Add configuration widgets for per slot configuration.

[jcoffland]

Reported by @bb30994 on 6 Aug 2010 06:59 UTC

Apparently the GUI cannot set config items on each slot. e.g. - I need to set GPU priority to Slightly Higher and uniprocessor to Lowest Possible ... or ... %CPU on a single slot to 97

[jcoffland]

Comment by @jcoffland on 6 Aug 2010 19:47 UTC
You can manually set the relevant options via "extra slot options". I think making a per slot "advanced" configuration would make the GUI overly complex.

[jcoffland]

Comment by @bb30994 on 1 Mar 2011 23:12 UTC
According to your new definition of what's being reported, I think this is almost fixed. Even in the Advanced mode, the "Advanced" tab works for global setting; for individual slots, the slots+(choose)+Edit displays the '''Extra slot options (Expert only)''', and while the Advanced user may have trouble figuring out what to call the options shown on the Advanced tab, the Extra slot options would allow him to set those options to apply to a single slot, it's still shown, even when set to Advanced.

Pause on battery can only apply on a global basis so it's not an issue. I think that the Verbosity setting applies to FAHClient, not to the slots themselves, so the issue is subtly different in that the setting is really about instead.

That puts the following into a special class for Advanced users when they want them for specific slots.

• core-priority <idle | low>
• cpu-usage
• no-assembly and/or
• checkpoint
• cpu-affinity <true | ....>

More that half of them are meaningless unless they can be applied differentially. How we choose to document them for the Advanced user matters. The previously closed ticket about providing a pull-down list might be the right way to handle these (and only these) options.

[jcoffland]

Comment by @PantherX on 2 Mar 2011 04:08 UTC
If the drop down menu is difficult, how about those values are already entered with default values and the user just has to select them and click "Edit" to change the value?

[jcoffland]

Comment by @7im- on 7 Oct 2011 17:38 UTC
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=19764

''kscott wrote on Oct 07, 2011:

Is Standford being lazy with the V7 client?
Is it so hard for them to put in check boxes and auto-detect?
I just find it kind of stupid to have to type in the flags instead of having the option to turn on/off a flag by just checking/unchecking a box

FAH Tracker has these options''

A few check boxes for the most common options like client type advanced on an advanced tab is probably the way to go, as Bruce suggested.

[jcoffland]

Comment by @jcoffland on 9 Feb 2013 23:20 UTC
Right, "lazy" because we are just sitting here twiddling our thumbs with nothing to do.