_popen/_popen-style shell-outs flash a cmd.exe console window on Windows. Add
Platform::runHiddenCapture() — CreateProcess + CREATE_NO_WINDOW capturing stdout on
Windows, popen on POSIX — and route the remaining shell-outs through it:
- GPU-aware idle detection (getGpuUtilization: "where nvidia-smi" / "nvidia-smi --query-gpu")
- xmrig discovery + version (findXmrigBinary "where xmrig.exe"; "<bin> --version", stderr merged)
- wallet-rebuild helper (app_network) — keeps its exit-code check via the new exitCode out-param
None of these are on the launch path (that was the daemon spawn, fixed in a2f84be); each
would flash a console only when it ran (idle-GPU mining, mining tab, wallet recovery).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three verified daemon-startup edge-case fixes centered on the config/params
filesystem path:
- F7: new non-throwing Platform::ensureDirectory(dir, outError) with one
consistent "Cannot create <dir>: <reason>. Check permissions / free space."
message. Replaces the unchecked/throwing create_directories sites at main.cpp
(pre-init: log + Windows MessageBox + return 1), connection.cpp's
autoDetectConfig (was the *throwing* overload -- could raise an uncaught
filesystem_error through its callers; now sets the new
ConnectionConfig::dir_error), and both app.cpp daemon-dir sites (surface via
daemon_status_ + return false). The primary connect path (app_network.cpp)
checks dir_error and shows it instead of mislabelling it "waiting for config".
embedded_resources.cpp already checked its error_code, so it is left as-is.
- F6: verifySaplingParams() now hash-verifies each param against its pinned
canonical SHA-256 (source of truth: scripts/build-lite-backend-artifact.sh)
instead of only checking existence, so a truncated / corrupt-but-present param
is rejected up front rather than failing later on a shielded operation. A
<params_dir>/.sapling_verified marker keyed on size:mtime avoids re-hashing
~48MB on every startup. Logic extracted to the injectable, unit-testable
verifySaplingParamsIn(dir, digests); reuses util::sha256Hex (no new hash impl).
- F5: startEmbeddedDaemon() now checks extractEmbeddedResources()'s return and
the previously-dropped copy_file error_code in the daemon-binary fallback loop,
aborting with a clear status (sb_daemon_extract_failed / sb_daemon_files_failed)
instead of failing opaquely at spawn. An absent source file stays non-fatal.
Adds testPlatformEnsureDirectory and testVerifySaplingParams to test_phase4.cpp.
i18n keys added to i18n.cpp (English source of truth); the res/lang/*.json
back-fill via add_missing_translations.py is deferred to a single run at the end
of the batch. Progress tracked in docs/daemon-startup-hardening.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The lite SilentDragonXLite backend stores its wallet in its own directory
(dirs::data_dir()/silentdragonxlite — %APPDATA%\silentdragonxlite on Windows,
~/.silentdragonxlite on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support/silentdragonxlite on
macOS), NOT the full-node getDragonXDataDir() (…/Hush/DRAGONX). The newly added
lite "Open data folder" button opened the wrong (full-node) directory.
Add Platform::getLiteWalletDataDir() mirroring the backend's get_zcash_data_path
for the "main" chain, and point the lite button at it. The full-node button is
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
settings.json and addressbook.json were written in place with a bare ofstream —
a crash or power loss mid-write truncated the file, and on the next launch the
parse failure silently reset every preference (hidden/favorite addresses, labels,
pool workers, language, theme, lite-server list) because the next save overwrote
the corrupt file with defaults.
Add Platform::writeFileAtomically() (temp file -> fsync -> atomic rename; dir
fsync on POSIX, MoveFileEx on Windows; optional owner-only 0600) and route both
saves through it. On a parse failure, quarantine the unreadable settings file to
settings.json.corrupt-<ts> instead of clobbering it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add pool mining thread benchmark: cycles through thread counts with
20s warmup + 10s measurement to find optimal setting for CPU
- Add GPU-aware idle detection: GPU utilization >= 10% (video, games)
treats system as active; toggle in mining tab header (default: on)
Supports AMD sysfs, NVIDIA nvidia-smi, Intel freq ratio; -1 on macOS
- Fix idle thread scaling: use getRequestedThreads() for immediate
thread count instead of xmrig API threads_active which lags on restart
- Apply active thread count on initial mining start when user is active
- Skip idle mining adjustments while benchmark is running
- Disable thread grid drag-to-select during benchmark
- Add idle_gpu_aware setting with JSON persistence (default: true)
- Add 7 i18n English strings for benchmark and GPU-aware tooltips
Mine-when-idle:
- Auto-start/stop mining based on system idle time detection
- Platform::getSystemIdleSeconds() via XScreenSaver (Linux) / GetLastInputInfo (Win)
- Settings: mine_when_idle toggle + configurable delay (30s–10m)
- Settings page UI with checkbox and delay combo
Console tab:
- Shell-like argument parsing with quote and JSON bracket support
- Pass JSON objects/arrays directly as RPC params
- Fix selection indices when lines are evicted from buffer
Connection & status bar:
- Reduce RPC connect timeout to 1s for localhost fast-fail
- Fast retry timer on daemon startup and external daemon detection
- Show pool mining hashrate in status bar; sidebar badge reflects pool state
UI polish:
- Add logo to About card in settings; expose logo dimensions on App
- Header title offset-y support; adjust content-area margins
- Fix banned peers row cursor position (rawRowPosB.x)
Branding:
- Update copyright to "DragonX Developers" in RC and About section
- Replace logo/icon assets with updated versions
Misc:
- setup.sh: checkout dragonx branch before pulling
- Remove stale prebuilt-binaries/xmrig/.gitkeep
Full-node GUI wallet for DragonX cryptocurrency.
Built with Dear ImGui, SDL3, and OpenGL3/DX11.
Features:
- Send/receive shielded and transparent transactions
- Autoshield with merged transaction display
- Built-in CPU mining (xmrig)
- Peer management and network monitoring
- Wallet encryption with PIN lock
- QR code generation for receive addresses
- Transaction history with pagination
- Console for direct RPC commands
- Cross-platform (Linux, Windows)
DanSandClaude Opus 4.8