Precision

2000-06-02 Thread linas
Forwarding to the mailing list ... It's been rumoured that Joshua said: > > hello, > > I am not a developer so I could not go in and fix this, but maybe some > one on the development team could. > I do a lot of trading in penny stock, but GNUcash rounds to two point > precision when I enter .

Re: GnuCash Wish List

2000-06-02 Thread linas
FYI, It's been rumoured that Steven Sforza said: > [...] > Among the things I'd love to see are: > > 1) A warning if you are running it as root, or even better if it is unsuccessful in >saving your file (this comes from one day accidentally putting in about an hour of >figures, hitting save a

cvs 2000-06-02

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been updated. New Stuff: + Rob Browning's automake patch. This patch makes gnucash use automake for its build system. Among other things, this should make gnucash much more portable. Also, there is now a 'make uninstall' target. WARNING: this patch seems to break the gnc-pr

Is gnucash.org down?

2000-06-02 Thread Allan Peak
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Re: importing one-ended transfers

2000-06-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I now see the following possibility: > > One transaction, that > debits the chequing account by $200, memo groceries > debits the chequing account $10, memo cash > debits the chequing account $90, memo allowances > credits the

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > tboldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would have to agree - having the ability to transfer a transaction from > > one account to another using a field in the transaction entry is going to > > be very confusing. You are mixing entry fields for the trans

speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm slowly gearing up to use GnuCash on live data, and am attempting to start parallel operation with Quicken before cutting over comletely. As a result I am continuing to find problems, some of which are relatively easy to fix. But some, I suspect are not. Is there a speed problem, or am I doin

cvs 2000-06-02

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been updated. New Stuff: + Dennis Bjorklund's sv.po update + Paul Fenwick's Quote.pm update + Jan-Uwe Finck's updated de.po dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread tboldt
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > tboldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would have to agree - having the ability to transfer a transaction from > > > one account to another using a field in the transaction entry is going to > > > be very confusing. You

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, tboldt wrote: > Under this view I "transfer" funds and "move" transactions. For > example, I "transferred funds" from account A to account B using the > register window for account A. Later, I decide that account was the wrong > source of the funds and account C should be the

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, tboldt wrote: > > Under this view I "transfer" funds and "move" transactions. For > > example, I "transferred funds" from account A to account B using the > > register window for account A. Later, I decide that account was the wrong > > source of the funds and account C shou

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Bill Gribble
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a speed problem, or am I doing something wrong.? For large numbers of transactions, the current register code doesn't exactly set speed records. I only have 2000 or so transactions in my largest accounts, and the speed could be better, even tho

check_printing_bug

2000-06-02 Thread David Bobroff
Hello all, Check printing appeared to be working finally. It had not been working for me and then suddenly it was working. I'm not actually using it but I was trying it out. Now, however, when I select a transation and do 'print check...' I get the dialog box with all of the options for date f

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread tboldt
Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, tboldt wrote: > > Under this view I "transfer" funds and "move" transactions. For > > example, I "transferred funds" from account A to account B using the > > register window for account A. Later, I decide that account was the wrong > > source of

Re: GnuCash Wish List

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > > 1) A warning if you are running it as root, or even better if it is unsucce > ssful in saving your file (this comes from one day accidentally putting in ab > out an hour of figures, hitting save and going back the next day to find that > it hadn't actually saved anything because the time

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a speed problem, or am I doing something wrong.? > > For large numbers of transactions, the current register code doesn't > exactly set speed records. I only have 2000 or so transactions in my > largest accounts, and the speed could be bett

Re: check_printing_bug

2000-06-02 Thread Bill Gribble
David Bobroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check printing appeared to be working finally. It had not been working for > me and then suddenly it was working. The check printing code that's in CVS right now is outdated, and while I haven't seen symptoms like you describe, I don't doubt that it'

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-06-02 Thread Bill Gribble
tboldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you are probably right in your assesment of double > entry/single entry - however - and there is an however, How many > non-professionals do you know that think in terms of double entry > accounting?? This is a straw man. There are lots of people usin

Re: g-wrapping enums (was Re: Reporting subsystem and other stuff)

2000-06-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My suggestions would be to have something like g-scan which can scan > > a header file, locate marked enumerations, and generate the > > necessary C and Scheme code to automate the type conversion, as well > > as

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
> > Another topic: what sorts of duplicate transactions are you finding > after QIF import? IIRC you have mentioned two classes of problem: one > is the Opening Balance in non-first-position and one is Quicken > collapsing two splits into one. Are there other types of problem > transactions you

Re: Data type problems & solutions

2000-06-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 13:14:39 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have been doing some investigation to figure out why gnucash is working on > my i386 but getting confused on the alpha. > > I have come up with a few findings. I guess I may be the fir

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
> > > > I think the bottleneck is in the Gnome Canvas, which is the basis of > > the register display. Dave P would know more about that. > > I suspect this is where it's happening, but we will need to do some > profiling to be sure. Is each entry field in the register a separate Gnome widget?

Re: importing one-ended transfers

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I now see the following possibility: > > > > One transaction, that > > debits the chequing account by $200, memo groceries > > debits the chequing account $10, memo cash > > debits the chequing account $90, memo allowances > > cred

Re: importing one-ended transfers

2000-06-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I now see the following possibility: > > > > > > One transaction, that > > > debits the chequing account by $200, memo groceries > > > debits the chequing account $10, memo cash > > > debits the c

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Rob Walker
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:37:30 -0400 (EDT), Hendrik Boom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hendrik> By the way, is there a maximum allowable size to the memo Hendrik> field, cheque number field, etc? (I don't care if there are Hendrik> current limits on how much is displayed (these are at worst

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > > > > I think the bottleneck is in the Gnome Canvas, which is the basis of > > > the register display. Dave P would know more about that. > > > > I suspect this is where it's happening, but we will need to do some > > profiling to be sure. > > Is each entry field in the register a separa