guile docs for gnucash
Is there any documentation of the guile modules? I have been going nuts trying to figure out some of variables, where they are originally defined, etc.. To add some business preferences such as company-phone, company-fax, etc. to be used in printing invoices, etc.. I have found 2 files so far, business-prefs.scm, business-utils.scm It seems that the variables are first defined in business-utils.scm, and exported from there (no errors generated from there). The business-prefs.scm file is used to feed the preferences dialog. Opening the Preferences dialog crashes gnucash complaining about an unbound variable. I have grepped thru everything but cannot seem to find out any other clues as to how to proceed. -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Database abstraction layer?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the info Derek. I'm really glad you share my enthusiasm for using SQLite :) How likely is that to happen? In what timeframe? It'll happen eventually, but I have no idea when, exactly. Do you have Matthew's email address, or could you send it to my email address so I can contact him? I'd love to have this feature and help maintain it with each release. Check the archives. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: guile docs for gnucash
Do you properly (export) your variable? What is the error you see? -derek Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any documentation of the guile modules? I have been going nuts trying to figure out some of variables, where they are originally defined, etc.. To add some business preferences such as company-phone, company-fax, etc. to be used in printing invoices, etc.. I have found 2 files so far, business-prefs.scm, business-utils.scm It seems that the variables are first defined in business-utils.scm, and exported from there (no errors generated from there). The business-prefs.scm file is used to feed the preferences dialog. Opening the Preferences dialog crashes gnucash complaining about an unbound variable. I have grepped thru everything but cannot seem to find out any other clues as to how to proceed. -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: guile docs for gnucash
On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 12:23 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Do you properly (export) your variable? What is the error you see? -derek gnucash: [D] Running functions on hook ui-post-startup-hook #procedure business-ui-started () Backtrace: In unknown file: ?: 0* [#procedure #f ()] In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/main-window.scm: 205: 1* (let* (# #) (letrec # #)) In unknown file: ?: 2 (letrec ((changed_cb #)) (gnc:kvp-option-dialog gnc:id-book slots ...) ) ... ?: 3 [gnc:kvp-option-dialog # # Book Options ...] In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnome-utils.scm: 26: 4 (let* (# # #) (define # # #) (define # # #) ...) 26: 5* [gnc:make-kvp-options #gw:wcp gnc:id-type 0xb76a008a] In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/kvp-option-registry.scm: 54: 6 (let ((gen-list #) (options #)) (map (lambda # #) gen-list) options) 56: 7* [map #procedure #f (generator) (#procedure book-options-generator # )] In unknown file: ?: 8 (if (null? rest) (map1 f list1) ...) ... ?: 9 (let ((ret (list #))) (letrec ((lp #)) (lp (cdr ls) ret))) ?: 10* [list ... ?: 11* [#procedure #f # #procedure book-options-generator #] In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/kvp-option-registry.scm: 58: 12 [book-options-generator #procedure dispatch (key)] In unknown file: ?: 13 (letrec (#) (reg-option #) (reg-option #) ...) In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm: 106: 14* [reg-option ... 107: 15* [gnc:make-string-option Business ... /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm:107:4: While evaluating arguments to gnc:make-string-option in expression (gnc:make-string-option gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-phone* ...): /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm:107:4: Unbound variable: gnc:*company-phone* bash-2.05b$ from business-utils.scm: (define gnc:*business-label* (N_ Business)) (define gnc:*company-name* (N_ Company Name)) (define gnc:*company-addy* (N_ Company Address)) (define gnc:*company-phone* (N_ Company Phone Number)) (define gnc:*company-fax* (N_ Company Fax Number)) (define gnc:*company-url* (N_ Company Website URL)) (define gnc:*company-email* (N_ Company Email Address)) (define gnc:*company-contact* (N_ Company Contact Person)) (export gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-name* gnc:*company-addy*) (export gnc:*company-phone* gnc:*company-fax* gnc:*company-url*) (export gnc:*company-email* gnc:*company-contact*) From business-prefs.scm: (reg-option (gnc:make-text-option gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-addy* b (N_ The address of your business) )) (reg-option (gnc:make-string-option gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-phone* p (N_ The Phone Number of your business) )) [/snip] etc,etc. I just copy and pasted an existing, then edited each addition. Once I get this working I'll work on the report side. Also Is there a way to make the Company Name input field, etc wider? Our company name has to scroll thru using the cursor to see or edit what does not show. