BOINC Manager: connecting to other hosts is troublesome

[Rom Walton]

I've checked in a fix for this based off of your patch.

----- Rom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank S. Thomas [mailto:frank at thomas-alfeld.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: boinc_dev at ssl.berkeley.edu; Rom Walton; pkg-boinc-
> devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: BOINC Manager: connecting to other hosts is troublesome
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After BOINC Manager starts, it tries to connect to the client on
> localhost. If
> there is no running client on localhost, BOINC Manager times out after one
> minute and says that the connection failed. This is okay so far, but if
> you
> select another host to connect to while the BOINC Manager is trying to
> connect to localhost, it waits until the connection attempt to localhost
> times out. I would expect that BOINC Manager stops trying to connect to a
> host, after the user selected another host with BOINC Manager's "Select
> Computer" dialog, otherwise you only can connect to other hosts one minute
> after the BOINC Manager has started.
> 
> After a quick look at the code, I came up with this patch:
> 
> --- boinc-5.3.31.orig/clientgui/MainFrame.cpp
> +++ boinc-5.3.31/clientgui/MainFrame.cpp
> @@ -1034,6 +1034,8 @@
> 
>      lAnswer = pDlg->ShowModal();
>      if (wxID_OK == lAnswer) {
> +
> +        pDoc->m_pNetworkConnection->SetStateDisconnected();
> 
>          // Make a null hostname be the same thing as localhost
>          if (wxEmptyString == pDlg->m_ComputerNameCtrl->GetValue()) {
> --- boinc-5.3.31.orig/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp
> +++ boinc-5.3.31/clientgui/MainDocument.cpp
> @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@
>      if (pFrame && !m_bFrameShutdownDetected) {
>          wxASSERT(wxDynamicCast(pFrame, CMainFrame));
>          m_bConnected = false;
> +        m_bReconnecting = false;
>      }
>  }
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but it seems to work here.
> Could you please have a look at this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 
> --
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