No GUI notification when needing to rescan wallet #7790

rebroad commented at 10:08 PM on April 2, 2016: contributor

Currently it seems that Bitcoin-Qt gives no indication to the user that it is rescanning a wallet, other than to output to debug.log. If the node needs to catch up with the blockchain, it displays the GUI and lets the user know that it is syncing - why doesn't this same functionality exist for when it needs to rescan the wallet?

jonasschnelli added the label GUI on Apr 3, 2016

jonasschnelli commented at 8:08 AM on April 3, 2016: contributor

Where do you test this? Mainnet or Regtest? IIRC, there is a rescan dialog in the GUI when you – as an example – import an address or pubkey.

MarcoFalke commented at 8:47 AM on April 3, 2016: member

Can you provide exact steps to reproduce, please?

Works locally:

screenshot from 2016-04-03 10-44-22

screenshot from 2016-04-03 10-47-11

laanwj commented at 10:03 AM on April 3, 2016: member

I'm sure rescan progress in the GUI was added in #3928, two years ago - and after that, various improvements have been made to it.

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rebroad commented at 10:12 AM on April 4, 2016: contributor

@laanwj Using Version v0.12, I was not getting this rescan dialog. Perhaps an issue with Gnome?

kirkalx commented at 1:04 AM on April 5, 2016: contributor

What about the status message at the bottom of the splashscreen?

MarcoFalke commented at 9:03 AM on April 5, 2016: member

Jup, the rescan dialog I posted above was a child of the debug window, not a child of the splashscreen. (The splash screen already shows it in the status message) @rebroad If you don't provide exact steps to reproduce and preferably screenshots, there is nothing we could do, as it is not reproducible.

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