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any documentation of the guile modules? I have been going nuts trying to figure out some of variables, where they are originally defined, etc.. To add some business preferences such as company-phone, company-fax, etc. to be used in printing invoices, etc.. I have found 2 files so far, business-prefs.scm, business-utils.scm It seems that the variables are first defined in business-utils.scm, and exported from there (no errors generated from there). The business-prefs.scm file is used to feed the preferences dialog. Opening the Preferences dialog crashes gnucash complaining about an unbound variable. I have grepped thru everything but cannot seem to find out any other clues as to how to proceed. -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: guile docs for gnucash
Quoting Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 12:23 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Do you properly (export) your variable? What is the error you see? [snip] 107: 15* [gnc:make-string-option Business ... /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm:107:4: While evaluating arguments to gnc:make-string-option in expression (gnc:make-string-option gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-phone* ...): /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm:107:4: Unbound variable: gnc:*company-phone* bash-2.05b$ Yep, the symbol isn't available at runtime from business-utils.scm: [snip] (export gnc:*business-label* gnc:*company-name* gnc:*company-addy*) (export gnc:*company-phone* gnc:*company-fax* gnc:*company-url*) (export gnc:*company-email* gnc:*company-contact*) [snip] [/snip] etc,etc. I just copy and pasted an existing, then edited each addition. Are you sure you ran a make install to get your files into the install tree? The file above is /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm which would seem to imply it's from the distro version and not your own version. Once I get this working I'll work on the report side. Also Is there a way to make the Company Name input field, etc wider? Our company name has to scroll thru using the cursor to see or edit what does not show. Unfortunately no, there's no way to make that input field bigger. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: guile docs for gnucash
On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 19:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Are you sure you ran a make install to get your files into the install tree? The file above is /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm which would seem to imply it's from the distro version and not your own version. -derek I renamed the original 2 files with .orig appended then copied the 2 modified ones there to test. Do I have to make everything with the modified files? I thought one of the points about using guile is not having to re-compile, but I don't know how the variables are handled thru the c code for saving in the file etc.. -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: guile docs for gnucash
Quoting Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 19:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Are you sure you ran a make install to get your files into the install tree? The file above is /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm which would seem to imply it's from the distro version and not your own version. -derek I renamed the original 2 files with .orig appended then copied the 2 modified ones there to test. Do I have to make everything with the modified files? I thought one of the points about using guile is not having to re-compile, but I don't know how the variables are handled thru the c code for saving in the file etc.. No, you do not need to recompile, but you DO need to install the modified SCM files into the install tree (/usr/...). Having the .orig files in the install tree might be a bad idea, so you might want to remove them (or move them into your homedir or something). -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
New register action: forward the current transaction.
