Re: Budgeting in Gnucash

2000-12-02 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I have got lost in all this. There will be *future* transactions in each of the accounts that a budget is set for? Phill ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: refreshing the GUI

2000-11-30 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Does the redraw update just a transaction or is the widget an account? If the gui atom is an account and the changed data has been stored in the `account file' then the CM only has to have one call-back for the account no matter how many changes have been make to the transactions in the account?

Re: Locking (was Re: refreshing the GUI)

2000-12-01 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Derek Atkins wrote: > Presumably the DB can serialize (lock) requests, > so you don't get intersperced data. But you need more than that. > In this particular case, User1 got to the DB first, so presumably > user2 would receive a callback about the change to obj1. However, > User2 already tried

Re: refreshing the GUI

2000-11-30 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Dave Peticolas wrote: > Derek Atkins writes: > > > Yes, your subsequent mail did explain that successfully, but you may > > have a locking problem in the case of multiple GUIs touching the same > > data. > > Probably, but that's just not a problem I'm trying to solve right now. > You're welcome t

Re: Locking (was Re: refreshing the GUI)

2000-12-01 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Derek Atkins wrote: > Phillip J Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Would something like having user A have the only permissions to > > change things if they opened the account first be a usefull first > > pass. Or is that too simple? > > How does

Re: Need help matching up these exchanges with timezones.

2000-12-01 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Rob Browning wrote: > To do that, I need to know which timezone each of > these exchanges reports its dates with respect to. Any help would be > appreciated. > >australia Australan Stock Exchange The web page for the Australian Stock Exhange is http://www.asx.com.au/ Tha

Re: Degrees of Freedom in One-Way Anova by Rows

2000-12-10 Thread Phillip J Shelton
This week I will start re-organising the gnumeric functions into better function class groupings. Is there anyone who I will need to talk to about with respect to either code updates they have or the financial library? Phill Jason Stokes wrote: > Jody Goldberg wrote: > > > There may be more su

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Any way to do what is needed without triggers? Phill Steve Greenland wrote: > On 11-Dec-00, 00:18 (CST), Phillip Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that's doubtless one of the design criteria. One, by the way, > > > that effectively rules out MySQL, as it doesn't do triggers... > >

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Sorry to be dense. Isn't there some way to have the DB store the current balance with each record? That way the current balence would just be the current balence from the last record. Or is that more expensive than I realise? Phill "Al B. Snell" wrote: > That was one of three proposals :-)

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Any other auditing considerations? Phill Christopher Browne wrote: > Also in there is the auditing consideration of "If the period is closed, > and people can't post there, then the past periods of data become `stable.'" > Which is implementable by storing information on what periods of time ar

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Woud also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? Bill Gribble wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:01:01AM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > > What is to be the nature of this "financial library"? > > > > Should there not be some specs of what it is to provide as services? >

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-12 Thread Phillip J Shelton
David Merrill wrote: > Question: What if you really *need* to go back and correct data in the > prior year? If the change is to the money amount then the book I own says that you make a transaction dated at the time you find the error that undoes the wrong data and then enter another transaction

Re: Schema

2000-12-12 Thread Phillip J Shelton
David Merrill wrote: > I'm beginning to work on the database schema for an eventual SQL back > end. I am keeping my notes in an ASCII file, which will always be > available at http://www.lupercalia.net/schema.txt some comments and suggestions. > SPLIT > - > account_guidc

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-12 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Derek Atkins wrote: > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > aisb, I consider the issue of closing the books and making all > > transactions prior to that immutable to be completely orthogonal to how > > the running total is determined. I am proposing a solution to the > > maintenance of

Re: DB design document

2000-12-14 Thread Phillip J Shelton
David Merrill wrote: > > > > security_scu & currency_scu: 'scu' is Smallest Convertable (I think) > > > > Unit, the denominator used for amounts in security/currency. > > > > Commodities have default scu's, but accounts can override them. > > > > For example, you might have stock in two dif

accrint (Financial library)

2001-01-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
This is the description of the function accrint FUNCTION=ACCRINT SYNTAX=ACCRINT(issue,first_interest,settlement,rate,par,frequency,basis) DESCRIPTION    ACCRINT calculates the accrued interest for a security that pays periodic interest.  The  rate is the annual rate of the security and par is the

financial library

2001-01-22 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I am going to start to put date and financial functions from gnumeric into a non-app. specific form and file. The specification of each function will be posted as I learn what it is each has to do. I will start with interst calculations. Phill. ___

AccrInt

2001-01-23 Thread Phillip J Shelton
This is the definition of accrued  interest from a web glossary. accrued interest    Interest that is due on a bond or other fixed income security since the last interest payment was made. This often occurs for bonds purchased   on the secondary market, since bonds usually pay interest e

Re: AccrInt

2001-01-24 Thread Phillip J Shelton
  In using the 30/360 basis for municipal securities I believe Excel miscalculates when date periods span months with 31 days. Phillip J Shelton wrote: > > This is the definition of accrued  interest from a web glossary. > > > accrued interest > >   Interest that is due

Re: AccrInt

2001-01-26 Thread Phillip J Shelton
"John S. Dey" wrote: > Phillip: I went back and read the documentation for the MS Excel's > ACCRINT function. They refer to a concept of quasi-coupon periods > occurring between "issue" and "settlement". Oh. I see I will have to find a copy of Excel that has these functions with it. > Furthe

financial library.

