Re: Scheduled transactions - Since Last Run - Crash

2006-03-19 Thread Ben Stanley
Saturday, 18 Mar 2006, 03:05 CET, Ben Stanley wrote: > > I reported some scheduled transaction problems to Joshua a few days ago > > (when trying to start the Since Last Run dialog, gnucash crashed). This > > one seems to have been fixed now. However, I still get crashes when I >

Scheduled transactions - Since Last Run - Crash

2006-03-17 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, I reported some scheduled transaction problems to Joshua a few days ago (when trying to start the Since Last Run dialog, gnucash crashed). This one seems to have been fixed now. However, I still get crashes when I try to actually create the scheduled transactions. I have the following three ca

Re: Build failure on r13359 - undefined reference to qof_event_{suspend|resume}

2006-02-23 Thread Ben Stanley
Kind of - I'm on Ubuntu 5.10. Ben. On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:15 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > You're on Debian, right? > > -derek ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Build failure on r13359 - undefined reference to qof_event_{suspend|resume}

2006-02-22 Thread Ben Stanley
application of s/mark_dirty/set_dirty/g in four locations within gnc-lot.c in accordance with the supplied patch seems to have fixed the problem with compiling gnc-lot.c . Now I get errors at link time: ../../../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so: undefined reference to `qof_event_suspend' ..

Build failure on r13359 - implicit declaration of function 'qof_instance_mark_dirty'

2006-02-22 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, When I try to build svn version r13359 on Ubuntu 5.10, I get the following error: cc1: warnings being treated as errors gnc-lot.c: In function 'gnc_lot_set_title': gnc-lot.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function 'qof_instance_mark_dirty' make[5]: *** [gnc-lot.lo] Error 1 make[5]: Lea

A simple method of performing budgeting

2001-06-14 Thread Ben Stanley
I have a book which claims to help people to budget and save money. They recommend that you open a bank account which will hold all your budgeted funds. You create a set of accounts for your budget: Utilities Transport Food Rent Savings etc... Unallocated At any point in time, the sum of mone

Balance sheet report for a sub-group of accounts

2001-06-12 Thread Ben Stanley
Here is an IRC conversation I had with goonie, grib and conrad on how to solve a problem with performing a balance sheet report on a partial set of accounts. I have attached an example book which shows the problem. I have also attached the reports file - it's name will have to be changed to i

Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-07 Thread Ben Stanley
Thanks for all the replies. I am now planning to maintain a separation between all the hash table data and the user block areas, to increase robustness in the face of rogue programs. I looked at the pluggable interface in glib 1.3.5. It seems that the g_malloc/g_free etc functions must be ins

Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Phillip Shelton wrote: >I am lost. How does glib compare with glibc? > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >>Ben Stanley >>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:03 PM >> >>I have currently

GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, I recently tried to use a glib compiled with --enable-mem-check to debug gnucash, but instead ran into a 'block freed x times' message (from gtkcalendar.c). The number x was an incredibly large number, suggesting that 1. The pointer being freed had never been allocated or 2. The memo

Enter key does the wrong thing in Account Edit Dialog

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Package: Account edit dialog Version: 2001-06-04 CVS Pressing the Enter key in the account name field does not operate the default dialog button. Instead it inserts an invisible character in the account name field. This problem needs to be checked in all fields of all dialogs it has been

Q: How to record a grant

2001-06-03 Thread Ben Stanley
Here's a silly accounting question: I'm the treasurer for a church... Let's say I get a grant for $500.00 for a specific purpose The money is deposited into the church bank account It is spent in smaller transactions over the course of the following year or so How do I keep track of it? 1)

'close window' and 'move to new window' items -> windows menu

2001-05-21 Thread Ben Stanley
I propose that the close window move to new window items, which currently reside in the 'File' menu, be moved to the 'Windows' menu, and a separator added between them and the window list. I mention this because when the notebook style interface is in use, it is not clear how to close one of

