I made a new validator address and bonded coins to it. But when it created the validator address it did not create a paired reward address. After closing the GUI and reopening it no longer works and gives error cannot find reward address. The work around was to start the wallet in CLI and add new address which then created the reward address.

I would propose on creation of a validator address it automatically creates the paired reward address.

Initializing the node wizard

The initializing wizard helps users to initialize the node. The initialize wizard has these pages:

Initialize Mode page

User decides what he wants to:

• Create a new wallet
• Restore wallet from a mnemonic seed

It's better to add some icons for these options like Monero.

Current GUI:

Monero:

Create a wallet page

In this page, a mnemonic seed will be generated for the user. To generate the mnemonic seed use this package. More info about BIP-39 can be found here

Current GUI:

Confirm seed page

In this page the user confirms the seed by retyping it again. The paste function should be disabled here and the user has to type the mnemonic seed again manually.

Current GUI:

Password page

In this page user can enter a password for the wallet. The password can be empty.

Current GUI:

Monero:

Summary page

Before the summary page, we should call pactus-daemon with init sub-command and initialize the folder. If any error happens, we need to show it to the user, otherwise in the summary page we show the location of the working directory.

Current GUI:

Monero:

Restore wallet page

If the user chose to restore the wallet, we ask him to enter the monotonic seed again.

Monero:

Questions:

How to let the user change the working directory?

Right now, the default location of the working directory is in the home_dir/pactus folder. We have two options to let user to change the location of working directory:

1. Using command line argument:

The current GUI (and bitcoin-qt) uses this approach. If a user wants to use another location, he can run the GUI with an extra argument. like: pactus-gui.exe -working-dir=C:\another-folder

2. Adding location option in Create wallet page:

In this approach users can choose another folder for the working directory in the wizard.
There is a side effect here: we need to save this location somewhere as a global config (It's different per OS)

Let's choose the first approach for now. but we can change it in the future.

How to show the Validator and Reward address in Summary pages?

The current GUI shows the validator and reward addresses in the summary page. To show these addresses in the new GUI, we need to get these addresses from the wallet:

pactus-wallet.exe address all

A suggestion when broadcasting Bond transaction. It would be very helpful when choosing Account address and Validator address, That the Account numbers would show like they do in main window under Addresses. Just very much easier to send when you the number. Cheers Good job guys.

Missed connect to remote node: