How do I open an existing Addresses.cbd on windows?

oh .. there isn't an "open dialog" that I can find. (or a save dialog)
I had to copy my network stored addresses.cbd to C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\MikroTik\WinBox
That sucks a bit. I store my config on a network drive so I can access from multiple devices

Would be really nice if we also get genuine mac-telnet text mode application from Mikrotik...

That does exist, though it is open source and not from Mikrotik: https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet

Since RouterOS features are not dependent on WinBox,
how about making it OpenSource now that it exists on all 3 major platforms?

So all the programmers would have concentrated on improving and finishing v7,
instead of worrying about developing an application that does NOT run RouterOS...

Are the an chance of an open source version of it? So that it can be integrated into Fedora, for example.

• I do agree that in the main Firewall window tabs were better than the drop-down menu that we have now, however
• I really like groups instead of tabs in the firewall rule editing dialogs. Nice move!

1. pop-up links are lost when hovering over an IP address (shows the entire subnet) / status (running - slave)
2. tree lost when showing vlan/queue
3. drop down menu is horrible
4. Dark mode - colours choise is very bad
5. Lost "search" with high-lighting (log, interfaces, ppp-client)
6. Changing "add interface -> new" bad idea
7. Lost "comments" to adding comment in right menu not good
8. Lost "enable / disable" from right menu also confusing
9. Lost undo/redo and safe mode buttons

Please read the whole topic before reporting missing features

./WinBox: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./WinBox)

Which OS is it laggy on? We would like to gather any bug reports and fix them, so please report more specifics, include hardware specs too.

What are the requirements for WinBox 4?
Because on Debian 10, I'm getting an error:

./WinBox: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./WinBox)

Because on Debian 10 + wine 7.0, I'm getting an error:
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It's very beautiful, I love the dark mode, but i cant find the Search box!!!

New version should be automatically available upon launch.

What's new in v4.0beta3:

*) fix crash on macOS 11;

What's new in v4.0beta2:

*) allow closing regular windows with Ctrl+W, Terminal still Ctrl+Shift+W.;
*) restore possibility to filter by flags in table filter view;
*) increase comment column wrap button size and width when wrapped, also hide resize mouse style when comment column is wrapped;
*) fix app stability when table filters used;
*) store current workspace (if autosave) state when switching to other, also fix potential crash on Workspace apply/ok;
*) remove unnecessary debug warning;

What's new in v4.0beta1:

*) initial beta release;

at end od the line

What's new in v4.0beta3:

*) fix crash on macOS 11

When showing comments inline, please move comment column default position to the right as it was in winbox, instead of to the left as it is in webfig.

Win 7 mainstream support dropped almost 10years ago. Noone in their right mind will deliberately compile their software with old libraries (potentially buggy and most likely breaking experience for newer OS users).
If you are not willing to update OS, winbox 3 is not going to disappear at least not in the near future.

If only you'd taken the opportunity to change that meaningless (if not entirely misleading) name, now that its Windoze shackles are finally off :)

As long there is a workspace with 🪟 ...

