Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Jun 15, 2021, at 5:19 PM, flywire wrote: > > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-dev-Dev-s-features-of-choice-tp4726710p4726713.html > >> "you can use Microsoft Access or Open/LibreOffice Base with SQLite3 via an >> ODBC driver" My, you're insistent on taking things out of context.

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-15 Thread flywire
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-dev-Dev-s-features-of-choice-tp4726710p4726713.html > "you can use Microsoft Access or Open/LibreOffice Base with SQLite3 via an > ODBC driver" -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Jun 15, 2021, at 4:43 PM, flywire wrote: > >> What "standard" are you referring to? > >> GnuCash stores information at the highest level in files. A file can be >> stored on your computer either as a single XML file (in all versions of >> GnuCash), or in a SQL database (in GnuCash versio

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-15 Thread flywire
> What "standard" are you referring to? > GnuCash stores information at the highest level in files. A file can be > stored on your computer either as a single XML file (in all versions of > GnuCash), or in a SQL database (in GnuCash version 2.4 and higher). The sort order of the application a use

Re: [GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

2021-06-15 Thread John Ralls
What "standard" are you referring to? If you're arguing for the simplest possible that would be strcmp() that numerically compares each corresponding byte in two arrays of bytes. That works only for English encoded in ASCII. Doesn't work at all well for German, never mind Chinese. Glib provides

Re: [GNC] Incorrect Trial Balance Amounts

2021-06-15 Thread John Ralls
David, That would suppose that there's more documentation for the Trial Balance Report than the single sentence in https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/rpt_standardrpts.html#rpt_grp_incexp. Perhaps you'd like to write some? Regards, John Ralls > On Jun 15, 2021, at 12:12 AM, David

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Got me. The only potential difference is the version and OS. Don’t know whether anyone else has had a similar experience... Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2021, at 9:35 AM, Bruce Irving wrote: > >  > Hi, Victor. > I use the same format as you. > > I still can't understand why I create 8 t

Re: [GNC] Check printing

2021-06-15 Thread Bruce Irving
Hi, Victor. I use the same format as you. I still can't understand why I create 8 transactions in the Checking account, everything is the same except the number and payee. Only one of those checks would print. For the rest of them, it goes through the procedure on screen but when I click the fin

Re: [GNC] Should the gnc-fq-* helper scripts be invoked as commands, or as an arg to perl?

2021-06-15 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 15.06.21 um 09:15 schrieb Jim DeLaHunt: > > I fear that I did a terrible job of explaining what change I propose to the > Online quotes wiki page. The result looks ways better than I had feared after the first announcement. ;-) Nice to have more wiki editors! > I agree. But I now underst

Re: [GNC] Should the gnc-fq-* helper scripts be invoked as commands, or as an arg to perl?

2021-06-15 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
On 2021-06-14 11:58, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hello Jim, I fear this changes would go in the wrong direction. It would hide the important "normal" stuff behind a bunch of noise. Instead of adding aphavantage and probably other keys to each command, explain for your OSes, how to add them to

Re: [GNC] Incorrect Trial Balance Amounts

2021-06-15 Thread David Carlson
It would be nice if that method were described accurately in the documentation, because going by the name it sounds like something completely different and wrong if it is using incorrectly estimated prices instead of actual transaction prices. I would make the same mistake if I were doing what vo