check your balance, you'll be redirected to the pool website where you can get a special token. With this token you can check your balance from within the GUI. This method avoids storing the actual account username/password on your local computer. Currently slush's pool and BTCMine support this method, others probably will soon.

- Updated to latest poclbm code.

- Fix bug in the summary panel where the hash rate would remain even after all miners were stopped.

- Fix bug where old config files containing unrecognized mining servers would cause an exception on startup. Thanks to dishwara for reporting this.

- Fix bug where the hostname and port could not be entered for "Other" miners. Thanks to JWU42 for reporting this.