Sorry!

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Sorry about the huge mail. Next time I'll check . . . -- --- Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. -- WOP

Re: All that missing documentation...

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There may be a whole lot more than two entries in the > transaction, but the total sum of the Debits, $1,600.00, still > equals the total sum of the credits, $1,600.00. > > This stuff is already in CVS, and has been since near the end

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
"James E. Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I know, there is no such thing as an uncompressed GIF, since > the LZW compression algorithm is an integral and non-optional part of > the GIF format. Actually AFAIK, it is optional. Package: libungif-bin Version: 4.1-3 Section: graph

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tell me I'm dumb, or wouldn't it be the case that uncompressed GIFs > would be, *in raw form,* pretty large, and, since they haven't been > compressed, fairly readily compressed when in tarball form? Umm. Come to think of it, that would be about

Re: All in your point of view...

2000-02-11 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:15:14PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > a) Taxation of transactions can get far more peculiar than many of you > have likely seen. When Odd Things Happen, and a tax professional gets > into the game, their analysis of the critical transactions is far more > importa

All in your point of view...

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > > I do not use Quicken or M$ Money. Does anyone known how these > > programmes deal with this problem? > > Quicken provides reports that indicate portfolio value. I'll ought to > look closer at what they may offer in terms of reporting that is > oriented towa

All in your point of view...

2000-02-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:08:23 +0100, the world broke into rejoicing as Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jan Schrage wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:00:35PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > > > > > > > For profit and loss statements, however, the situation is a little >

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On 11 Feb 2000 18:54:26 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would *significantly* increase the size of the tarball. > > Given what Dave said about gtkhtml, it looks like for now we're either >

All that missing documentation...

2000-02-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:18:56 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Rob Browning writes: > > Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > $1000 is coming from your income, and going into checking and taxes. > > > > That's how I've alw

Notification: incoming/74

2000-02-11 Thread bugs
Gnucash BugTrack notification new message incoming/74 Message summary for PR#74 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ledger display on crack Date: unknown 0 replies 0 followups > ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS < Received: (qmail 5223 invoked from network); 1

"New" button in register window?

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
This button is probably a bit of a misnomer, and the icon is inappropriate. Instead of creating a "new" transaction, it simply moves the cursor down to the blank transaction that already exists. Would a "fast forward" icon be more appropriate? -- ---

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would *significantly* increase the size of the tarball. Given what Dave said about gtkhtml, it looks like for now we're either going to have to use jpegs, live with GIF's, or use uncompressed GIF's. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E

Re: question on use

2000-02-11 Thread John Hasler
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > ...but surely our documentation is covered by the same GPL as the rest of > the software - so if that section of the GPL holds we're safe. You're safe anyway, as long as you are giving the software away. No one can sue you for selling a defective product if you did

can't find nana.h

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Doug Budny writes: > When trying to install GnuCash. I get an error during configure that says > it "can't find nana.h. Is Nana installed?" Where the heck can I find Nana > to install it or can I get by without it? Unfortunately, you need it, for the moment, unless you go with the CVS versio

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Derek Atkins writes: > Why don't we just "call out" to netscape? ;) 1) At least for reports, we currently place a toolbar above the HTML widget that you can use to manipulate the report. Netscape doesn't give you that ability. 2) It takes forever to start up and crashes regularly, two flaws I

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Why don't we just "call out" to netscape? ;) -derek Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob Browning writes: > > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Does anyone mind if we stick with GIF, at least until we (sometime in > > > the long-term future) r

Re: question on use

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > $1000 is coming from your income, and going into checking and taxes. > > That's how I've always thought about it (and represented it), but I'm > sure I have no idea if it's financially "correct"[1]. > > Anyone? > >

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone mind if we stick with GIF, at least until we (sometime in > > the long-term future) replace gtkxmhtml with the new gtkhtml? > > Well, I obviously didn't see this thread before I sent my previous > m

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-11 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > but what about the up-and-down arrow stuff going to completely new > > areas? :-) > > Either make it so that hitting an arrow automatically fully widens the > list, or require the user to delete what they've typed so far which > would automagically

can't find nana.h

2000-02-11 Thread Doug Budny
When trying to install GnuCash. I get an error during configure that says it "can't find nana.h. Is Nana installed?" Where the heck can I find Nana to install it or can I get by without it? Doug Budny IT - System Administrator Due Diligence Inc. http://www.dili

