A couple more suggestions:
In the transactions details window, could the text be selectable?
Any thoughts on adding a link to blockchain.info and/or blockexplorer.com for the transaction as well?
not easily. The text is not selectable because you are using Windows; I do not know how to fix that. What I can do is add a button to paste the transaction ID into the clipboard, so that you can paste it in your browser. |
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I love this fast-and-furious development.  BTW, on Windows I've taken to using: python setup build python setup install The install breaks at "running install_data" but since it successfully does "running install_lib" it works to use python electrum afterwards. If I don't build/install, the libraries for the new version(s) aren't updated. oh, I see. I can skip that step for Windows. edit: I modified the install script so that it does not install data files on windows. can you check that it works? (use version 0.57b) |
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But the other color backgrounds still exist?
yes: Receive tab: *green = prioritized *blue = frozen Contacts tab: *gray = alias |
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* The 'receive' tab now has a 'new' button, that allows the user to create addresses beyond the wallet's gap limit. The user gets a warning, and addresses that are beyond the gap limit are displayed in red. The red color will remain until the gap has been filled. (in other words, to fill the gap you need to send coins to the last non-red address of your list).
hey, this info is now deprecated; sorry I should have mentioned that. in 0.56 this button opens a dialog that allows the user to raise their gap limit. no more addresses displayed in red. users can also decrease their gap limit, but only as much as is allowed by the current status of their wallet. (if the wallet has large gaps, the user must fill them before they can decrease the limit.) |
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one month has elapsed! two more months to go..
several developers have expressed interest in this project.
it is still time to add a donation and increase the bounty!
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version 0.57 is available.
Changes:
* fixed language code for vietnamese and slovenian translations
* gui option to send change back to the input address of a transaction (expert mode)
* new menu items: delete a contact from your list, view details of an alias, of a tx
* various keyboard shortcuts to allow navigation without the mouse.
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Is there an option to delete a contact?
I just wrote it today  it will be in the next version |
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Here is version 0.56 new features (Qt gui only): * Labels found in URIs are added to your address book Example: bitcoin:1NTiGdrGgQrA46x9dv7XKhznKgcHrhVxo?label=ThomasV (there is a confirmation dialog) * Auto-completions: the 'Pay to' text entry has auto-completions, just like a web browser's URL box. It uses the set of labels in your addressbook (no, it does not use firstbits) |
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May be the option to set the change addr will be added to the gui in near future indeed, I think that a checkbox to return the change to the sending address is simple enough to be added to the gui (in expert mode). |
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I think this material can be used both for the Wiki (I do not know how to best put it into the Electrum Wiki - it is quite a lot of text and I did not want to "spam" the wiki page with it), and also for some "help" text in the client itself (for help buttons or context-sensitive right-click).
thanks for that! I guess the best way to proceed is to create a new wiki page, distinct from the existing one. edit: text moved here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Electrum/Documentation |
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I have tried "embedded key" solutions for mobile: they just do not work for me because there is the time when I want to make a quick send and the device wants to update its block chain.
I need to wait a few seconds or minutes and that turns the user experience to really bad compared to just any other payment solutions.
IMHO, thin clients (with backend hosted keys) are the way to go mobile.
The keys do not have to be on the server for the device to be snappy. Try BitcoinSpinner for android or the Ellet once it is publicly available. Boussac, you can also use Electrum servers. These servers are open source, they use a open protocol called stratum, based on json. You do not have to use the Electrum client with these servers, you can use them with your own client. And you can run your own Electrum server. |
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Hi, do you get an error message with the portable version?
Indeed, same problem here. I guess this is a new bug.
File "electrum", line 398, in <module>
addr += ':' + str(wallet.get_private_key_base58(addr, password))
File "C:\Documents and Settings\ffly\Application Data\Electrum-P\0.55\C_\ElectrumPY\lib\wallet.py", line 388, in get_private_key_base58
pk = self.get_private_key(address, password)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\ffly\Application Data\Electrum-P\0.55\C_\ElectrumPY\lib\wallet.py", line 409, in get_private_key
raise BaseException("unknown address")
BaseException: unknown address
- Thats the bug I get. - No error message. It locked up (in German: it hangs) I just noticed this bug. it is not related to imported keys. just fixed it, see version 0.55a |
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Is it somehow possible to use the paying (sending) address itself as change address?
not with the gui, but you can specify the change address with the command line. What if i freeze the change address, where does the change go then?
freeze has no effect on receiving |
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Heyaa.... is it technically possible to generate a transaction from a private key and somehow get it out into the block chain without actually having the blockchain? Like to make a really lightweight "spend only" client with your private key(s) in it?
Help me, big brains!
Electrum does exactly that |
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Great! Congratulations!
Is it possible to use the freeze/prioritize commands with a change address?
yes it is. change addresses have a C flag |
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Apparently MNW's Ellet device runs a version of Electrum. Will it be easy to upgrade the code as you update it frequently?
I do not know if they use the same codebase for their client. but the client-server protocol is stable, so they do not need to upgrade their code frequently. |
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Version 0.55 is out.
As announced yesterday, advanced features are now available only through an 'expert mode'
The expert mode is activated by a checkbox in the user preferences.
Features available in the expert mode:
* freeze/prioritize addresses
* the 'receive' tab shows change addresses ('change' tab is gone)
* the 'receive' and 'contacts' tab have extra columns ('flags', 'balance', 'Tx'). A new 'flags' column describes the status of an address: Imported, Change or default, Frozen or Prioritized
* the 'receive' tab has a 'new' button that allows to create new addresses by raising the wallet's gap limit. Note that the gap limit can be lowered too. The dialog also displays the minimum value of the gap limit that can be set without losing any of your current addresses (this assumes you are connected, because it needs to compute the maximal gap of your sequence of addresses)
Gui changes:
* The buttons for address-related actions have been replaced with contextual menus
Console mode changes:
* new commands to freeze/unfreeze, prioritize/unprioritize an address.
* address flags are also displayed with 'electrum addresses' in the console
Enjoy!
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option 2) offer to help them out. When you do figure out how something works and documentation is deficient, write it up and email it to him. at least then all he has to do it cut and paster.
My opinion is that documentation is often better when non-devs contribute to it. Not because developers are always bad at writing docs, but because someone with an external look, who does not share the developer's implicit goals, can provide better explanations. Note that the Electrum documentation and the translation project are on the wiki; this so that anyone can participate. |
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I mostly agree. Please note that the gtk version of Electrum has help buttons; my plan is to add them to the qt gui too. also, these "advanced" features will not be enabled by default |
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Fixed. I like these new features.. one more to think about, could a receiving address be specified as a change address? I'd like to always spend money from a vanity address without having to constantly refund it after every spend. It seems like a neat way to let people know I'm the one tipping them (if they recognize they vanity).
(BTW, some bitcoins on their way to your server address)
thanks. you can already do this with the command line with -c, but I agree that it wuold be nice to add to the gui |
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