Australian BAS with GNUCash

2001-04-26 Thread Ben Stanley
keep a separate categories for GST items and GST-Free items. This seemed patently ridiculous to me - I'm glad that I spent some time thinking before re-arranging my accounts. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student

gnc-prices support for Finance::Quote regions

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Stanley
package: gnc-prices version: cvs 2001-03-28 Finance::Quote has recently added support for regions - eg australia. However, gnucash doesn't currently allow you to choose 'australia' as the source for a quote. I was told that there was discussion about this recently... ___

Re: average balance graph incorrect

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Stanley
some regularity concerning the time interval, start date and accounts chosen. It seems to bear a much closer resemblance to reality now. Thanks! :-) But I'm really hanging out for line charts showing the precise current balance. I know that's waiting on something in guppi though... :-(

import wizzard currency or security type

2001-03-27 Thread Ben Stanley
package: old file version import wizzard version: cvs 2001-03-28 The drop-down list box for 'type of currency or security' is confusing in it's intent, and to fill in. It is not at all obvious to the novice user what to fill in there. What is an ISO4217? (As a programmer I suppose it would be a

turning off auto-open last file

2001-03-27 Thread Ben Stanley
package: gnucash version: cvs 2001-03-24 Gnucash has a feature where it will automatically open the file you were using with it when you opened it last time. However, since I've recently started using the CVS version in addition to the stable series, and the configuration file is shared, the old

right click behaves surprisingly

2001-03-27 Thread Ben Stanley
package: register window, account tree window version: cvs 24 March When I right click on something (eg in the register window or the account tree listing window), I get a menu of actions which I can perform. However, the action is applied to the currently selected item, not necessarily the item

backups and log files

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
package: file loading/saving version: cvs 26th March I recently lost about 1 1/2 hrs work while using cvs gnucash - I forgot to hit the save button for a while. duh. I suppose you get that kind of thing using cvs version... Anyway, it seems that nothing has happened with the backups and log file

displaying cheque numbers

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
package: register window version: cvs 26th March I have 2 checking accounts, lets call them A and B. I regularly have cheques going from A to B and B to A. I am entering the cheque number in the Num column of the transaction description. So when I look at the register window for account A, I see

Enter key on numeric keypad does not always work

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
package: register window and various dialogs version: CVS from March 26th The enter key on the numeric keypad does not record the transaction when pressed inside a number field in the register window. In various dialogs it enters a control character into the numeric field instead of pressing the

average balance graph incorrect

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
package: average balance report version: cvs 26 March I performed an average balance report on an account that went negative over 3 transactions in one place, but the report showed me that the account was negative three separate times. On comparison to the data in the ledger, the graph appeared

register window: entire split should be visible

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
package: register window version: CVS March 26 When opeining a split (either in auto-split or basic-ledger and then manually open the split), the register window should scroll to show the entire split if at all possible. It would be nice to have at least one or two normal ledger lines visible abo

Re: bug database

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
user-friendly bug database? Is there a way to get on the bugs mailing list? Please document it on that page! Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Sh

bug reporting and database

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Stanley
Bill Gribble. However, I am afraid that bugs posted to the bug tracking system might tend to get `forgotten' unless people receive mail about them... I suppose it's just a matter of getting people into the habit of using the bug tracking system. RFC? Ben. -- Ben Stanley

search dialog complexity

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
yness'... Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogakukan SITACS| DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLISH (Second Edition) University of Wol

searching manual pages

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
currence rather than per page, so that you can click on the occurrence and have the page scroll to show it. I realise that the searching system needs some more work work yet... Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student |

find dialog

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
elor of CS and learn regexps. Crikey, we find it hard enough to teach them. There are probably several tabs affected by this problem. goonie informs me that the search actually implements 'contains'. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FOR

re-parenting accounts

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
An intuitive way to re-parent accounts would be to perform drag and drop, probably with a confirmation dialog. This seems sensible to me, but there may be other issues I haven't thought of... Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, P

feature request: reconciling unbalanced transactions

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
the process of balancing a transaction with several splits. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogakukan SITACS| DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLI

register report

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
gnucash cvs register report does not include notes from splits. I would like it to... please? Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogaku

reconcile window problems

2001-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
eems to be highlighted when the dialog is created, which is misleading... Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogakukan SITACS| DICTIONARY OF NEW ENG

