Re: raw/ofx subdirectory

2000-06-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
Linas Vepstas writes: The directory 'raw' should probably be moved to be a subdirectory of src/experimental done. dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QIF HEY! HEY! were go'n away

2000-06-08 Thread Bill Gribble
"Andrew S. Howell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the following error when trying to import a qif file from Quicken 2000. After the error, gnucash exits. I'm running 1.3.99 on Redhat 6.2J Any Ideas? That's several bugs with QIF importing that you discovered

QIF importing

2000-06-08 Thread Keith Refson
One priece of sub-optimal behaviour I have noticed with QIF importation is the association with a specific GNUCASH account. I can choose the account from the "Accounts" tab after loading it, but the association is a once-off thing which isn't saved between sessions. Of course I can choose

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Rob Walker
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 23:07:31 -0400, Matthew Lepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Matthew 1) Ctrl-W doesn't close the register window, it seems to do Matthew something approximating delete-word-backwards good! That's readline behavior. I think that C-w needs to be removed from "close the register

Re: QIF importing

2000-06-08 Thread Bill Gribble
Keith Refson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One priece of sub-optimal behaviour I have noticed with QIF importation is the association with a specific GNUCASH account. I can choose the account from the "Accounts" tab after loading it, but the association is a once-off thing which isn't saved

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Bill Gribble
Rob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: good! That's readline behavior. I think that C-w needs to be removed from "close the register window", C-w should stay "delete word backwards", and "close window" should become something else. Well, using modifier-W to close a window has pretty long

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Derek Atkins
While we're at it, why not use the 'netscape' key-codes? M-w for close-window M-q for quit app M-o for open ... This way C-* is used for editing (ala readline) and M-* is used for window operations. Much more Unix-friendly, IMHO. Granted, I might accidentally

i'm awake (cvs 2000-06-08)

2000-06-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been updated. New Stuff: + Robert Graham Merkel's patch to the average balance report. + Bill Gribble's patch to the QIF importing routines. dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Matthew Lepper
I mentioned this because the menu says that C-W closes the register window, but it doesn't. It also seems to be a Gnome standard keybinding, if there is such a thing. -- Matthew Derek Atkins wrote: While we're at it, why not use the 'netscape' key-codes? M-w for close-window

Re: Small bugfix to average-balance report

2000-06-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: writes: It's been rumoured that Robert Graham Merkel said: This patch fixes a crash in the average balance report when the starting and ending dates are entered incorrectly. Um, I admit that I didn't really look at this patch, but have a stupid

Guile, CORBA, Engine...

2000-06-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 11:03:34 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to suggest that a better long-term architecture might be that the financial calculators etc. be implemented in C, as a part of the engine. My arguments for this

Featurectomy on the transaction report?

2000-06-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
The transaction report produces erroneous output if you just the double-column amount display in combination with the "merged" style output. The problem is that any potential "fix" also presents data in an incorrect way, particularly for multi-split transactions. Therefore I would like to

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
Matthew Lepper writes: I mentioned this because the menu says that C-W closes the register window, but it doesn't. It also seems to be a Gnome standard keybinding, if there is such a thing. I understand. In this case, there is a conflict between the gnome-standard text editing keys and the

Re: Small bugfix to average-balance report

2000-06-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. My general experience with interpreted languages on the server side is poor, I've walked away with the idea that its just a bad idea, and to just say no. Basically, they end up being CPU suckers that just don't scale, never mind maintenance headaches,

Re: UI bugs

2000-06-08 Thread Rob Walker
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:40:14 -0500, Scott Haug [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Scott I thought Dave would answer this, since he gave me the answer Scott when I first asked this question. But he didn't, so I will. Scott In all GNOME (GTK?) apps, you can assign your own hotkeys to Scott pulldown menu

Re: The Library Problem

2000-06-08 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Garrett Robert Banuk said: Yes, I've thought about doing this. Maybe on my free time over this summer. I was going to do this for my college project but it just seems to small. I think you wildly underestimate how hard it is to do a good installer. I think you

README update

2000-06-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Going through the "cleanups before 1.4" list, updating the README is probably not a bad idea. To do this, I need to update the list of supported platforms. At this stage, what do we have working besides (obviously) Linux/x86? --

Re: question: What is a JE?

2000-06-08 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Buddha Buck said: Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tend to think of "Journal Entries" as being like GnuCash "transactions" (i.e., a collection of splits that are related and balance). That's not the way Linas defined it or uses it. In his