Gridcoin-research: Add Current Block Number To the Main Tab in a Graphical Way

[RoboticMind]

This could be done either only when syncing or in at all times

Here's the way Curecoin does that:

A more zoomed in view:

We could do something similar

This would help new users know that
1) the wallet is syncing by itself
2) the progress of that syncing

[tomasbrod]

Current block number IS already displayed on the main (Overview) tab.
Voting to close.

[RoboticMind]

What I meant by that is display a more clear indicator of:

the current block and how far it is behind the network
and to do this in a graph or something immediately clear to the user

The current way it is displayed doesn't tell users how far it is in syncing and is harder to find

[iFoggz]

what will determine the top block on the network. to be honest u can say that a certain node is correct height or not and just go for it.

[RoboticMind]

There already is an estimated total blocks number in the debug menu. why not use that? It seems to be accurate enough.

[RoboticMind]

Here's where I believe the estimate is created:
https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/blob/development/src/checkpoints.cpp#L72

[ethanteng]

Has anyone picked this up, or is this confirmed to be part of the larger GUI update? If not, I was thinking of taking a crack at it.

[jamescowens]

I don't think the GUI update specifically framed this out. Make sure you do this off of the dev branch. Many many changes compared to the master branch.

[jamescowens]

We should do this as part of the Bitcoin code rebase, since the necessary primitives are there to support this.

[cyrossignol]

Yep.