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread James E. Fowler
Rob Browning wrote: > > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone mind if we stick with GIF, at least until we (sometime in > > the long-term future) replace gtkxmhtml with the new gtkhtml? > > Well, I obviously didn't see this thread before I sent my previous > message

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone mind if we stick with GIF, at least until we (sometime in > > the long-term future) replace gtkxmhtml with the new gtkhtml? > > Well, I obviously didn't see this thread before I sent my previous > message about pngs :> > > Ho

Re: gnucash options

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In other words, if there are multiple objects using methods, you can > only define one of them to be using public-func-a. OTOH, if you have > an extra level of indirection, then you can have the global function > be agnostic to the actual method involve

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but what about the up-and-down arrow stuff going to completely new > areas? :-) Either make it so that hitting an arrow automatically fully widens the list, or require the user to delete what they've typed so far which would automagically and incremental

Re: decimal places.

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want 32 bit computers to go away so that we can exclusively use 64 > bit ints for monetary amounts... Maybe you don't have to wait for that. You could argue that now that 400MHz Celerons are about $50, you can just use gcc's long long support (

Re: question on use

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $1000 is coming from your income, and going into checking and taxes. That's how I've always thought about it (and represented it), but I'm sure I have no idea if it's financially "correct"[1]. Anyone? [1] I'd love to see our docs slowly evolve a sectio

Re: GIFs in documentation

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone mind if we stick with GIF, at least until we (sometime in > the long-term future) replace gtkxmhtml with the new gtkhtml? Well, I obviously didn't see this thread before I sent my previous message about pngs :> How bad would it be

Re: Profit-and-loss statement

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would probably be a bit of work -- gnc-prices seems to make use > of the perl networking libraries. I don't think slib has the > comparable functionality. guile has some built in networking code (mentioned in guile-ref). What do we need? If it's n

Re: Rearranging subaccounts?

2000-02-11 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We've just added this to the development version. > > > > To get it, you'll have to > > a) Get the latest CVS. > > b) Add Dave's latest bigpatch > > c) Use the gnome version (I think - I haven't checked whether the > > Lesstif version sup

Re: Yet another average-balance update

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Matt Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried it? I just get the "broken image" picture, tried all > kinds of paths, image in the local dir, using file: prefix.. nothing > wants to work. FWIW the same files work fine if loaded into > navigator, or even the gnome help browser. As a s

Re: question about column resizing

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Walker
> On 11 Feb 2000 14:21:00 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Rob> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In the stock register, when fooling around with some numbers, I can >> resize every window except the balance window. The balance window >> will not resize. This mea

Re: Problem running gnucash

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Vornheder) writes: > PCNEU:/privat #gnucash I'd be cautious about running gnucash as root. It's not designed for that, and if it (heaven forbid) it should go haywire, there's a lot more risk. > gnucash gnucash: bootstrap file is /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/bootstrap.sc

Re: trouble with .qif file

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
David Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I then tried to import a .qif file from Quicken 3.0. I have Quicken > 3.0 on my old Mac PowerBook 140. I exported the transactions to a > .qif file and put the file on a floppy. I then tried to import it > into Gnucash as per the instructions. It co

Re: question about column resizing

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the stock register, when fooling around with some numbers, I can > resize every window except the balance window. The balance window > will not resize. This means you can't show anything more than > 9,999,999.00 dollars. Rough problem to have :> --

Re: Rearranging subaccounts?

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've just added this to the development version. > > To get it, you'll have to > a) Get the latest CVS. > b) Add Dave's latest bigpatch > c) Use the gnome version (I think - I haven't checked whether the > Lesstif version supports this but I d

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

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about always printing it to stderr and showing the dialog? > > I don't want to ignore it during real use, otherwise no one can > report what the error was. Sounds good to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64

Re: gnucash options

2000-02-11 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read the whole thing, and it certainly deserves its excellent reputation. Wow. Where do you get all that free time :> > At first, I defined an option database as a vector with a hash for > the options, a hash for the callbacks, etc., in a similar

Register bug in CVS+Daves patch?

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Diane Trout writes: > Assuming that my copy of CVS refreshed properly... I'm getting a > segmentation fault in the register when using the auto-single or > auto-double styles. > > To duplicate first select an already existing entry, (while in > auto-single or auto-double mode) then click on

Register bug in CVS+Daves patch?

2000-02-11 Thread Diane Trout
Assuming that my copy of CVS refreshed properly... I'm getting a segmentation fault in the register when using the auto-single or auto-double styles. To duplicate first select an already existing entry, (while in auto-single or auto-double mode) then click on the empty item shown at the end of th