I am about to implement a Forward Transaction command in the split register. I hope you would incorporate it, but I'm doing it because I want to have it myself. The name comes by analogy to Reverse Transaction: the new transaction will reverse the effect on the account of the original, but the amount is not returned where it came from. Instead it is forwarded to a different account. First, I explain what I need it for. I have a gross receipts asset account to which I debit parking rent checks as they arrive, and a quarterly report which (will) calculate a gross receipts tax based on debits to that account. I record the check number, date on the check, amount, maker, and memo in the Gross Receipts ledger, credited to the customer's accrued rent income account. I really don't want to type this data more than once. Ok, now I want to mail in the deposit. I need to debit checking and credit Gross Receipts with the total amount, and I need to print out a deposit slip listing all of the checks with all of the details. This is somewhat painful to accomplish with GnuCash now (cvs HEAD), but it does work. I made a giant split transaction with all the splits crediting Gross Receipts except for one which makes a balancing debit to checking. I put the customer's check number in the action field, the customer's check date and name in the memo field, Gross Receipts in the account, and the check amount in the credit field. In simple ledger mode the account window has what I would call a bug: it shows each split as a separate transaction in the ledger, but when you click on the split toolbar button, every one of those transactions seems to contain all of the other splits. The impression is that there are N copies of the transaction, each with all the splits in it. I think simple ledger should never show any given transaction more than once. The debit field should show the total of all debits to the displayed account, the credit field should show the total of all credits to the displayed account, and the account field should be split transaction. Getting the splits in the order I wanted was not easy since I didn't notice that planning ahead was essential for that. Also it is easy to get the split moved to the top if you forget to put a value in the credit field before clicking somewhere else to copy data. So I made a bunch of splits with the credit field already filled in so they wouldn't move. At the end, I had a bunch of blank splits I wanted to delete, so I selected the split, clicked delete, answered the dialog, selected the next split, clicked delete, answered the dialog, clicked delete, answered the dialog... oops!! I deleted the whole transaction. So I got to do it twice. (There ought to be a small change which would make that less likely ... but I don't know what it would be). I used the single transaction report to print the deposit slip. There is something wrong with that report. It reports a nonzero net change for which I see no cause. For today, I fixed it by editing the html and printing it from Mozilla, but I plan to investigate. To make it easier next time, I plan to implement a forward command which will let me create the deposit transaction with one or two keystrokes per check (using a menu accelerator key). It will work like this. First I create the empty deposit transaction, with date, description deposit to checking acct #..., account a:c:checking, and an amount in the debit field. Then I do cut transaction. Next, I repeatedly select one of the checks (the transaction from a:c:accrued:customer to a:c:gross receipts), do a forward transaction command (with one keystroke), and if necessary, press the down arrow to get to the next check, etc. At the end, I go to the blank transaction and do paste transaction. The result will be the giant split transaction described above. Each forward transaction command results in the addition of one split to the copied transaction. The account field is always the current account of the register. The amount is the negative of the amount of the selected transaction. The action, memo, and reconciled fields are filled in as specified in the forward transaction preferences tab of the global preferences, using data from the selected transaction. - Here is an earlier idea, in which I would be creating separate deposit transactions for each check. That has the disadvantage of not matching the bank's version of the checking account. /* Forward the current transaction, i.e., create a new transaction which in a sense reverses the current transaction: the amount debited (credited) to the current account by the current transaction is credited (debited) by a new transaction. However, the amount is not returned where it came from, but instead is sent on to an account specified by the last transaction which was copied using the Copy Transaction command. There must be a copied transaction, and
Re: guile docs for gnucash
On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 19:57 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-19-05 at 19:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Are you sure you ran a make install to get your files into the install tree? The file above is /usr/share/gnucash/scm/business-prefs.scm which would seem to imply it's from the distro version and not your own version. -derek I renamed the original 2 files with .orig appended then copied the 2 modified ones there to test. Do I have to make everything with the modified files? I thought one of the points about using guile is not having to re-compile, but I don't know how the variables are handled thru the c code for saving in the file etc.. No, you do not need to recompile, but you DO need to install the modified SCM files into the install tree (/usr/...). Having the .orig files in the install tree might be a bad idea, so you might want to remove them (or move them into your homedir or something). -derek That did it, Thanks... I did an install to /opt and that seems to work fine. Now to complete some of the changes. My other question still persists. Is there any documentation for the guile portion... logic diagrams... anything? I know you would like us to make some of the code changes and submit them for a lot of these little changes, but it would make it a lot easier if we had something other than the hunt and peck method. -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
