Looks Good

2001-01-24 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Alex J.P. writes: > Hi All, > > Finally got the unstable version to compile and run. The initial look at the > new register windows and the help system in one short word is WOW!!. It looks > really good. (A few more WOWs like this and we are going to make a lot more > waves than we are m

Looks Good

2001-01-24 Thread Alex J.P.
Hi All, Finally got the unstable version to compile and run. The initial look at the new register windows and the help system in one short word is WOW!!. It looks really good. (A few more WOWs like this and we are going to make a lot more waves than we are making now) The XML output of the da

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Peticolas
writes: > > Plan X: > Rip out any notion of "reporting currency" out of the engine. > As discussed above, this is a lot of work. Hard work, at that. > > Plan Y: > Leave the reporting currency inside the engine, as it is today. > Maybe even enhance it so that multiple reporting currencies >

Re: reporting/account currencies

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:09:38PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No. Because this returns the "wrong thing". For an ibm stock > account, it would return IBM. Whereas both the main window, and > the register need USD (the "reporting currency"). It's my position (call it "position B" :) tha

Re: reporting/account currencies

2001-01-24 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Christian Stimming said: > > But in the current implementation nothing related to accounts is called > "reporting currency", so it is confusing to start with that now. Yes, and part of my proposal is to change the name. To avoid future confusion. > Do you > mean the

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said: > Is this what you are proposing: > > Account Security stays the same, with the same meaning. Yes. except maybe we should call it "account commodity". > Account Currency becomes Account Reported Currency and is > the currency used in the main window.

Data type for commodity-value needed

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Bill, While I was writing the report code for displaying the commodity (aka currency) with the accounts balance, I realized that maybe we need a new data type to represent that: A type which represents a gnc:numeric value and its corresponding gnc:commodi

Re: reporting/account currencies

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:00, you wrote: > > I disagree with Linas in that accounts should have a > > "reporting currency". > > I wasn't trying to say that they should. I was instead stating that > that they do, in the current implementation. That's how

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Christian Stimming said: > Recall that the "reporting currency" can be changed anytime (= I agree > with Bill on this). As do I. > I disagree with Linas in that accounts should have a > "reporting currency". I wasn't trying to say that they should. I was instead sta

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread linas
OK, This conversation has gotten to theoretical. I was trying to solve an immediate programming problem. The SQL database stores currencies the way we agreed they were soppused to work half a year ago. As a practical matter, this doesn't mesh well with what the engine currently does. So I wa

Re: report debugging output?

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:11:01AM -0800, Christian Stimming wrote: > How can I debug reports? If scheme crashes, it used to print tons of > useful information to stderr. But now (as opposed to the behavior in > December) no scheme errors are printed. Did I miss a new option? This is a bug. I'

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > -- The user is allowed to create transactions whose 'valuation currency' > > >is different than the 'reporting currency'. However, if this is > > >done, then a GUI window pops up with a question "how should this > >

Re: reporting currencies & integrity

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:35:28PM -0800, Christian Stimming wrote: > I repeat my question from today afternoon: Where can I find more > information about the "price database" that you're talking about? I haven't > found it anywhere in the source. Or what kind of database do you mean, > Linas?

Re: usage of html-table-cell

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:05:28AM -0800, Christian Stimming wrote: > Could you please explain to me your intented usage of html-table-cell ? I > didn't understand the documentation, neither the one in report-html.txt > nor the one in sourcecode around the function. The idea for tables is that

Re: AccrInt

2001-01-24 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Thank you. Then why did they put frequency in?  In the equation def. frequency does not do anything. Should it?  Nor for that matter is first_Interest used either. Phill "John S. Dey" wrote: The definition given is a poor one.  Accrued interest also applies to new issues and interest is accrued d

report debugging output?

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, How can I debug reports? If scheme crashes, it used to print tons of useful information to stderr. But now (as opposed to the behavior in December) no scheme errors are printed. Did I miss a new option? Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver