hotkey thefts...

1999-12-24 Thread Rob Walker
agree that this is a shortcoming in gtk, but that there would not be a fix for it in 1.2. So we will have to code around it for now. Or not. :-) I see that there is a list in /home/rob/.gnome/accels/GnuCash of all of the menu things, with their hotkeys. so it will be easy enough to iterate over the

Re: *patch*

1999-12-25 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 02:44:05 -0800, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> Here is my holiday patch for you. it compiles and runs. :-) What are we thinking about preferences between runs? rob -- "You know, I used to think i

requirements for date field

1999-12-25 Thread Rob Walker
wn to appear there, but only have the drop down tab shown when that field is highlighted, and have it removed when we leave that field. Am I on the right track? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-25 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 12:34:56 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> here are my thoughts on what should happen with the date field. Rob> I am starting with this document instead of coding, so that I can Rob> make su

Re: hotkey thefts...

1999-12-25 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:19:16 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> I talked to the only group of gtk developers I could find, on Rob> #gimp on irc.gimp.org (#gtk is empty _everywhere_). Rob> They were surprised that t

Re: date range in register.

1999-12-26 Thread Rob Walker
t; scheme which would forbid two windows from modifying the Christopher> same transaction at the same time. why? whatever one was committed last would take precedence, no? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. Backspace or delete over a date separator: If you hit backspace or >delete where the character to be deleted would be the the date >separator, I am not sure what to do. Either do nothing, or delete >the character on the

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:21:47 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: >> >> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 6. Too many characters: If you type in a character which

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Walker
entation that works for a thousand transactions, and Russell> leave anything more as an exercise for the Open Source Russell> reader? I agree with russell. I don't want us to make the most highly scalable thing in the world. I want something which will get us to quit using quicken, and to

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-28 Thread Rob Walker
at is eaasily linas> changed. Long run, this could/ should be a part of a 'user linas> preferences config' file. yes, this sounds great. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transaction Locking

1999-12-31 Thread Rob Walker
if >> you leave an edited transaction, you get a popup telling you so >> with options to commit or cancel. linas> That can work, but if we can do a non-disruptive popup, then linas> that eliminates the need for this. I agree with linas. The popup in quicken isn't a problem for us, but then again, we don't have to move the mouse to hit it. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transaction Locking

1999-12-31 Thread Rob Walker
/mym in vmware, and the UI editor in another one, and they start clicking away. of course, we all know how well I code, so accept this for what it is, mindless rambling. :-) rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Walker
> a) GnuCash-gui.xml Christopher> b) Quicken-gui.xml Christopher> c) MyM-gui.xml Christopher> and load the desired variation in at run time. Christopher> That does, of course, assume that the GUI was Christopher> sufficiently separated from the register code that *all* Christopher&g

Re: date range in register.

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
In any case, I'm not saying this is the right choice, and though I'm kinda pro-scheme, I'm happy with something else if it's a better solution. However, I do think this is worth at least a bit of consideration. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
ut not (yet?) particularly applicable. What I've seen looks more appropriate for fairly simple apps, but probably wouldn't support what we do in GnuCash all that well, and might easily play havoc with the guile side. Feel free to prove me wrong, though. I haven't investiga

Re: Transaction Locking

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
might be expensive. [2] This might be impossible without help from the filesystem/kernel, or a good UPS :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
val ..." shell command (like the one scwm has)? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transaction Locking

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
g about building our data store on top of a set of these. If we're going in this direction, it would be nice to know what their performance characteristics are like so that we'd know how expensive some of the things we'd need to to would be. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Transaction Locking

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
l kinds of daemons, adding system users, and learning a bunch of other admin stuff, I'd be happy to use that as the back end. Then for larger-scale systems the upgrade path to something heavier duty on the back end should be somewhat natural. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80

Re: Your "financial reporting language"

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
ually only anonymous ones. i.e. in (define xxx (lambda () 19)) (define yyy (x y z) (do-something x y z a b c)) I might say both xxx and yyy were bound to thunks, though that's may not be strictly correct. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Callbacks and stuff

