Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Dave> + Some gui tweaks. > > > what were the gui tweaks? Making sure the dialogs (edit, transfer, etc.) have a default active widget, little things like that. > a few notes on the register. (I used a stock register, if that > matters any) > > When I open, resize, close, reopen the reg

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I notice myself clicking on the "stocks" + symbol, and then the "va > linux stock" thing quite often. If someone is wondering what to do > next, state in the main account window would be nice. > > It would be s nice to not have to hit the little + button to > expand or collapse a parent

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:12:09 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I notice myself clicking on the "stocks" + symbol, and then the "va >> linux stock" thing quite often. If someone is wondering what to do >> next, state in the main account window would be nice. >> >> I

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:02:23 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Making sure the dialogs (edit, transfer, etc.) have a default Dave> active widget, little things like that. cool, so now we can hit enter instead of using that blasted mouse! (does control-j or contro

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Herbert Thoma
Dave Peticolas wrote: > > I'm not sure I agree with making the scroll bars disappear. That could > cause some wierd effects with either showing or hiding a partial > transaction, or causing the window to resize a lot as the scroll bar > gets shown/hidden. Gnumeric, for instance, has scroll bars s

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I agree with making the scroll bars disappear. That could > > cause some wierd effects with either showing or hiding a partial > > transaction, or causing the window to resize a lot as the scroll bar > > gets shown/hidden. Gnumeric, for instance, has s

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 02:12:09 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> I notice myself clicking on the "stocks" + symbol, and then the "va > >> linux stock" thing quite often. If someone is wondering what to do > >> next, state in the main account window would be

Re: balance sheet with date range

2000-02-27 Thread Herbert Thoma
Brett Wuth wrote: > > Hi, > > I needed a report like the balance sheet and profit loss statement > ending on a specific date. So I've hacked away at the > balance-and-pnl.scm to add date ranges. I'm submitting it here in > hopes that it might be useful to someone else. Please forgive the > ro

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Dave> If you want a different height, you can use the preferences to > Dave> change the number of default rows. > > I see. We set the width defaults implicitly per register as we use > them, and they get saved individually for each register in our > config.auto file on the fly. But on the

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Herbert Thoma
I have a request for still more GUI tweaks: The dates in the transfer dialog and report options dialogs are american style, regardless of the preferences/international settings. Same thing with currency symbol, always $. -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Weichselgarten3, 91058 Erl

Re: Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Heath Martin
Dave Peticolas writes: > > Dave> I'm not quite following you here about what steps to go through > > Dave> to get the bug. > > > > resize really wide. 2x click on each header, so that there is a whole > > bunch of white space on the far right. now resize just a little bit, > > by draggi

Notification: incoming/83

2000-02-27 Thread bugs
Gnucash BugTrack notification new message incoming/83 Message summary for PR#83 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: crash at date entry Date: unknown 0 replies 0 followups > ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS < Received: (qmail 9945 invoked from network); 27 Fe

good news

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
Hi all, I now have CVS access, so it looks like the days of the bigpatch are over :) (woohoo) I have to step out for a little bit, but when I get back I'm going to update CVS. Note to Herbert Thoma: I think I have the crash bug you reported fixed. When I get CVS updated, could you check it? Th

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is something that deserves some discussion, because the > solution is not entirely clear. Somehow, we should associate > the account-expanded state with each gnucash file, but we > shouldn't save the information in the actual file itself, > since

Re: good news

2000-02-27 Thread Jeremy Collins
While I think this is great I am afraid that it will overload ( bandwidth ) the current CVS server. I assume it is still located on Linas's machine? And that he still only has a 128Kbps connection? If so we really need to consider a read-only mirror... or daily snapshots... I am around this

Re: good news

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > While I think this is great I am afraid that it will overload ( > bandwidth ) the current CVS server. I assume it is still located on > Linas's machine? And that he still only has a 128Kbps connection? If > so we really need to consider a read-only mirror... or daily > snapshots... Lina

Re: good news

2000-02-27 Thread Jeremy Collins
Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > > While I think this is great I am afraid that it will overload ( > > bandwidth ) the current CVS server. I assume it is still located on > > Linas's machine? And that he still only has a 128Kbps connection? If > > so we really need to consider a read-only mirror.

