Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Steven Murdoch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Gribble wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:30:05PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: > > It seems clear to me that there are many occasions where a value > > is stored, and it's only permissable values are integers (things > > like number of share

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Terry
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > Unfortunately, all Bill has provided is a way of representing and > manipulating rational values. There's nothing particularly _wrong_ or > awful about having that. I don't think we need to go so far as to burn > the proposal, strew the ashes in a field, and

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Terry
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > I haven't seen a > > similar single discription and corresponding implementation on your > > proposal. > > I haven't made it in that form because it is too trivial. That should make it easier to put down so that others can review it, comment on it, improve on

Performance improvements to gnucash

2000-07-29 Thread Bill Carlson
Hi, I've been starting to make some performance improvments to gnucash. As background, I have a .xac file of about 1.5MB (10 years of transactions) so there are some things where it is quite slow (like loading and exiting). The following patches are based on the current CVS tree but ap

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Gary Bickford
> My question is would it be *easier* to implement the modifications > needed to Gnucash if another type and it's associated funcions were > added to the API that could only represent integers (say stored as a > 64bit integer)? > Using 64 bit integers is a very powerful approach. I posted a note

Re: Duplicate transactions when importing QIG

2000-07-29 Thread Bill Gribble
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 04:57:53PM +0100, Keith Refson wrote: > What do you have in mind for the full facility? A near-miss match > with a query window? My current thought is that we'd have a two-column window that's a distant cousin of the reconcile window. For each imported transaction (possi

Re: Duplicate transactions when importing QIG

2000-07-29 Thread Keith Refson
Bill Gribble writes: > The kind of duplicate detection you are looking for is in the feature > list for the next revision of the QIF importer. It's a little > trickier, because the fields describing the transaction are often very > different (comparing a hand-entered transaction to a downloa

Re: Duplicate transactions when importing QIG

2000-07-29 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > The kind of duplicate detection you are looking for is in the feature > list for the next revision of the QIF importer. It's a little > trickier, because the fields describing the transaction are often very > different (comparing a hand-entered transact

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:30:05PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: > > It seems clear to me that there are many occasions where a value is > > stored, and it's only permissable values are integers (things like > > number of shares, bank balance, number of ac

Re: Duplicate transactions when importing QIG

2000-07-29 Thread Bill Gribble
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:26:53PM +0100, Keith Refson wrote: > I am currently running 1.43. When I import a qif file from my online > bank which contains transactions already in the gnucash record, the > duplicates are not detected and the transactions are recorded twice. > > Am I correct in un

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Bill Gribble
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:30:05PM +0100, Steven Murdoch wrote: > It seems clear to me that there are many occasions where a value is > stored, and it's only permissable values are integers (things like > number of shares, bank balance, number of accounts etc...). Bill's API > is clearly sufficien

Duplicate transactions when importing QIG

2000-07-29 Thread Keith Refson
I am currently running 1.43. When I import a qif file from my online bank which contains transactions already in the gnucash record, the duplicates are not detected and the transactions are recorded twice. Am I correct in understanding that the qif importer is supposed to eliminate duplicates?

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-29 Thread Steven Murdoch
It seems clear to me that there are many occasions where a value is stored, and it's only permissable values are integers (things like number of shares, bank balance, number of accounts etc...). Bill's API is clearly sufficient for this purpose and already has the required functions to accomodate