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
ly do without. Among other things, I've found that if you build a large project that uses g++, C++, threads, STL, and optimization heavily, you'll see what bloated compilation times really look like... Sorry to wander off topic... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A

Re: equity accounts and timed transactions

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
there really is a "correct" way to do it, I'd be all in favor of doing it that way. I think it might even be enough to just have some good documentation explaining what's going on. We could even (by default) put both column headers up. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Walker
gs and whatnot. Christopher> There is a GTK port to Win32; I don't know its quality. nice to know. that answers a lot of my question. >> (is there a quickfill data type in gtk?) Christopher> There's some "stemming" functions in glib, relating to Christopher> t

Re: Database Backends

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
file-system :>). > Until then, something like Sleepycat DB seems by far most suitable. I knew vaguely that the libc db had gotten better. This must have been what I'd heard. I wonder what (if any) the limitations are in the implementation (probably far beyond anything we'd c

Re: "financial reporting language"

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
n) (report-total linedata grand-total-collector #f 2 "Net Income" 'CreditTotalAmount)) sample-port) [1] Aside from the standard issues about it being a little harder to read code as you add more exceptions to the standard evaluation rules, there's t

Re: "financial reporting language"

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Browning
))) (report-string linedata stuff) (report-total linedata stuff) (output-line linedata)) This is just a little different than yours since here linedata keeps track of the port it was initialized with. Either way... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guile Listener

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Browning
o the command line invocation, but I'd have to think about it. It would probably be easier to just go through all the code and change all the printfs, displays, etc to use explicit ports. Then we can redirect the port by just changing the pointer. How about that? -- Rob Browning <[EMAI

pixmaps?

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Walker
I am looking for the pixmaps which are displayed on the menubar on the first "GnuCash" screen. Can't find them in my source tree. Are they a part of gnome or gtk or something? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pixmaps?

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:40:55 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> I am looking for the pixmaps which are displayed on the menubar Rob> on the first "GnuCash" screen. Can't find them in my source Rob> tree.

Re: pixmaps?

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:46:42 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> I am looking for the pixmaps which are displayed on the menubar Rob> on the first "GnuCash" screen. Can't find them in my source Rob> t

Re: Guile Listener

2000-01-02 Thread Rob Browning
. Whenever you link any strictly GPL'd code into Guile, uses of Guile which are normally permitted become forbidden. This is a rather non-obvious consequence of the licensing terms. So, to make sure things remain clear, please let people choose for themselves whether to link

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Walker
windows 9x and NT). Yes it's a lowest common teri> denominator (no fancy high level features, such as gnome print) teri> but that's the trade-off. Either you code those high-level I just saw that on their supported platforms list, curses. wow. rob -- "Heedless of grammar

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
think we should continue to run with it. MHO -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
e, this doesn't explicitly account for the *BSDs, the HURD, etc, which I do want to accomodate if we can, but I suspect they'll get GNOME soon if they haven't already. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE (was Re: GUI Building)

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
thinking about that. Haven't had enough coffee today I suppose (it's been a long one). Anyway, I wasn't thinking too hard about it since I'm not likely to do *anything* on that front. It does probably mean that anyone distributing our qt version would be violating our license :>

Re: *patch*

2000-01-05 Thread Rob Walker
e-libs package, which you can get Dave> in tar.gz form from the gnome site. but don't change the ones which we have in common with other gnome apps. (open, save, save as, stuff like that) that is one of the things which is supposed to be the same across all gnome apps, to provide for commo

Re: SCM-Problem

2000-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
Nico Ach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tested it but I got the same error message. > Are there any variables which must be set? Try this as root: guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)" -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=

Re: Cursor position when doing new transactions

2000-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
The relevant discussion was about 4 August 1999, and the subject was "Display fix ( Gnome/Gtk version )". I don't have time to see if I can see it in the list archives, but if you can't find it, just let me know and I'll dig up and repost the bits I saved. -- Rob B

Re: Tracking down various functions in the register code

2000-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
rint statements heavily, though I know that's considered stone-age. That's how I learned stuff about the register a while back, that and TAGS, and find and grep :> In this case, is there any way you could run the gdb session on a virtual terminal? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cursor position when doing new transactions

2000-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
otherwise. > > If it isn't documented, it probably should be. There was a good exchange about 6-12 months ago between Heath and Linas (I think) which as I recall covered this material better than anything else I've seen. I'll see if I have it archived... -- Rob Browning <[

Re: Tracking down various functions in the register code

2000-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frankly, I've never really gotten into the habit of using debuggers > because I've spent so much of the time in situations where they won't > work at all (too much time spent working with kernel-level threads, > f

What does adjust balance really do?