2001-01-28 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I found this while looking for finanical equations on the web. I have not had much luck with the equations yet. The api should match this one . http://www.idexsoft.com/index.html ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.co

Re: financial library.

2001-01-29 Thread Phillip J Shelton
I have not looked at those. I was not aware that there was equations to be found here. Terry Boldt wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > I found this while looking for finanical equations on the web. I have > > not had much luck with the equations yet. > > > > The api should match this o

Re: scheduled transactions

2001-02-02 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Joshua Sled wrote: > Yeah. Seems like the scheduled transaction stuff takes on all the > time-mgmt stuff from the budgeting concepts... which means it needs a > good chunk of work more to be suitable for both. > > ...jsled Bill, How can/should this time-mgmt stuff be thought of against the fin

Re: gnucash

2001-02-08 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Gregory Novak wrote: > > Actually, there's [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- its in the table of contents bar on the > > left. -- 'mailing lists' > > Fair enough, but I balk at distrubing an untold number of people on a > mailing list for a rather banal question. Isn't that what the

Re: Experimental RPC Backend

2001-03-19 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Derek Atkins wrote: > For those of you not on gnucash-patches, I sent the RPC Backend > patches there a few minutes ago. I can also send out the patch via > email to anyone who might want to play with it before it actually > makes it into the repository. > > Enjoy! I have enjoyed watching you d

Re: new gnucash website

2001-03-24 Thread Phillip J Shelton
The font size on the news page is way too small on my screen. Can I second the comment about letting my brouser pick the font size? Linas Vepstas wrote: > Am getting close to being done with installing the new gnucash.org > website from Jeremy Collins. There are still a few little blebs > tha

Re: 1.{56} dependency list

2001-05-28 Thread Phillip J Shelton
For what it is worth, you have a problem with your Doc Book setup. In that guppi.sgml still uses DocBook 3.1 and you either do not have DocBook set up at all, or you no longer have version 3.1 on your machine. The second problem with the lack of a Guppi.Lang file may go away if you first `rm -rf

Re: sample announcement & press release

2001-06-10 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Christian Stimming wrote: > ... (the encouragement to upgrade). This will mean an upgrade to gnome 1.4 for me and as, for me, the upgrade to gnucash1.4.12 still has my machine in maintaince mode I am not looking foware to upgrading gnome. ___ gnucash-

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Rob Walker wrote: > cbbrowne> Both options provide a nice big "blech!" > > yes, it sucks, but the users are then able to run gnucash. It may be > 75 to 100 Megs of sucks, but it seems like gnucash needs that many > megs of libraries and whatnot. May I make a comment with my tongue stuck so fir

Re: Dependency hell redux

2001-06-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
ven't made should more probably be made at Gnome not Gnucash. Phillip J Shelton wrote: > Rob Walker wrote: > > > cbbrowne> Both options provide a nice big "blech!" > > > > yes, it sucks, but the users are then able to run gnucash. It may be > > 75

QIF inports

2000-04-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Hi, I am new to this list so forgive me if I ask old questions. I am in Australia and want to use AUD as my default currency. That part is the easy bit. The question I have is; When I import from a different package using QIF Gnucash imports the file with the currency USD in spite of the fact t

Re: QIF inports

2000-04-11 Thread Phillip J Shelton
in 1.3.2, if you try to change the currency type of an account that has links to other files you can no longer do any transfers to that account. In fact Gnucash 1.3.2 crashes if you try. Bill Gribble wrote: > Phillip J Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I import from a

Re: Amount display bug: 0.000000000

2000-05-02 Thread Phillip J Shelton
> Also, one thing we could do that would have solved Graham's > problem is set a default locale if none has been set, say > 'en_US'. Wouldn't it be wise then, to give the user some options for a default locale? Phill -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-24 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Not really up on what is available my self so my comment is `Are there any engines out there that already do this type of math? And would it be safe to say you are looking at some kind of integer math? Phill Bill Gribble wrote: > 3. gnc_numeric : representing exact numbers > --

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Hello, I have not had any experience in using any of the major non-free money software, and have only used one small shareware to mimic my bank statements. So the following is probably trivial but please bear with me, I would like some clarification. I have been watching the to-ing and throw-ing

Re: Backup feature?

2000-08-03 Thread Phillip J Shelton
"Peter C. Norton" wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:54:15PM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > #ifdef OFFTOPIC > > > > One thing that I'd really like is a proper backup system designed for > > use with CD-R(W), which supports a variety of backup strategies > > (including incremental and dif