CVS

2000-02-27 Thread Jeremy Collins
Ummm... following error ours when I try to update/checkout from CVS. Server configuration missing --allow-root in inetd.conf cvs [checkout aborted]: authorization failed: server cvs.gnucash.org rejected access Jeremy -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTEC

cvs

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
Anon cvs access is currently out. Linas will restore it in about an hour. Sorry for the delay :) dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:20:49 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > I'm not sure I agree with making the scroll bars disappear. That could >> > cause some wierd effects with either showing or hiding a partial >> > transaction, or causing the window to resize a lot as th

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:25:13 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> We could have a separate file that is saved in the same Dave> directory for each user, but that seems a bit messy. We could Dave> save the state in the user's config.auto under a specific file Dave> na

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:29:20 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I see. We set the width defaults implicitly per register as we use >> them, and they get saved individually for each register in our >> config.auto file on the fly. But on the height, it is set globally

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:25:13 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dave> We could have a separate file that is saved in the same > Dave> directory for each user, but that seems a bit messy. We could > Dave> save the state in the user's config.auto under a specific

Re: good news

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:47:11 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> I now have CVS access, so it looks like the days of the bigpatch Dave> are over :) (woohoo) woohoo ^ woohoo. Dave> I have to step out for a little bit, but when I get back I'm Dave> going to update C

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On 27 Feb 2000 14:52:54 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: rlb> As a more radical alternative, we could switch to using a rlb> directory per account group rather than a file, and it could rlb> contain whatever files we need in order to carry all the right rlb> state around

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Dave> The status bar would look very strange in that case, It has a > Dave> uniform size for all the windows right now. > > yes, you are right. what about snapping to an integral number of > lines? setting the width on the fly for people, but not the height > seems kinda inconsistent to me

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:27:09 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> 1. Is it a design goal to allow people to open up a parent >> register and actually put transactions in it? I was not thinking >> that it was, and every time I acidentally open up a parent register Dav

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > would it be wise to talk to the ex-apple guys to see what they have in > mind for their "world saving linux interface"? Maybe, though I'd rather use something fairly straightforward if we can, and I can't think of anything more straightforward than this

Re: *patch* 2000 02 26

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I have a request for still more GUI tweaks: > > The dates in the transfer dialog and report options dialogs > are american style, regardless of the preferences/international > settings. Same thing with currency symbol, always $. I have fixed the $ problem for the dialogs. The date problem stem

cvs

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
cvs is up and updated. Let me know if you have success/problems getting and compiling it. I'm going to send a source distribution and rpm to jeremy later tonight. dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:47:20 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> cvs is up and updated. Let me know if you have success/problems Dave> getting and compiling it. I just did a checkout, ./configure, make, make install, and they all worked, to some degree. I was able

Re: cvs

2000-02-27 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:47:20 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dave> cvs is up and updated. Let me know if you have success/problems > Dave> getting and compiling it. > > I just did a checkout, ./configure, make, make install, and they all > worked, to some d

Some Comments

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
Hello, I'm a longtime Quicken user and a longer-time Linux User. I'm finally fed up of rebooting Windows (or VMWare) to run Quicken, and have taken a look at GnuCash as an alternative. I used the CVS version as of a couple of days ago. First, I'll say that it looks very pretty. I have the fol

Offending QIF file

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
Hello, To follow up my own post, here is a QIF file from B of A with improper dates and which imports as 'Quicken Bank Account': --begin-- !Type:Bank D02/25/2000 T-84.07 N PFRY'S ELECTRONICS ^ D02/25/2000 T100.73 N PUS TREASURY TAX REFUND ^ D02/24/2000 T50.00 N PBKOFAMERICA ATM ^ D02/

Re: cvs

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:11:30 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> and what I find odd is that /home/rob/compiled/share/gnome does not >> exist. I did not make /home/rob/compiled/[bin, doc, html, lib, >> share], so I was under the impression that the apps made their own

Re: Some Comments

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Browning
David A Fenyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I tried to import a file from Bank of America (which supports QIF > download). The transactions were imported partially OK, but the > dates were wrong (all 12/31/1969), and a new bank account 'Quicken > Bank Account' was created. These files Are im

Re: Offending QIF file

2000-02-27 Thread Rob Browning
David A Fenyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > To follow up my own post, here is a QIF file from B of A with > improper dates and which imports as 'Quicken Bank Account': Thanks. Having more sample files is still a big help. Bill'll probably want to look at this with resepct to the

Re: Some Comments

2000-02-27 Thread David A Fenyes
> I'll leave answering this to others who know OFX better, but it was my > impression that it's more for communications than storage. Feel free > to correct me. > You are right. It is a XML-based format for requesting/acknowledging transactions. From what I've read of the spec, it covers ju