Reset scheduler?

[ajones81]

Is there a way to reset the whole scheduler in one fell swoop, rather than clicking multiple cells like crazy to get them all back to a verdant state?

If not, I recommend something like the right mouse button (unused at present I believe) be used to do the trick.

[DreadWingKnight]

You can click and drag across the scheduler to apply a specific rule across multiple zones.

[ajones81]

No, no, I know that. Suppose I have clicked and dragged to my heart's content and then one fine day I see that I need to change my whole schedule. What do I need to do? Not only would it require more clicks than if I was starting off with a clean slate, but it would IMO be more confusing as well (since the 2 schedules would get all mixed up and the whole thing would be really messy).

Disabling the scheduler using the checkbox retains (as it should) the settings and doesn't clear them.

So what I want is to right-click with the mouse and boom! Instant clearing of the scheduler so that it gets totally and completely reset to a virgin state (all dark green cells). AFAIK, no such feature exists and doing something similar at present requires a lot of needless clicking.

[Ultima]

Well, it takes only one click -- just one really long one

[ajones81]

Heh. Seriously though Ultima, it takes more than one long click to reset them all, esp. if the cells are in different states.

I don't think a simple right-click is that difficult to implement, do you? Also, haven't checked out the latest alpha yet, but does it finally show users that seeding only (pink cells) is possible?

[Ultima]

Nope, the seeding only thing hasn't yet been added to the legend yet, but I was planning on bugging Ryan Norton about it soon anyway

It actually does take only one long click to return everything to green, regardless of what color the cells are in. Just try clicking on one cell until you get to the desired color. When you do, don't let go of the mouse, and drag it around. It'll overwrite any cell the mouse passes over with the last selected color on mouse-down.

It is somewhat of a pain to paint over each and every cell -- I agree -- but resetting via right-click sounds like it would make it too easy to inadvertently reset the thing. Imagine painstakingly painting your desired pattern, then having your finger press the right-click button ever so slightly before you lock the settings in with an "OK" or "Apply"... all that work down the drain :| I'm not sure I care much about a quick way to reset the scheduler, but if it were to be implemented, I'd say a dedicated button labeled "Reset" on the dialog would be a better idea.

[jewelisheaven]

Or you can edit the key sched_table in settings.dat to all 0's

[ajones81]

I'd say a dedicated button labeled "Reset" on the dialog would be a better idea.

I wholeheartedly concur and wait with bated breath...

Oh, and jewelisheaven, not everyone can or might be willing to go mucking around editing .dat files using a hex editor. If anything, I'd say that's even less user-friendly than the method Ultima outlined above.

[Ultima]

not everyone can or might be willing to go mucking around editing .dat files using a hex editor

FWIW, even that isn't really necessary with BEncode Editor Deleting the sched_table key (and perhaps .fileguard key as well if you don't want to see .bad files in the settings directory) would be enough to reset the scheduler.

[jewelisheaven]

?!? That's a sexy program Personally I'm too lazy to make anything of my own, and to view bencoded files I just use torrentspy Now I have a sexy editor as well gratzi.

[ajones81]

Ultima, that's a nice editor indeed, though it needs some publicity (seems I'm only the 3rd person to download it so far!) Good job though!

However, from a user perspective re. this suggestion, I'd still like to have a dedicated reset button (or a right-click + confirm dialog combo).

[jewelisheaven]

Not gonna happen. Seriously how many times are you going to reset your scheduler??

AS stated previously, click one box to white. Then click and drag it across the 24x7 hour blocks to set it all ON. Repeat previous method minus one click for all OFF. Repeat previous method minus one click for all LIMITED. Doesn't matter how many times you click, Shift-drag for SEED-ONLY.

Edit: btw new editor version out, check the thread.

[ajones81]

Err... jewelisheaven, don't take this wrong, but may I ask with whose authority you can state categorically that it's "not gonna happen"?

Re. whether a feature should be introduced or not, if you're not a developer, then all you or I can do is to make suggestions and comment on what others have suggested. The operative word being, "comment". It may be a negative comment if you don't like said suggestion, but that in no way justifies you (or anyone else for that matter) saying that a feature is not worthy of implementation.

Let's leave the final design/implementation decisions in the hands of possibly the admins/moderators and definitely the developers, shall we?

[jewelisheaven]

Let's leave the final design/implementation decisions in the hands of possibly the admins/moderators and definitely the developers, shall we?

And if you read the thread they already spoke on this issue.

[ajones81]

Well from what Ultima said, even he'd prefer a dedicated button labeled "Reset", and I agree. So where's the cast-iron nay in that?

[andkro]

First off let me say that I'm very happy that uTorrent finally supports this feature... I always used to have to run torrents on my mac laptop because I needed this feature and Azureus was the only client that did it well and reliably (Azureus runs like complete ass on windows, yet surprisingly awesome on mac... prolly better optimized java libraries).

You can click and drag across the scheduler to apply a specific rule across multiple zones.

I did notice this after clicking one-by-one 3/4 of my schedule...

1) Its kinda counter intuitive... if you keep this mechanism... there should be some text indicating on the screen that you can switch many of them at once by holding and dragging. I would suggest maybe changing it to holding shift or something on click, as that seems to make more sense to me (but maybe thats just me). Edit: just noticed a couple posts up, that shift+drag = seed only ... so the key combo I suggested wouldn't work but you get the idea... seed only effect should also be listed on the window, along with any others I don't know about, just for ease of use.

2)The table should really have labels at the top I think... just so at a glance you can get a better Idea of the time schedule... you don't have to put hr - hr:59 in the label... simply the end time would be fine as long as it was kept consistent for all of them.

Both of these would just improve the user experience imop... other than that it works well, individual or multiple different limits would be nice but i know its already been requested and I personally don't think its super important... its not too hard to just set one limit to the lowest you would want it to be and just be happy with that.

Keep up the good work... uTorrent is by far the very best BT client for windows.

[jewelisheaven]

The scheduler has been in ... forever.