On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> I've been having a look at adding Palm support, but as that's going
> glacially slowly (understanding gnome-pilot isn't easy and the
> gnome-pilot developers take a few days to respond to each query).
> 
> I think I'll try fiddling with the report while I'm waiting.  Thanks
> for the tutorial.

Excellent.  Looking forward to more people using html-generator.

>  > 2) Internationalize.
> OK.  There's functions to do this already isn't there, it's just a
> matter of calling them in the report?

That's what I've been told.  I haven't gotten around to figuring them out yet. 
It looks straightforward.  I've just been lazy -- I don't need it myself.

>  > 4) Get a good set of query formats.  It's ok to let the user switch on and off
>  > stuff like "Description", but it'd be nice to automatically flick on "Other
>  > Account" and flick off "Account" when they select single-line mode and vice
>  > versa for the other two modes. 
> Um, might be a bit difficult until the option logic gets a bit more
> sophisticated (we'll have to add hooks that can change other option
> values and inform the GUI of the change).

Ayyep.  So, I guess we've now formulated a feature request ourselves.
> 
>  > 5) pick some colours that aren't ugly.  :)
> You're asking me to do this :)

We'll have to connive somebody into doing this.

>  > 6) add a mechanism to save "Favourite Reports".  As well as the parameters, you
>  > should be able save relative dates as well as absolute dates.  IOW, "the
>  > current month" rather than "April 1/2000 to April 30/2000".
> Yes, but that'll probably have to wait until we have in-file metadata
> storage.

I've been waiting for it myself. I have budgets to save, after all.  :)
> 
> Don't know when I'll be able to do all this, but I'll take it the easy
> bits first ;)

It would be kind of silly to do it any other way.  :)

later,
Bryan

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