Application Name and Version not Shown in Tasks View

[Kevin Reed]

The user friendly version of the application name for a given task is not being displayed on the tasks view.  This is an important piece of information.

[JacobKlein]

What do you mean?

On the Advanced View, if I go to the Tasks tab, within the grid is a column called "Application" that appears to show the friendly Application name, the version of the application, and also the plan (I think -- it says things like (cuda42) or (nci).

On the Simple View, within the Tasks combobox, the entries appear to be actually named by the friendly Application name.

Is it possible that you may have accidentally resized the "Application" column on the Advanced View grid? Its location is between the "Deadline" column and the "Name" column. Even if you did resize it to 0, if you move the mouse cursor to be as far right as possible near that resizing area between those columns, you should see a special resizing-cursor that will allow you to add size to the 0-size column.

Does that help at all? Or is your problem something else entirely? Or maybe are you referring to Android?

[Kevin Reed]

Please see my screen shot. When I first installed (this version or one of the stock BOINC versions) the column was shown. However, it has disappeared. I will try restarting my computer and see what happens.

[JacobKlein]

Resizing a 0-size column

[JacobKlein]

Did you try seeing if it is a 0-size column that needs to be resized? I have attached a file that includes 4 images.

Images 1 and 2 show using the standard mouse cursor to resize an existing column.
Images 3 and 4 show using the special "unhiding a colum" cursor to add size to a currently-hidden 0-size column.

Does this help you at all?

[Kevin Reed]

Ok - yes - it was a 0 width column.

Since I did not intentionally make it 0 width it is possible I did it accidentally.  However, I would argue that 0 width columns are not a good practice.  If the intention is that columns should be selectable, then there should be a dialogue that allows for the selection of columns shown (for example, right mouse click on the header/title row and choose what columns should show) and then make a 1 width min exist for columns so they don't vanish.

I will downgrade this to minor though since I believe it required user interaction to make it disappear.

[JacobKlein]

I'm glad that was the "problem".

I'm of the opinion there should be some way to hide a column. I'm not sure how much flexibility they have in the WxWidgets? controls, so the current solution may be the only option, not sure.

But because setting a column this way is the intentional behavior currently, you might even consider changing this ticket from Defect to Enhancement.