2000-01-09 Thread Rob Browning
w do I "undo" whatever it did? I'll go check the source, but if somone just knows off the top of their head, please elaborate. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does adjust balance really do?

2000-01-09 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to insert an adjustment into the register, so I said, "Oh, > I'll just use that convenient 'Adjust Balance' option on the menubar." > When I did, my account balance did change, but nothing that I

Re: gnucash runtime configuration

2000-01-11 Thread Rob Browning
fix=foo install", prefix=foo indicates where to put the files, not where they'll be running from. I'm all in favor of a cleaner approach if you have one, but this one seems to work. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash runtime configuration

2000-01-11 Thread Rob Browning
istinct advantages of being something people might expect, and of perhaps allowing us to get rid of some more auto-generated files. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

And for our next clever trick...

2000-01-12 Thread Rob Browning
want to do it if it was an option that the user could select, and that was completely autodetected enabled/disabled at configure time so that we don't add Yet Another Mandatory Dependency (YAMD). Anyway, seemed interesting to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521

Re: Where can I go to get help?

2000-01-13 Thread Rob Browning
archiving, mail <-> news gateways, and so on. It has all of the features you expect from such a product, plus integrated support for the web (including web based archiving), automated bounce handling and integrated spam prevention. . For more information see http://www.list.org/. --

another bug with cvs+dave's latest

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
date range" which is simply, "show all"? I would like to be able to have all transactions shown, simple as that. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs + dave's latest

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
on would be a , if I were to type b, it would not do a quickfill. I wondered why, and after looking at the debug output, it looks like the ctrl-h is not being registered as a change in location, or something like that. Quickfill does seem to work okay if I use ctrl-d or ctrl-u to edit the line, which

Re: cvs + dave's latest

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
rting all of the variables there. same reports. I would hope that this is a new one, as i have a brand new source gree. will try again with a fresh tree later on today. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs + dave's latest

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
new checkout, new apply of the patch, change of bug report. :-) >>>>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:13:59 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> highlighting problems. Rob> I took from reading the notes with "dave's latest&

quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
drop down list box drop down as soon as you type in an item, highlighting as you go. this has the added bonus of allowing you to use the arrow keys to choose the one you want, kinda. try it to see what the kinda means. ;-) rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

jutterbug question

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
ester them enough, they will add that functionality.) Also, they at least have the notion of "open" and "closed" regarding bugs, which puts them at least a step ahead of jitterbug, in my mind. comments? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jitterbug question

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
argh. make that jitterbug, not jutterbug. also, there is the possiblity of putting a cvs repository or so on sourceforge machines, so that linas' line can take a rest. rob >>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:48:57 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTEC

interesting surfing.

2000-01-24 Thread Rob Walker
/?group_id=1149 especially fun looks the couple of open source erp apps which are coming out. :-) rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nana

2000-01-25 Thread Rob Walker
or easily implemented. Hi all, I would like to nominate Dave Peticolas as gnucash "man of the year" for his proposal to stop using nana. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question about column resizing

2000-01-27 Thread Rob Walker
In the stock register, when fooling around with some numbers, I can resize every window except the balance window. The balance window will not resize. This means you can't show anything more than 9,999,999.00 dollars. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empt

decimal places in stock register?

2000-01-27 Thread Rob Walker
I was wondering why we put the sold and bought numbers to be four decimal places. Why not the price? Often times my daily close is .875 or .3125, or something with more than two decimal places. This gets truncated in the stock register. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe

Re: Reports...

