Re: GUI Building

Rob Walker writes: > >> The only reasons I was talking about using qt was because I thought > >> that QT was the only toolkit which ran under windows and because I > >> was hoping to stave _that_ whole argument off before it happened, > >> and to keep the two GUIs in sync with each other in

Re: "financial reporting language"

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now, the first thing that happens is that the bracketed report-string > > expression is evaluated. my-port is bound to anything in the frame > > where report-string is evaluated, is it? > > my-port is bound to whatever is the value of my-port

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Re: Database Backends

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest considering B-trees instead. No problem here. > To access it efficiently, there are .ndx files that contain B-Trees > (of some flavor; I'm willing to not bother trying to distinguish between > B-trees, B+-trees, and B*-trees if you're

Re: GUI Building

> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 08:20:08 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> Why *precisely* do you think it is vastly important to Christopher> simultaneously use multiple GUI toolkits? 1. using Qt is the only way that I know of for us to have a windows version

Re: "financial reporting language"

On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 13:57:28 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne writes: > > (In the context of the functions report-value, report-date, report-total): > > > > >2) What should these functions return? At this stage, they

Notification: incoming/54

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Re: "financial reporting language"

Christopher Browne writes: (In the context of the functions report-value, report-date, report-total): > > > >2) What should these functions return? At this stage, they have to > > > > return some kind of data structure which would probably be a vector > > > > containing > > > > i

Database Backends

On 01 Jan 2000 14:17:18 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > An SQL backend is needed for business users but is scary to think about > > the management headaches for a novice/computer newbie. For the home > > user, alter

Re: equity accounts and timed transactions

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be game to change some of the terms slightly, although they're > not overly inappropriate, and may be helpful to naive users that are > not "debit/credit-literate." I'm not very accounting-savy, but if there really is a "correct" way to do it,

Re: GUI Building

On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:30:50 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:12:16 -0600, Christopher Browne > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > what are the IDEs which kick out both gtk and qt code? maybe I should > take a stab a

Re: Callbacks and stuff

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was reviewing the contents of /usr/include/glib.h over the > holidays to see what interesting data structure abstractions GLIB > (which underlies GTK) provides. Now that glib is independent of gtk and gnome, then relying on its features when the

Re: Your "financial reporting language"

Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) The use of "thunk" here makes me think I have misunderstood the > return value of report-value and its ilk. A thunk, as I understand > it, is a no-argument function. If I do the following > (define x (list 1 2 3)) > Does "x" become a thunk?

Guiled Reporting

It seems to me that it's wiser to construct design material into actual documentation rather than to merely talk about it. See URL below. -- Go, lemmings, go! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [E

Re: Transaction Locking

Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction." > After a while, especially with a busy set of accounts, this can > amount to thousands (or in the case of a business, even millions) of > transactions. It just doesn't scale very well.

Re: Transaction Locking

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > An SQL backend is needed for business users but is scary to think about > the management headaches for a novice/computer newbie. For the home > user, alternate possibilities are: > -- using dbm > -- using dBase/foxbase style file formats. Does anyone know what the c

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > d) A *major* merit to the "each transaction a directory" idea is that >it makes it easy to manipulate the data structures by hand or by >script whilst the program is running. Until someone hacks a Guile >Listener into GnuCash, the abil

Re: Transaction Locking

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For this to be useful, this should try to provide some remediation > measures: > a) A timestamp would be valuable; if the transaction has been locked >for 7 hours, this may indicate that something's broken. You could use an approach where the

Re: GUI Building

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this begs the question: > > Why *precisely* do you think it is vastly important to simultaneously > use multiple GUI toolkits? > > I don't see there being any technical merit to the idea; having to > conform to two GUIs at the same ti

Re: GUI Building

> This approach would be fairly compatible with the notion of writing up > GUIs using Glade, and implementing using libGlade. libGlade reads in > the GTK GUI representation in XML form, which means that if you wanted > to have several visibly different GUIs, you might create: > a) GnuCash-gui

Re: Transaction Locking

> > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:39:55 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dave> I think 'enter' should mean 'commit and move down one row', just > Dave> like in Quicken. It's not pressing enter twice that would get > Dave> annoying, it's the constant popping up of dialog

Re: Guiled Reporting

> It seems to me that it's wiser to construct design material into actual > documentation rather than to merely talk about it. > > See URL below. > -- > Go, lemmings, go! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This pages give me Not Found The requested URL /~cb

Re: date range in register.

Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) Providing the ability to write data out to random-access data > structures (I'm thinking of prototyping something where each > transaction establishes its own directory, and then writes data > into a DBM file inside that directory), and

Re: GUI Building

> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:12:16 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: what are the IDEs which kick out both gtk and qt code? maybe I should take a stab at each of them. >> Write the UI with an UI editor, with an UI editor which could kick >> out both QT and gnome, and t