[Tilesathome] Windows client problem.

[Ed Loach]

Hi Thomas,

That is a feature of the Windows client - the display in the GUI
client puts so much information in the textbox and then it gets full
and you can't tell what it is doing. I had a similar issue when I
started running the Windows client.

Much of the information is actually displayed in a hidden console
window anyway, which is the information most useful when there is a
problem.

I've customised my own Windows client and emailed some of the things
I've done to eddi as suggestions that might get incorporated in a
future version. These include:
* using Perl 5.10, rather than 5.8, to resolve a bug
* having a checkbox to display/hide the console window (until and
unless all output can be redirected to the GUI textbox)
* add code to the textbox change event so if it gets over 75% full
it removes the first third of the existing content (taking it down
to 50% full)
* default installation path to c:\TilesAtHome\ as c:\Program Files\
(%PROGDIR%) has multiple issues under Vista (virtual paths and paths
including spaces).

While not an official or even unofficial build, the setup package I
created to install my amended version on my wife's machine is here:
http://www.loach.me.uk/tah/setuptah-light.exe

Ed