2000-01-19 Thread Rob Browning
ate return value, then you can just wrap the call in false-if-exception and check for a false return value. If you know what kind of exception you're worried about, you can use "catch". guile-ref has some info about all this. This is definitely something that needs fixing soon

register, GUI stuff

2000-01-28 Thread Rob Walker
ave gotten used to is double clicking on the column header separator bar, and the column resizes to the minimum width necessary to display all data. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

window positions, sizes.

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
Were we adding automatic option saving for the different windows? I find myself constantly resizing windows, as well as changing the options to "show first", and "show last". rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
; Personal Care: Other; Personal Care: Shampoo, Soap; and the category Pets. I guess almost all of the completions will happen on the :. Maybe using the separator character to complete would be wisest. heh now i want to choose the TAB character to be my separator. :-) rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:14:52 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> Aha! I found one!!! Rob> Okay, since quickfilling *did* work properly, and so did Rob> highlighting, I suppose I _could_ be crying wolf here, but Rob

Re: quickfill in the "Transfer From" field

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
uld only require Dave> modifying the quickfill cell a bit to configure how it sorts the Dave> strings. phew! /me wipes forehead clean. ;-) rob -- And sanity is really just a one trick pony, anyway. I mean, all you get is one trick, RATIONAL THINKING! But when you're good and cr

good news about sourceforge.

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
r web site completely on theirs. But I suppose we could use it for something. The setup on there will commence immediately, beginning with rsync schedules with jcollins to the website, setting up of mailing lists and updating the bug trackers. If anyone has any questions, please bring them up right away. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch*

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
would act as if you had hit the +- indicator over on the left hand side. Also, those accounts would not be actual account names in the quickfill "account list". rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

thoughts from a session with gnucash.

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
backs to the GUI?) 3. there was something else, but I can't remember what it was now. I hope to remember it soon, and get it out to the list. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thoughts from a session with gnucash.

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:50:30 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> 3. there was something else, but I can't remember what it was now. I Rob> hope to remember it soon, and get it out to the list. 3. quickfill

Re: thoughts from a session with gnucash.

2000-01-30 Thread Rob Walker
have updated the debit or credit fields as needed with the >> entries from the current quickfill, I am not sure. the second way >> saves you a keystroke, as many people could hit three keys to enter >> their rent every month. "ev|_il landlord goob_ _650.00_" and a RET &

Re: patch trouble

2000-01-31 Thread Rob Walker
cash.diff.gz" line this complaint goes David> away but is replaced by "no end line". Removing the spaces David> before "end" doesn't help. What now? once I found uudeview, uudecode left my repertoire for good. I have been saving the emails intact, and runn

patch problems, maybe a final fix.

2000-01-31 Thread Rob Walker
, and check it out. the notes that dave puts in the patch emails are at the bottom of the page. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch*

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
oo install This decouples the --prefix=bar argument (i.e. the eventuall install location) from the destination where you want make to put all the files. For those who haven't been following, this is important for people trying to package GnuCash for Debian and other distributions (hi Tyson). -- R

Re: Dumb Scheme question

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
that you might want to bind to a variable so you can call it later. That's why this works: ((if should-add? + -) 5 6) Hope this helps. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch*

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
t. I'll think about this a little more. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make problems

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
Error 2 > make: *** [motif] Error 2 > > > Alas, I do not know enough about guile to figure out what's wrong > here. Can anybody help? Did you ever get this fixed? If not, are you sure you have the right version of slib installed properly? I believe the newer CVS vers

Re: auto-completion issue

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, your not missing something, that's really how it works right now > :) > > This shouldn't be too hard to fix, though I haven't looked at that > code much. Rob B recently extended the quickfill stuff, so maybe

Re: help please.

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
we copy a suitable test (if there's an easy guile-level one) to bootstrap (or similar)? If you can do this trivially, let me know, otherwise, I'm going to be diving in to things again soon, and I'll be happy to figure it out. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QIF-Import: Funds imported wrong..

