MacWallet - another bitcoin wallet app

[Mike Hearn]

Did you change the defaults? Pretty sure the keychain is unlocked when the screen is unlocked by default.

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[TheButterZone]

Did you change the defaults? Pretty sure the keychain is unlocked when the screen is unlocked by default.

Maybe. Can't remember.

Check "Lock after n minutes of inactivity" under Keychain Access>Change Settings for Keychain "Login"

[jonas.schnelli]

I just release V0.12

Changes:
+ wallet encryption is now possible
+ QRCode for incoming addresses
+ German and Portuguese translations
+ improved UI
+ show Bitcoin icon in status bar
+ incoming payment notifications
+ fixed BTC formating error
+ 10.9 Maverick compatible
- removed keychain store option (currently to dangerous)

Screenshots:
https://github.com/MacWallet/MacWallet/blob/master/SCREENSHOTS.md

Binary Release:
https://github.com/MacWallet/MacWallet/releases/download/V.0.12/MacWallet_v0.12.23_oct_2013.zip

[tk1337]

It looks pretty slick, however I wish the import wallet feature was working.

Good job though thus far.

[jonas.schnelli]

It looks pretty slick, however I wish the import wallet feature was working.

Yes. Needs to get implemented soon.
Why not creating a issue and write a bit of a specification?

https://github.com/MacWallet/MacWallet/issues

thanks
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[jonas.schnelli]

New release is here:
https://github.com/MacWallet/MacWallet/releases/tag/V0.12.1

* bitcoin amount can now also be entered with "," as dec. separator
* wallet balance is now more accurate after sending coins
* new icon thanks to Kevin Eichhorn
* added french translation
* switched update appcast url to macwallet.org domain

[hivewallet]

New icon is awesome!

[Mike Hearn]

Very nice!

[btcven]

Can you add the new languages requests in transifex?

[jonas.schnelli]

Can you add the new languages requests in transifex?

Done

[btcven]

Can you add the new languages requests in transifex?

Done

Spanish translation for MacWallet done

[Mike Hearn]

Hi Jonas,

A few comments:

Adresses -> addresses

The "Connected peers" menu item doesn't have the right padding.

The title of the transaction details window is just "Window".

These sorts of visual glitches can easily undermine confidence in a piece of software - I'd suggest going over the UI carefully to make sure there aren't any more.

Also, I noticed that after a while it had dropped P2P connections and I had to restart the app to make it notice a transfer. But there was no visual indication of that.

Finally, you could allow people to see where the wallet file is stored, right now it's too hard to make a backup. And experience from MultiBit suggests you should make multiple backups of peoples wallets for them, in case of some kind of corruption (bitcoinj won't do that for you).

[jonas.schnelli]

Hi Jonas,

A few comments:

Adresses -> addresses

The "Connected peers" menu item doesn't have the right padding.

The title of the transaction details window is just "Window".

These sorts of visual glitches can easily undermine confidence in a piece of software - I'd suggest going over the UI carefully to make sure there aren't any more.

Also, I noticed that after a while it had dropped P2P connections and I had to restart the app to make it notice a transfer. But there was no visual indication of that.

Finally, you could allow people to see where the wallet file is stored, right now it's too hard to make a backup. And experience from MultiBit suggests you should make multiple backups of peoples wallets for them, in case of some kind of corruption (bitcoinj won't do that for you).

Thanks mike.
Yes. Totally agree with that. Confidence is important when it comes to a bitcoin wallet app.
Will do some changes soon.

j

[Mike Hearn]

Hi Jonas,

I saw another couple of bugs.

As before,  a transaction arrived for the wallet but despite claiming to be connected, the tx didn't show up.

I restarted MacWallet a few times and now the "Last transactions" menu is entirely empty, though it says the money is there.

My balance currently has a 0.0000000000000001 BTC component to it which is incorrect. Are you storing/rendering balances as a float? Never use floating point numbers for currency! Instead use the bitcoinj formatting routines to get strings, or whatever Cocoa's equivalent of the java BigDecimal class is.

[jonas.schnelli]

Hi Jonas,

I saw another couple of bugs.

As before,  a transaction arrived for the wallet but despite claiming to be connected, the tx didn't show up.

I restarted MacWallet a few times and now the "Last transactions" menu is entirely empty, though it says the money is there.

Hmm… transactions are never stored by MacWallet. It comes more or less directly from bitcoinj's wallet.getTransaction(hash).
If the last transactions menu is not there/empty, maybe a update/timing issue occurred or bitcoinj throwed a exception. Could you start MacWalled by console to get some output? That would really help.
MacWalled needs better error handling! Will be done a.s.a.p.

My balance currently has a 0.0000000000000001 BTC component to it which is incorrect. Are you storing/rendering balances as a float? Never use floating point numbers for currency! Instead use the bitcoinj formatting routines to get strings, or whatever Cocoa's equivalent of the java BigDecimal class is.

Currently i'm storing the balance as satoshis (nanos) in a long long. But when it comes to a display, i render it as a double /100000000.0.
But let my try to use the bitcoinj formatting routings and show/pass strings.

Thanks for your feedback! Really appreciate that!

jonas

[shaobao88]

Great job! looks really amazing! I am getting used to it.

[sleepless]

Love it.

But it would be really nice if I could import my wallet and also it would be awesome if I could delete the BTC-icon from the menubar.

Another nice feature would be to let the user select the data-source for the ticker like here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitcoin-ticker-to-the-moon!/id731453251?mt=12