Re: does cvs work now?

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Does cvs work now? > > Im gettting zillions of dsk-read errors in my logs, I ran fsck/badblocks > but the errors are multiplying, I think the disk is on the verge of failure. > I'll try to get a new hard drive, but this may lead to downtime. > Let me know ... It seems to be working as of thi

does cvs work now?

2000-02-08 Thread Linas Vepstas
Does cvs work now? Im gettting zillions of dsk-read errors in my logs, I ran fsck/badblocks but the errors are multiplying, I think the disk is on the verge of failure. I'll try to get a new hard drive, but this may lead to downtime. Let me know ... --linas -- Gnucash Developer's List To uns

Re: Catching report exceptions - is it a good idea?

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can we either > > > > 1) return things to the way they were. > > 2) modify the exception-catcher to somehow display the error messages > > in the dialog box. > > 3) have a run-time option to decide whether we want the report > > exc

Re: Catching report exceptions - is it a good idea?

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can we either > > 1) return things to the way they were. > 2) modify the exception-catcher to somehow display the error messages > in the dialog box. > 3) have a run-time option to decide whether we want the report > exceptions caught? H

Re: problems in gnc-price

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:34:34 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> are you _sure_ that you have the account set up properly? best Rob> doublecheck the "security" field. ah, yes, user error, that did it. thanks, rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send

Re: problems in gnc-price

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:25:17 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1&s=thr.to Rob> works, as does Rob> http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1&s=lnux Rob> and Rob> http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p

problems in gnc-price

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1&s=thr.to works, as does http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1&s=lnux and http://quote.yahoo.com/d?f=snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1&s=csco . however, even though gnc-prices tries to get my stock info for thr.to, the url

Re: Reports...

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > This is clearly the right way to go, but right now all we seem to have is the > "schemed" interface. > > Are there plans to create some kind of plug-in library interface or a richer > set of UI building calls ? > > I'm not by any means a scheme expert, so I have trouble envisioning respon

Re: question on use

2000-02-08 Thread Buddha Buck
> That's what was causing me confusion. I had this entire debit/credit > tree written out, trying to decide if account x was an asset or > liability account, so that I would know whether transaction y was a > debit or a credit in that account. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I -think- it works fi

Re: Reports...

2000-02-08 Thread Matt Martin
Rob Browning wrote: > Matt Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Agreed that canvas might be the way to go. Also, the guppi project > > might revive itself and provide an even easier option. The cool > > thing about canvas is that we could make some neat interactive > > charts (EG click to se

Re: question on use

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:35:17 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> The total amount going into checking is $900, your net income. >> Your 'income' totals reflects the actual income you are getting and >> the taxes reflect how much you have spent on taxes so far. Chr

Re: Helper Scripts

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:10:02 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> I'd brought Glade up at one point, and Dave Peticolas Christopher> wasn't sure how it could be useful, considering that the Christopher> major GUI object, the register, isn't something that

Gnome Druids

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:26:32 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We might want to look at the Gnome Druids (i.e., wizard dialogs) > that are designed just for ths sort of thing. They are composed > of pages where you answer questions, and the user can

Re: question on use

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 22:08:25 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 17:22:38 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > >> is anyone keeping track of taxes in gnucash? > > >> > > >> I mean, when

Notification: incoming/70

2000-02-08 Thread bugs
Gnucash BugTrack notification new message incoming/70 Message summary for PR#70 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Xacc web-site has wrong link to gnucash Date: unknown 0 replies 0 followups > ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS < Received: (qmail 17263 invoked

Re: decimal places.

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 06 Feb 2000 09:12:55 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am at a quandry as to what to ask for for decimal places. What is > bonking me in the head is a _ton_ of . in the stock register. > This is in the Bought and Sold columns. I was goin

Re: Helper Scripts

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> On 08 Feb 2000 12:45:58 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > While following up on another PR, I found a drop down list box which > > > had "split" listed in it. however, I cannot find a simple way

Helper Scripts

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On 08 Feb 2000 12:45:58 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While following up on another PR, I found a drop down list box which > > had "split" listed in it. however, I cannot find a simple way to do > > a

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On 08 Feb 2000 13:06:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think it'll be too difficult to ask/answer the questions > > relevant to making sure we know which ordering is most appropriate. >

slib

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
Ok, here is what I've found out about slib. First, slib doesn't seem to be packaged by itself, it is always packaged with (and for) a particular implementation of scheme. The slib2c6 rpm that people have been using is a part of the scm-slib package which uses the scm implementation of Scheme, whi

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 14:19:14 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> C-e is much more intuitive for me to "go to end of ", where > >> foo is area, line, section. but ctrl-tab is better than "end". > > Dave> But C-e is already used. It means 'go to end of the e

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 14:19:14 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> C-e is much more intuitive for me to "go to end of ", where >> foo is area, line, section. but ctrl-tab is better than "end". Dave> But C-e is already used. It means 'go to end of the entry'. This Dave

Re: another bug with cvs+dave's latest

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another oddity. When I start up gnucash with my bugs account, and > > click on an account description to open it up, it comes up okay the > > first time. The second time I try to open a register, it only has one > > entry in it, dated 1/23/2000, t

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > C-e is much more intuitive for me to "go to end of ", where foo > is area, line, section. but ctrl-tab is better than "end". But C-e is already used. It means 'go to end of the entry'. This is the way Gtk text entries work and I think we should be consistent with their behavior. dave -- G

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On 08 Feb 2000 15:06:49 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> When the drop down list box is dropped down, it works quite well, >> highlighting the current one you are on, even though you can't read >> it in the "xfer from" field. I would like to see that drop down >> lis

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Walker
> On 08 Feb 2000 15:14:14 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: rlb> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That is cool, but I think it would be better to use the ':' key >> instead of TAB. TAB is already used and rebinding it for certain >> cells would be confusing. Th

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is cool, but I think it would be better to use the ':' key > > instead of TAB. TAB is already used and rebinding it for certain > > cells would be confusing. The ':' key seems more intuitive since > > that is the character that we are comple

Re: gnucash options

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anybody here working on saving preferences? If not, I'll start > > doing that. > > I haven't looked yet, but before I do, could you give me a brief > rundown of how you ended up doing this? It'll help as I look at the > code. This is done in

Re: jutterbug question

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think it's that important, certainly not enough to outweigh > the extra convenience of having everything in one place. Well, for my $0.02 cents, the Debian Bug Tracking System is my favorite. It has both web and email interfaces, and it allow

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is cool, but I think it would be better to use the ':' key > instead of TAB. TAB is already used and rebinding it for certain > cells would be confusing. The ':' key seems more intuitive since > that is the character that we are completing to. We

Re: another bug with cvs+dave's latest

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Also, would it be possible to have a "date range" which is simply, > > "show all"? I would like to be able to have all transactions shown, > > simple as that. > > That sounds good to me. I'd also like a function to set that from my > gnucash.{user,auto} files. What about just an option?

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I need to enter Auto: License. I have to type in "auto: l" to >get it working. Also, "auto: L" works fine. I would >like to shorten this to only have to type "al" to get it >right. Of course, if I had a field called "Accountant grooming

Re: another bug with cvs+dave's latest

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another oddity. When I start up gnucash with my bugs account, and > click on an account description to open it up, it comes up okay the > first time. The second time I try to open a register, it only has one > entry in it, dated 1/23/2000, today, and it

Re: Reports...

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Matt Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agreed that canvas might be the way to go. Also, the guppi project > might revive itself and provide an even easier option. The cool > thing about canvas is that we could make some neat interactive > charts (EG click to see the internals of a pie slice.)

Re: gnucash options

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody here working on saving preferences? If not, I'll start > doing that. I haven't looked yet, but before I do, could you give me a brief rundown of how you ended up doing this? It'll help as I look at the code. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL

share quantities and i18n

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
I have been informed that share amounts in Germany are printed like monetary amounts, i.e., whith a ',' as the decimal and '.' as thousands separator. Currently, GnuCash prints share quantities as non-monetary values, which, at least according to the locale information in glibc, means a '.' for

Notification: incoming/69

2000-02-08 Thread bugs
Gnucash BugTrack notification new message incoming/69 Message summary for PR#69 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Notification: incoming/68 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:51:04 -0600 0 replies 0 followups > ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS < Received: (qmail 1142

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/gnucash.conf (may be symlinked into /usr/share/etc/) > ~/.gnucash/* (may be a dir. Not important for the point I'm making) > ./.gnucash/* > > I believe that many programs use a system similar to this. > > There are two ways we can hand

Re: error on bootstrap

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Son of Yaardvark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > smudge:: /usr/local/app/gnucash/bin/gnucash > gnucash: bootstrap file is /usr/local/app/gnucash/share/scm/bootstrap.scm > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/local/app/gnucash/share/scm/prefs.scm" > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/local/app/gnu

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think it'll be too difficult to ask/answer the questions > relevant to making sure we know which ordering is most appropriate. > > In either case, we can have a reasonably logical way of either: > a) Sequencing which set of configuration t

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Counterpoint: > > What if GnuCash is being deployed as an RPM or .deb package? In that > case, the user is not building the package for a "given machine." Yes, but Debian (or RedHat), should *already know* where they've decided the system config

Re: performing a stock split (pr#15)

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While following up on another PR, I found a drop down list box which > had "split" listed in it. however, I cannot find a simple way to do > a 2 for 1, a 1 for 2, a 4 for 1, or an x for y. What I'd like to see is for us in the common cases, where the "ri

Re: *patch*

2000-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For 1.4, yes. But there's always the reporting architecture, > graphing, interfacing with other programs (ofx?), new reports, > etc. Plenty of stuff left :) Yeah, it's a pretty open-ended undertaking :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D

Re: questions about main window.

2000-02-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3. If I run gnucash like "./gnucash ~/data/thirdtry.xac" and there is > no such file, I get an error dialog which says, "the file > /home/rob/data/thirdtry.xac could not be found". > > a. why doesn't it say, "the file ~/data/thirdtry.xac c

Re: i18n, docs and QIF files

2000-02-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
> 2) > By default, now, gnucash display help in english but I have translated doc > help from gnucash 1.2.x in french. > Anybody have a solution when you have english locale , it display help in > english and with french in french. I plan on implementing this when I have CVS access. As it is, the