connect bitcoin-qt to a running bitcoind?

[Costia]

I want to run bitcoind in the background and start the gui only when needed
I have seen someone suggest to use the -server option but i didn't find any documentation on that
So, how can i make the bitcoin-qt GUI connect to a running instance of bitcoind (on windows)?

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[lucif]

I tried to do this with 0.5.2 without luck

I put bitcoind on a remote home server and tried to connect to it with bitcoin-qt with -server command line option (and config option). But when bitcoin-qt starts, it starts to download initial block chain and using local wallet.dat

[Costia]

*bump*
still looking for a standalone bitcoind GUI for windows

[stcupp]

the gui bitcoin has bitcoind built into it

make a new .bat file and in it write

Code:

C:\path\to\your\bitcoin\folder\bitcoin-qt.exe -server

and the GUI bitcoin will do the same thing as bitcoind

[Costia]

the point is not to run the gui - it sometimes crashes . bitcoind is stable.
so i run bitcoind in script along with my miner and p2pool
but sometimes i want to view my wallet in the GUI
currently to do that i have to stop the bitcoind (which causes errors in the p2pool client and the miner) and run the gui
i am looking for a way to make the gui connect to an already running instance of bitcoind

[terrytibbs]

the point is not to run the gui - it sometimes crashes . bitcoind is stable.
so i run bitcoind in script along with my miner and p2pool
but sometimes i want to view my wallet in the GUI
currently to do that i have to stop the bitcoind (which causes errors in the p2pool client and the miner) and run the gui
i am looking for a way to make the gui connect to an already running instance of bitcoind

Try something like Spesmilo. It connects to a running server instance over RPC.

[Costia]

Principal authors: genjix and Luke-Jr

scary

i hoped i can do that with the official client...