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
ounterexample? In the long run, we may just need to have a selector in the import dialog box that lets you select the format when you know it. Something like: QIF Format type: ( ) US ( ) German (*) Auto Detect -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
config.auto bits. This allows a place to save things that the user changes in the gui preferences code. I suspect that we'll need to enhance/revise this stuff, but this is where we are now (or were recently?). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 --

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
ler for beginnners. I don't think I'd like this as the default. It's definitely not what most existing unix users would expect, though we could add an option that could be set on a per-user or system-wide basis. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
tory that looks like a mail spool happens to pop up later (perhaps because some other program's installation process does the "wrong thing"(TM)), you shouldn't just silently change behaviors and start using the new directory. Among other things, this could be a security hole.

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
t how to fix this. Doesn't this do what you want? ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc Actually, I thought that right now it picked /etc by default, and you had to use my --opt-style-install argument to configure to get it to put everything in one sub-tree. -- Rob Browning &

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Browning
nts for some purposes. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
e modified should store that data in /usr/share (or /usr/local/share, if installed locally). It is recommended that a subdirectory be used in /usr/share for this purpose. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reports...

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
slightly strange (though still free) license. Looking at things now, it's not clear what the best way to proceed is. I think one of the first orders of business is to take a hard look at what can be done with the canvas and gnome-print before expending a lot of effort. -- Rob Browning <[EM

Re: configure/cache cleanup

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
configuration is rather confusing. Not sure how hard this would be. g-wrap is a completely independent project, so it's got it's own configuration system. Do we know that even if we could get it to just look at the top-level config.cache, it'd be getting the information it expects? --

Re: off-topic: contact manager?

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
thors have any interest in accepting mods for that sort of thing. FWIW -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configure/cache cleanup

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
d version that I've been using as part of my research that I'll fold in. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch*

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Walker
e>Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a way to change Dave> the focus row of the list. This means that using the arrow keys Dave> to pick an account "close" to the auto-completed account is Dave> awkward. If you know a way to do this, please let me know. sigh. ah

Re: gnucash configuration

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Browning
doubt it, and unless there's a *really* compelling reason, this would just rub me the wrong way. When the user can always just download, build, and install the app in their home directory, it seems pretty silly to try to push them around like that. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: *patch*

2000-02-04 Thread Rob Walker
what is an action list? Dave> The action list is seen in double line mode (and multi-line, Dave> etc.). It has choices like ATM, Check, Deposit, etc. ahh, so _that_'s where that is. I was thinking that the "num" field would allow numbers, or ATM or DEP in it. Numb

latest patch.

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
rob@biffhero-laptop:~/src/cvs/gnucash$ applypatch ../gnucash.diff Verify error: size of src/scm/parseqif.scm should be 6324, but is 6322. Apparently this is not the expected source directory, aborting. Use "--force" to override this. rob@biffhero-laptop:~/src/cvs/gnucash$ I got this

Re: *patch*

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
text export as incomplete and, thus, dangerous to Dave> use. Maybe we should just remove them for the release, unless Dave> someone wants to complete them. "for the release" ??? is there good news coming? with the current rate of progress, soon the only work left to do will be wr

Re: latest patch.

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
ckout if needed. Dave> I think this is related to the change I made to fix the other Dave> problem with the 'newline at end of file' error someone else was Dave> getting. You should be able to force the patch without problems. It autoconf'd, ./configure'd, ma

request for enhancements to stock register.

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
1. be able to resize the balance column. this affects the checking register as well. 2. display commas in the bought, sold, total shares columns, as in the total value columns. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question on use

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
dn't really mean a whole lot. does that make sense? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new functionality for splits.

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
saction which we are entering. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on use

2000-02-05 Thread Rob Walker
he envelope and pay the landlord. So our expense accounts will fluctuate between x and 0 in the properly planned categories, and have been known to get very large or very small in the poorly planned categories. Even if our model doesn't map to gnucash 100%, if we can keep our "proper expenses go from 0 to x and back again" model, we will be able to make it. thx, rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *patch*

2000-02-06 Thread Rob Walker
ting the xfer from field as you move the arrow button up and down. after all, if you hit enter, that is what gets saved in the xfer from field. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

decimal places.

2000-02-06 Thread Rob Walker
to automatic, then the values would only display the significant digits. Closing prices wouldn't be 218., 219.1250, 190.5000, but they would be 218, 219.125, 190.5. I think that this would be cool, but not in the balance column, where forcing it to two decimal places could be d

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