Detecting shared library problems

2001-03-06 Thread Ben Stanley
ndency chains, but I have been able to find out that library X is supplied by package Y without having to have magical knowledge... Ben. -- ------------ Ben Stanley - PhD Student School of Information Technology and Building a bat-like

Re: Register window bugs gnucash-1.4.9

2001-02-12 Thread Ben Stanley
Dave Peticolas wrote: > Ben Stanley writes: > > Hi, > > > > I've found some register window bugs in 1.4.9 (and previous versions)... > > > > I'm using the auto-double line mode. > > > > Text description items: > > > > 1.

Register window bugs gnucash-1.4.9

2001-02-10 Thread Ben Stanley
calculated incorrectly? If I had a clue about gtk I'd whip out the source and figure out what's going on, but I'm clueless in this case. Ben. -- -------- Ben Stanley - PhD Student School of Information Technology

Re: Budgeting in Gnucash

2000-12-01 Thread Ben Stanley
will be used. It would then be possible to plan a major change by saying that some contributions will have a stop date, and other contributions will have a start date. The contributions which are activated on a particular date must look up these date tags. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf

Re: Budgeting in Gnucash

2000-12-01 Thread Ben Stanley
em statement, and help turn it into a design. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogakukan SITACS| DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLISH (Second Edition) Uni

Re: Budgeting in GnuCash

2000-12-01 Thread Ben Stanley
Joshua Sled wrote: > Maybe. A report-based approach is useful, insomuch as it's relevant > to the moment. It's also generally lightweight in terms of the user > point-of-view, and sometimes just that passive information is good. > > It's become clear that while the natural time period to work w

Re: Budgeting in GnuCash

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Stanley
Joshua, I'm glad you are looking into this. You seem to have put in some serious thought. I wish to add some comments, though. A budget is a tool by which a user can compare expected expenses to the history of actual expenses, for the purposes of better allocating income. Once realisti

Re: Australian Cash Granularity

2000-08-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Christopher Browne wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:57:20 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Christopher Browne wrote: > > > > > For all of this, GnuCash has no need for awareness of the $0.05 > > > gran

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Stanley
In Australia, we currently have a curious system. The smallest unit of currency is 1 cent (AU$ 0.01), which is what bank accounts are kept in. However, the smallest coin is 5 cents. All cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. Thus, the denominator for your fractionalised representat

List is getting busy

2000-07-16 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, The volume of mail on the gnucash-devel list has doubled or tripled since the release of 1.4. The bulk of the increase seems to be people requesting help with installation issues. Perhaps it's time to create a new list, called gnucash-help, for these kinds of messages. This would leave gnucas

Crasher in 1.4.0

2000-06-23 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, Gnucash just crashed on me again, after entering a few transactions, but this time I was running with gnucash --debug in a console window. Here's what I got:: gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "main-window-opened-hook # /usr/share/gnucash/scm/engine-interface.scm:148:9: In procedure

Re: denominating currency - was: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Stanley
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've always been doubtful about the use of floating point by gnucash. The problem with floating point types is that they only provide an approximation to what you want. To go into painful detail, here's what I understand about floating point types. The first bit past the

Log File behaviour

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Stanley
er would find out before losing their original file. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - From the Shogakukan SITACS| DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLISH (Second

Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-13 Thread Ben Stanley
When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can't remember if it was a seg fault or bus error or what, but I subsequently had to re-enter everything I had just put in, by referring to the log file. (wouldn

Re: Unable to erase a category/account

2000-06-12 Thread Ben Stanley
Dave Peticolas wrote: > Ben Stanley writes: > > I'm using gnucash 1.3.99, in auto-single mode. > > > > I have been attempting to remove a category from a journal entry (thus > > violating the fundamental principle of double entry accounting...). I > >

