Re: New user

2017-09-01 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
John,  Peter,  Whatever the reason for Morris to want this (I, for example occasionally want to see all the payments to/from one payee), the fact remains that GnuCash already offers this functionality, although it is buried in View->Sort by (our whatever that menu option is). So, Morris is

Re: New user

2017-09-01 Thread prl
In addition to John Ralls' comments, what do you want to achieve by doing a sort on the description? Would it be better achieved by doing a search on the register (which can be case-insensitive), or by looking at the register that contains the other split in the transactions of interest

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: Good luck. With webkitgtk you're probably busy for a couple of hours... Geert, Sigh. Yes. It's a huge library. On the laptop with the Atom processor it took about 24 hours to build; took about 7 hours on this dual-core AMD II processor. There's

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 19:25:37 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: > > I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages > > for > > icu installed ? > > Geert, > >Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages for icu installed ? Geert, Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each library package. Oh, wait! The 2.6 branch of gnucash is not even explicitly

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Sure. In a couple of minutes. Had to play with the number of lines in each of three separate files to get the gzipped size < 3600 bytes. Concatenate the three parts in sequence to get the full file. Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 18:42:50 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: > > What do you mean with "hardcoded" ? Gnucash doesn't hardcode it as far as > > I > > know. Is it the slackware build script that does ? If so that one should > > be > > fixed. > > Geert, >

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 1, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: > >> worked for me too try the direct link? >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html=GnuCash > > Maf., > > That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Do you still have the older version of GnuCash installed? If so you'll need to remove it. John, No. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: What do you mean with "hardcoded" ? Gnucash doesn't hardcode it as far as I know. Is it the slackware build script that does ? If so that one should be fixed. Geert, I saw that in 2.6.16 and assumed it represented the library version on the system

using custom text to effect class reports

2017-09-01 Thread George Riner
I'm using the trick of inserting a custom piece of text into transactions so that I can then select/sort for that text in report generation. This is to get a quicken-style 'class report'. I then put that custom bit of text into the "Description contains:" field of the 'Sorting' tab on the

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 18:31:56 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: > > worked for me too try the direct link? > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html=GnuCash > > Maf., > >That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I needed

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: What URL is showing the error? Derek, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla What is the exact error message? Unable to connect. Regards, Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: worked for me too try the direct link? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html=GnuCash Maf., That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I needed to create one for gnome's version. I wrote a detailed description and

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Fri, September 1, 2017 11:33 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: > >> It worked for me just now. > > John, > >Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and > chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot >

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Maf. King
On Friday, 1 September 2017 16:33:02 BST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: > > It worked for me just now. > > John, > >Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and > chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot >

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: It worked for me just now. John, Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot access the gnucash wiki bug reports page. I can attach the small file to

Re: New user

2017-09-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:54 AM, morris hindle wrote: > > Please direct me to the proper place to ask these questions: > > 1) When I do a sort (for example) on Description, it is apparently case > sensitive. No one does case sensitive search or sort anymore. How do I

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 1, 2017, at 6:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>> Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. >> >> Will do. > > Clicking the 'bug reports' link on the left side of the gnucash.org home

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. Clicking the 'bug reports' link on the left side of the gnucash.org home page produces a '404 page not found' error. Will try again later. Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: Guild is a guile script file that compiles scheme files into byte code. John, Thanks for that lesson. Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. But first, have you consulted the Slackware lists/fora to

Re: Could not obtain the lock

2017-09-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 1 Sep 2017 12:51:34 +0200 "Alain Dormoy" wrote: > > Hi! > > More often than not, when I launch GnuCash, I get the message: > > Gnucash could not obtain the lock for file:\...\filename.gnucash > > I click "Open anyway" and it works normally. So I can't say I really

Re: bad and corrupt data

2017-09-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 September 2017 at 12:09, Sandro Grech wrote: > 1) Yes on purpose > 2) Yes, MySQL is installed and is accessible from other software > 3) tried both for no avail > 4) Yes - used Workbench to access other data > > What worries me is that, as another attempt, i

Re: Could not obtain the lock

2017-09-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 September 2017 at 11:51, Alain Dormoy wrote: > Hi! > > More often than not, when I launch GnuCash, I get the message: > > Gnucash could not obtain the lock for file:\...\filename.gnucash > > I click "Open anyway" and it works normally. So I can't say I really care but >

Could not obtain the lock

2017-09-01 Thread Alain Dormoy
Hi! More often than not, when I launch GnuCash, I get the message: Gnucash could not obtain the lock for file:\...\filename.gnucash I click "Open anyway" and it works normally. So I can't say I really care but it's a bit puzzling. Anyone has an explanation and can I do something to

Re: bad and corrupt data

2017-09-01 Thread Colin Law
On 31 August 2017 at 17:08, Sandro Grech wrote: > Dear All, > I’ve been trying to save data on server. But the below error is cropping up. > I am positive that privileges are correctly set. 1. Are you saving to a mysql database on purpose? 2. If so, have you got a mysql

bad and corrupt data

2017-09-01 Thread Sandro Grech
Dear All, I’ve been trying to save data on server. But the below error is cropping up. I am positive that privileges are correctly set. Can someone please help. Thank you. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ___ gnucash-user mailing list

New user

2017-09-01 Thread morris hindle
Please direct me to the proper place to ask these questions: 1) When I do a sort (for example) on Description, it is apparently case sensitive. No one does case sensitive search or sort anymore. How do I set the sort to be case (and diacritic) insensitive? 2) Pretty much all spreadsheet-like