• Use the system font, font size and font rendering when possible. An option to change fonts would be nice too.
• Clickable elements should change when hovered. The drop down replacement for tabs is lacking this. Table rows could also use it. The table header's hovering is a bit weak and doesn't cover the entire element.
• Only use the pointer cursor for links, not anything else.
• Use neutral grey colors without the cool tint.
• Selected subwindow should be more visually different from a non-selected subwindow.
• Clicking on the background could defocus the current subwindow.
• Remove most of the bold text. It's quite busy and unnecessary. Some dialogs even mostly consist of bold text.
• Buttons could probably use a border for clarity.
• The alternating background on rows feels a bit aggressive, having lines or making it more subtle might be better. It can look like a defocused selection with 2 rows or less currently, which is misleading.
• The `New` button, has a placement, label, and icon that suggests it opens a new tab or window. Changing it to something like `Add Interface` would be clearer, but it seems to belong in another location next to the remove option to me.
• `Enable` and `Disable` should have consistent placement. Currently it may appear in the subwindow's status bar, the sidebar or the context menu.
• Having a toolbar in the subwindow's status bar seems a bit odd. I wonder if just moving it and the item selection count up top would be better. It would be shorter mouse movement with only a few items in the table too.
• Making the subwindow's status bar grey would help frame the subwindow more.
• The table header could use a clearer differentiator with the table rows.
• The actions in the side bar feels too much like links, a darker sidebar background and a border on hovering would make these more like toolbar buttons, which is how they act.
• The main menu dropdown could have the hovering background fill up the entire menu item to make them feel more like menus and not like the sidebar actions.
• Rows should not be colored as selected when focus is on another subwindow.
• Rows should go all the way to the sidebar edge when a scrollbar is not needed. It looks strange with just empty white space without the scrollbar.
• All the menu types should match in style. The main menu and context menu are currently different.
• Subwindows should have clearer borders. Currently the background matches the subwindow border, which isn't ideal. A subwindow shadow could help too.
• Scrollbars should be wider and more visible.

• Change from dropdowns to multi-row tabs to save an extra click when navigating.
• Change from collapsible groups to multi-row tabs again to save both clicks and scrolling.
• Add `Disconnect` text to the disconnect button. The icon looks a bit like a literal bug currently.
• Put the login form back above the device list so there's room to view the device columns.
• Opened windows could probably position themselves over the window that opened them instead of top left.
• Let the enter key login when a device is selected.

• Deselecting a row with the checkbox still leaves it in a selected color. Generally it feels a bit odd to use checkboxes for selections.
• Titlebar could have a " - WinBox" postfix when connected. It's a bit odd with just a space currently.
• Hiding the resource panel only removes the info, not the panel itself.
• Right clicking on a package has empty entries.
• Zoom text on Windows suggests Cmd+Scroll.

Since RouterOS features are not dependent on WinBox,
how about making it OpenSource now that it exists on all 3 major platforms?

• Resizing columns to fit the content by double-clicking on a delimiter between the column headers.
• New, Remove, Enable, Disable buttons should be grouped together.
• Default position of a child window displaying the selected record details is currently the upper left corner of the WinBox window. Previously, child windows popped up at the center of the WinBox window and that was more convenient from my perspective. The center of the parent window can also be used for positioning child windows.

Use Comment field the same way you used Groups before.

Kia ora from Aotearoa New Zealand

Can anyone describe experience in using WinBox 4 for Linux over X Windows please?
I downloaded and extracted the files for Linux onto my headless Ubuntu server. Running the code generates an X Windows black square on my client machine. I get the following text on the server CLI:

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cosste@home:~/winbox$ ./WinBox
APP,INFO: version: "4.0beta1"
PERS,ERR: reading magic1
PERS,ERR: reading magic1
PERS,ERR: reading magic1
DISCOVERY,INFO: bcast addrs: 255.255.255.255, ff02::1, 192.168.80.255,
APP,UPDATE: version fetched: "4.0beta1"
APP,UPDATE: nothing to update
DISCOVERY,INFO: bcast addrs: 255.255.255.255, ff02::1, 192.168.80.255,
DISCOVERY,INFO: bcast addrs: 255.255.255.255, ff02::1, 192.168.80.255,

Can anyone suggest where I have gone wrong, or is X Windows not yet supported?

Steve

2. System - Packages - Check for updates - Download & Install. There was a percentage of download in Winbox 3, now I cannot see it. I can only guess the download has completed by being disconnected. Please fix.

Yes,

- Groups will return in time
- Esc is now CMD+W
- other shortcuts are removed for now, we will make new ones in time

Ctrl+w already works. give it a try. ESC is used for which action?

Please don't bring back the old UI. Just take all feedback/input and improve the UI. It is a progress. Let's do it.

But at least color contrast was fine 😅

Good side:
It does look modern

It is the same as in Windows: Windows UI visibility and usability peaked in the Windows 2000/XP days.

It would be great to have a minimalistic view of the left menu (no captions, icons only) and be able to stick it to any of the edges.

• preserve original text density.
  This was what made Winbox so useful. See for yourself: open the old Winbox and then the new one with 75% zoom. Although both now have the same overall window size, the new Winbox has replaced the original text with a tiny unreadable fonts, adding unnecessary paddings, margins, and wasted empty space around it.  
• preserve original readibility.
  Make the font pure black (#000). Make gray table rows lighter, or better: dont use alternating table rows at all - original cell border is more readable.
   
• remove cold theme
  make neutral tint

This is a big day for us and hopefully for you too.

WinBox 4 is finally here, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

oh .. there isn't an "open dialog" that I can find. (or a save dialog)
I had to copy my network stored addresses.cbd to C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\MikroTik\WinBox
That sucks a bit. I store my config on a network drive so I can access from multiple devices

Same here. We use it with 15+ users so it needs to be on a shared storage

so terrible

• please use v4 rather than 255 on the IP icon. That way it will be standardised with v6 for IPv6
• the "Inline comments" option may be better read as "Comments as column" because you're enabling that, rather than enabling inline comments
• when you turn on comments as column, it's not immediately obvious where the column is. It shows up collapsed to begin with and took me a while to spot that I could click on the column header to show them
• icons on the top right need floating text to describe what they do
• It would be nice to be able to re-order columns
• looking forward to keyboard shortcuts (as raised by others)

Cool. Some people will be very happy for native Linux / Mac version. TBH I was very happy with the old UI, except I hated that 'inline comments' would not persist - I had to set it every time. I can see that does persist now.
Myself, I was fine using Wine on Linux, could not fault how well it ran.

WinBox 4 is finally here, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

When I set the new window to 100% zoom, the window becomes enormous, or I have to deal with scrollbars, making it impossible to see the same amount of information.
Winbox is a productivity tool—why downgrade it by displaying less information on the screen?

-- Address lists (ip -> firewall -> address-lists): Uses up ram & cpu reading the lists. It takes a while to fully load the lists. Going into another menu, ex: Raw, filter, NAT, speeds up the reading/loading process quite a bit. I have 65k addresses. Seems to do this after 35k-40k addresses. A small hEX takes roughly 20 seconds to fully populate the lists. And it's laggy scrolling through it while the memory is decreasing at the same time. The RB5009 takes about 7-10 sec. Also a bit sluggish to scroll through it & memory decreases as well. While having the address-list visible, open other windows, like the log for example, is sluggish as well while scrolling through it. Seems there's a memory leak while the address list window is kept open. Not sure if this is a bug or not as Winbox version 3 does the same thing.

Every popular piece of software I'm using has either already gone bad or its creators have commited to make it much worse in next version. Why?

Every popular piece of software I'm using has either already gone bad or its creators have commited to make it much worse in next version. Why?

It is a problem of capitalism by itself. You cannot sell the same twice. Every software has a reverse parabola lifespan. You can’t always be on a top point, but also it’s not possible to go higher. So….

v4 is not a dead-born product, they can easily fix it.

WinBox is not a paid product anyway.

WinBox is not a paid product anyway.

I have a problem with czech diacritics. In older version, was all good, but now I can see this: ? and corect is: č
So new version doesn't know this diacritics. ěščřžýáíé and write only this ??????
Can you repair this bug, please? Thank you

BUG: if you move window inside main window it stuck on the left side where is the main menu, but you are able to drag window to right and drop it outside the main window. And you are unable to bring it back until you restart whole winbox :)

- Zoom level: 84% - looks great. Tried 100, 92, 84 & 75. 84% looks best in my opinion. Didn't have any issues with icons, text, or layout in either of the zoom levels.

I like how an extra folder containing a single image file needed to be packed for distribution :P

Could be that MT devs started rectifying this by communicating UTF-8 from WB4 towards ROS but handling is not complete?