Re: Account Popup bug

2000-06-12 Thread Ben Stanley
Dave Peticolas wrote: > Ben Stanley writes: > > The account popup menu sometimes comes up without anything in it, and > > has no width... To reproduce: > > > > gnucash version: 1.3.99 > > (I'm using auto-single) > > > > Enter a transaction which

Unable to erase a category/account

2000-06-11 Thread Ben Stanley
I'm using gnucash 1.3.99, in auto-single mode. I have been attempting to remove a category from a journal entry (thus violating the fundamental principle of double entry accounting...). I erase the category, and press enter to record the transaction. However, the entry comes straight back. What's

Account Popup bug

2000-06-11 Thread Ben Stanley
At this point, you may select the category and type over it, and the popup menu is subsequently OK. Ben Stanley. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unable to edit reconcile field

2000-06-11 Thread Ben Stanley
I'm using gnucash 1.3.99, in auto-single mode. I am unable to select and change the `reconciled' field in a transaction. Ben. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Feature Request: Calendar button in register

2000-05-31 Thread Ben Stanley
Dave Peticolas wrote: > In the meantime, are you aware of the keyboard accelerators > for entering dates in the register? They are explained under > the manual pages under the link 'Date Input'. I looked this up in the help from 1.3.7, and I clicked on the link `keyboard shortcuts' or whatever i

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-05-31 Thread Ben Stanley
called 'transfer to') allows you to > move a transaction into another account. The transfer fields on the > split lines, and the transfer field in the single and double modes, > should work as they always have. > > dave > > -- > Gnucash Developer'

Bug: Category completion broken

2000-05-31 Thread Ben Stanley
few letters of each sub-account or sub-category, and then accepting the autocompletion. Of course you can't use TAB to autocomplete, because that moves on to the next field. Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student

Feature Request: Calendar button in register

2000-05-31 Thread Ben Stanley
entering dates, while using the register. Would it be possible to put in a drop-down button to reveal the calendar? Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed." - F

Re: Budgeting

2000-05-09 Thread Ben Stanley
Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > > > How do you plan to store the data? Any ideas yet? In a separate file? > > > Do you have to store pointers to any existing transactions? Or have you > > > discovred a way of wedging this into the current file format (possibly > > > slightly modified?) > > > > Pr

Re: Budgeting

2000-05-09 Thread Ben Stanley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ;; TODO > > ;; "upcoming/overdue bills" report > > Any sort of cleverness here, or will you simply look at the system > clock when gnucash is started up ... ? I vote for the simplest implementation which works without precluding expansion; bells and whistles such as

Re: Open icon

2000-05-08 Thread Ben Stanley
I vote that the open icon stays gone. I found it potentially confusing, and I never used the open file button. BTW, when I installed GNUCash, I created a GNOME menu item for it, and added the name of my database as a command line argument, thus completely removing the need to open a file explicit

Budgeting

2000-05-07 Thread Ben Stanley
goals sub-accounts or what? (I lost track of what was going on in that wild and heated discussion...) 2. What is the current state of progress? And I want to say that I look forward to using the budgeting module when it is ready! Ben. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2

Bug deleting transactions

2000-04-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, I am using gnucash 1.3.4, and I just tried deleting a transaction. It repeatedly fails to do so, using either the right-click menu or the button bar. Ben. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i18n and check printing and Europe (fwd)

2000-03-25 Thread Ben Stanley
for large numbers are decimal points. Hope this helps. Otherwise, they seem to have it right. Ben Stanley. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnucash logo

2000-03-19 Thread Ben Stanley
I'm currently using (for those of you with a recent version of GNOME) /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-money.png which is just a wad of bills. However, I like your wife's idea. Perhaps a picture of a gnu on a 'one gnu' bill could be used instead? That wouldn't be Linux specific. But then again, that co

Another new user!

2000-03-12 Thread Ben Stanley
patch reports describing automatic duplicate finders, I was not sure that they would help with my problem. Thanks again for an alternative, Ben Stanley. -- Ben Stanley |barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, PhD Student | and everybody barfed.