Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to be put back into the split, and forced to reconcile > it before recording the transaction. I think that allowing > unbalanced splits should not be allowed, nor recorded, but they > should be spewed forth out of our register. heck, when wo

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it is > probably wiser for me to keep quiet about that 'til I do something > about it like writing a Guile script that can: > a) Dump all transactions in textual form, and Done (mostly). See text-export.scm. It's even available on the extensions

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rats. is this one thing making it tons more difficult than it needs > to be? if i could cat the gnucash files and _understand_ them, I > would use standard tools and perl or sed or python or whatever to > get it working. is there a simple format for gnu

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 20:06:33 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On 06 Dec 1999 19:29:18 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Rob> The problem with this is that there are cases that people have > Rob> already discussed that

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Dec 1999 12:02:47 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The alternative is to create a language that is "completely > > platonic" in being totally unaware at all times what the output form > > wi

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On 06 Dec 1999 19:29:18 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> The problem with this is that there are cases that people have Rob> already discussed that require that the events be scheduled and Rob> run at a particular time even if gnucash isn't running then then; Rob> t

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:12:35 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> An appropriate way to make this more approachable would Christopher> be, when deleting a split, to throw up a dialog looking Christopher> something like the following: Christopher> [ You ha

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Dec 1999 12:18:18 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Currently however, when you delete a 'transaction' in the register, > > you are really deleting the split. Thus, if you delete Split 1 from > > yo

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:40:44 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > I recently switched to using gnucash instead of Quicken (using Wine). > > The one Quicken feature that I miss is Scheduled Transactions. > > I have a few questions: > > > > 1) Do

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Report generator, which walks the accounts and generates our > "report-data". The "report-data" representation is unique > to this particular report (though, if we're feeling really > clever, we might specify some guidelines,

Re: install

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This library, is actually part of the Motif libraries, in > which you will either need to purchase, or grab Lesstif, to use. I > haven't found a version of LessTif over 0.88.9, that works correctly > with GnuCash, so you may want to grab th

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > here is how "the big Q" does it. > > There are no daemons running, the windows 95 laptop is turned off. > We turn it on to do checkbook stuffs, and start quicken. as soon as > we start quicken, it says to us, via a popup, "such and so a > transaction was

Re: install

1999-12-06 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 07:23:34PM -0500, Eric Ford wrote: > I'm running RedHat 6.0 and have the following problem installing... > [eford@eford eford]# rpm -ihv gnucash-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.2.5-1 > [eford@eford eford]# rpm -q --w

install

1999-12-06 Thread Eric Ford
I'm running RedHat 6.0 and have the following problem installing... [eford@eford eford]# rpm -ihv gnucash-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.2.5-1 [eford@eford eford]# rpm -q --whatprovides libXm.so.1 no package provides libXm.so.1 What package

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On 06 Dec 1999 16:21:55 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> One thing I'm sure of is that in order for gnucash to schedule Rob> events that need to occur when it may not be running, it needs Rob> help from some external daemon. You would think that that should hrmm..

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh my, yes. However, the mailing list archive on www.gnucash.org > doesn't seem to have been updating itself lately. Maybe one of the > main participants in that discussion could give a recap? Here's the problem. We want gnucash to be able to schedul

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > However, you're right, with this setup if we didn't want to have to > add a new rendering backend for each output format every time we > wanted to create a new report, we'd have to develop another > "sorta-language" which specified "document structure". So generatng a

Notification: incoming/36

1999-12-06 Thread bugs
Gnucash BugTrack notification new message incoming/36 Message summary for PR#36 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: configure script for 1.2.5 Date: unknown 0 replies 0 followups > ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS < Received: (qmail 26212 invoked from network

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Ed Porras
In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: >Try this patch to my latest version of gnc.gwp: that fixed it.. thanks.. -e -- Ed Porras [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You are the club/restaurant http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ep special God!" - Monica -- Gnucash

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What if we didn't switch modes, but let the user decide to just blow > away all the splits except the 'transaction' split. You would end up > with just the transaction with an empty 'transfer from' field. If > you wanted to add one split, you would jus

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: > >Sorry, I forgot one step. > > ok.. link is set to /usr/share/slib.. now gnucash runs.. when I choose > either menu, I get: > > /home/ep/share/gnucash/scm/report/balance-and-pnl.scm:78:36: In expression ( > gnc:group-get-ba

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Ed Porras
In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: >Sorry, I forgot one step. ok.. link is set to /usr/share/slib.. now gnucash runs.. when I choose either menu, I get: /home/ep/share/gnucash/scm/report/balance-and-pnl.scm:78:36: In expression (gnc:group-get-balance grandchild

Re: Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > I recently switched to using gnucash instead of Quicken (using Wine). > The one Quicken feature that I miss is Scheduled Transactions. > I have a few questions: > > 1) Does a similar feature exist in Gnucash and I just missed it? No. > 2) If not, is anyone working on implementing it? Not

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: > >You have slib 2c5 installed. You need slib2c6. If you are running > >RedHat, you also need to change the 'slib' link in the guile directory > >to point to the slib2c6 installation and not umb-scheme. > > I've installed slib2

Scheduled Transactions

1999-12-06 Thread Matthew Condell
I recently switched to using gnucash instead of Quicken (using Wine). The one Quicken feature that I miss is Scheduled Transactions. I have a few questions: 1) Does a similar feature exist in Gnucash and I just missed it? 2) If not, is anyone working on implementing it? 3) If neither of the abov

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Ed Porras
In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: >You have slib 2c5 installed. You need slib2c6. If you are running >RedHat, you also need to change the 'slib' link in the guile directory >to point to the slib2c6 installation and not umb-scheme. I've installed slib2c6 and chang

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:43:27 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dave> In the latter, you mean we should switch modes and go to a blank > Dave> split line for the transaction? And in the latter, you mean > Dave> delete all the splits except for the one going int

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:43:27 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> In the latter, you mean we should switch modes and go to a blank Dave> split line for the transaction? And in the latter, you mean Dave> delete all the splits except for the one going into the account,

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: > >The new guile reports on the extensions menu? > >Do all the reports generate this behavior? > > hey Dave, I've tried all three.. "Dummy" works fine.. the other two > fail (see below).. > > >What is the error message? > >Do

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Ed Porras
In one message or another, Dave Peticolas said something like this: >The new guile reports on the extensions menu? >Do all the reports generate this behavior? hey Dave, I've tried all three.. "Dummy" works fine.. the other two fail (see below).. >What is the error message? >Do any of the .scm fi

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Currently however, when you delete a 'transaction' in the register, > > you are really deleting the split. Thus, if you delete Split 1 from > > your Checking account, Split 2 remains in the Fuel account. The > > transaction is now unbalanced, bec

Re: latest

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> 3. reports are not working for me at all.. gnucash crashes with no > core.. LCK and LNK are left in the directory.. I don't even know what > to give you guys to track this.. The new guile reports on the extensions menu? Do all the reports generate this behavior? What is the error message? Do

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently however, when you delete a 'transaction' in the register, > you are really deleting the split. Thus, if you delete Split 1 from > your Checking account, Split 2 remains in the Fuel account. The > transaction is now unbalanced, because it does

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The alternative is to create a language that is "completely > platonic" in being totally unaware at all times what the output form > will be. That would mean we have to then create a separate > translator, and effectively add a further sorta-langu

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did this. Problem now solved, for me. Has someone filed a bug > against this package? Oh yeah. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL

latest

1999-12-06 Thread Ed Porras
a few new things I've noticed: 1. launch gnucash, open a register window and then close it (either method) and try to exit gnucash.. you'll get a message box prompting you that changes have been made but are not saved.. 2. add a txn: i.e, expense category FROM credit card x.. delete the transact

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 18:36:44 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I think this is very much the right idea; there is no doubt but that > > there will be value to having a variety of output forms. > > > > Creating what amounts to a "fi

A beginner

1999-12-06 Thread Haines Brown
I've just installed gnucash, and of course have many questions. Where can I find a FAQ, general guideline or manual for configuration and operation? I've a load of questions and don't want to waste people's time with them when I could rtfm. Haines Brown -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscrib

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > /dev : dpkg --status slib > > Package: slib > > Status: install ok installed > > Priority: optional > > Section: devel > > Installed-Size: 1646 > > Maintainer: James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Version:

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:57:29 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Ok, so why not just delete the whole transaction when you delete Dave> a split? Because transactions might have more than two splits: Dave> Transaction Dave> Split 1: Add X to Income::Salary (total in

Re: wife found a bug....

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
> added a new transaction. it was for fuel. it was added to our main > checking account, with a "xfer from" category of "auto:fuel". opened > the "expenses:auto:fuel" register to feel warm and fuzzy. felt warm > and fuzzy. deleted the transaction from the main checking register. > It remain

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Graham Chapman
Some time ago, as theGnuCash readme records, I produced a basic set of ASCII reports for X-Accountant, one of GnuCash's ancestors. This set comprises trial balance, profit & loss, balance sheet and transaction list. They will need minor changes to handle differences between X-Accountant and GnuCha

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, from reading your sample language, I'm not clear whether my > understanding of how such a language would work matches yours. > > My conception was that there would be NO output-format specific > information in the reporting language. T

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /dev : dpkg --status slib > Package: slib > Status: install ok installed > Priority: optional > Section: devel > Installed-Size: 1646 > Maintainer: James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 2c6-2 There are some "uncfortunate" problems with