Minor bug? in 1.4

2000-06-20 Thread Conrad Canterford
Hi, Just upgraded from 1.3.5 to 1.4.0. On a quick look, everything looks great. Much nicer all around. One minor thing though - my default currency is the Australian Dollar (AUD). All the values in the main window, and the values and totals in the register windows now show with "AUD" as their

Reports?

2000-06-20 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Hi, I was wondering (1.4.0 looks great, btw--solid), if there is a way to get a monthly total for each account/category, for a range of months. Currently there does not seem to be anything that will do this. Maybe with the months across the top, and the (sub)categories down the side, , etc.

Re: Swig w/gnome, and g-wrap

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Matthew Vanecek writes: Once upon a time, there were a couple of messages that said swig was not required for the GNOME build of gnucash, and that "yeah, we really need to take that outta the build process". This still has not happened. Is there a real dependency in the source on Swig with

Re: Major bug in 1.40 / Solaris and rh6.2 Linux Sparc

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Wesley Hosking writes: When trying to compile up 1.40 (from the tarball) - I get the following (On a Sparc Linux machine running rh6.2 ) : gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../engine -I../gnome -I../re gister-g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H

Re: Minor bug? in 1.4

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Conrad Canterford writes: Hi, Just upgraded from 1.3.5 to 1.4.0. On a quick look, everything looks great. Much nicer all around. One minor thing though - my default currency is the Australian Dollar (AUD). All the values in the main window, and the values and totals in the register windows

Re: Major bug in 1.40 / Solaris

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Dave Peticolas writes: Alan Orndorff writes: Dave Peticolas wrote: Alan Orndorff writes: Reports now work on Solaris under Gnucash 1.40, so I pulled up Profit/Loss and then looked at "Net." Not a pretty number, can someone fix this? :-) First you have to tell us what's

Re: Major bug in 1.40 / Solaris and rh6.2 Linux Sparc

2000-06-20 Thread Alan Orndorff
Dave Peticolas wrote: Wesley Hosking writes: When trying to compile up 1.40 (from the tarball) - I get the following (On a Sparc Linux machine running rh6.2 ) : gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../engine -I../gnome -I../re gister-g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include

Compile error

2000-06-20 Thread Vincent Yau
Dear All Today is my first time trying to make GNUCash happen on my RedHat 6.1 i386 box. I had to install Guile, G-wrap, SWIG And finally upon compiling GNUCash, I got this error: Entering directory '/opt1/gnucash-1.4.0/src/guile FLAVOR=gnome g-wrap --api c --target guile gnc.gwp

Re: Major bug in 1.40 / Solaris and rh6.2 Linux Sparc

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Wesley Hosking writes: Wesley Hosking writes: When trying to compile up 1.40 (from the tarball) - I get the following (On a Sparc Linux machine running rh6.2 ) : FLAVOR=gnome g-wrap --api c --target guile gnc.gwp ERROR: In expression (cdr lst): ERROR: Stack overflow

Re: Reports?

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Matthew Vanecek writes: Hi, I was wondering (1.4.0 looks great, btw--solid), if there is a way to get a monthly total for each account/category, for a range of months. Currently there does not seem to be anything that will do this. Maybe with the months across the top, and the

Re: Compile error

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Vincent Yau writes: Dear All Today is my first time trying to make GNUCash happen on my RedHat 6.1 i386 box. I had to install Guile, G-wrap, SWIG And finally upon compiling GNUCash, I got this error: Entering directory '/opt1/gnucash-1.4.0/src/guile FLAVOR=gnome g-wrap --api c

Binary Incompatibility of files ?

2000-06-20 Thread Wesley Hosking
I have 1.4 running, on rh6.2 (on Intel and Ultra Sparc ) Linux. After creating the accounts file with the Intel version, when I try and bring it up on the UltraSparc I get : This file appears to be from a newer version of GNUCash. You must upgrade GnuCash to read this file. Any hints on

Re: Binary Incompatibility of files ?

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Wesley Hosking writes: I have 1.4 running, on rh6.2 (on Intel and Ultra Sparc ) Linux. After creating the accounts file with the Intel version, when I try and bring it up on the UltraSparc I get : This file appears to be from a newer version of GNUCash. You must upgrade GnuCash to read

cvs 2000-06-20

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
CVS has been updated. New Stuff (Development Branch): + The main window displays the name of the currently opened file as GnuCash - filename. If there is no current file, it displays GnuCash - Untitled. + The account add dialog is now modeless. + The account add dialog will not let

palm support for gnucash

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Frederic Devernay writes: Hello, I saw you message on adding palm support to gnucash on the list, did you come to any conclusion? Yes, I have thought about it, but I've put the project on hold until gnucash has the ability to store metadata (including rules to map Palm expense app

Transaction Reminder

2000-06-20 Thread Charles M. Gagnon
I finally got 1.3.100 compiled on Solaris 8 and I like it. Thanks guys. Couple of questions: Are you planning on having a transaction reminder? I'd like to be able to pre-enter recurrent transactions with all the information needed. When the date comes, gnucash would simply offer me to record

Transaction Reminder

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Charles M. Gagnon writes: I finally got 1.3.100 compiled on Solaris 8 and I like it. Thanks guys. Couple of questions: Are you planning on having a transaction reminder? I'd like to be able to pre-enter recurrent transactions with all the information needed. When the date comes,

advice request: 401(k) loan account

2000-06-20 Thread Todd Greer
I would like to request some advice regarding account structure from the nice folks here: I have a 401(k) into which a portion of every paycheck goes. I took out a loan from that 401(k), and a portion of every paycheck also goes into that. I'm quite confused about how to handle this loan, as

Re: advice request: 401(k) loan account

2000-06-20 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Todd Greer wrote: I would like to request some advice regarding account structure from the nice folks here: I'll give it a stab. Remember that there is no "right" way to do it. There are only "workable" ways. Further, IANAA. I have a 401(k) into which a portion of every

Re: advice request: 401(k) loan account

2000-06-20 Thread John Hasler
I suggest that you treat the 401k as if it was a corporation in which you happen to own all the stock. Give it its own set of books. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Development

2000-06-20 Thread Willis Yonker
Okay, I'm going to try to help. I've done some C++ programming but I'm by no means a hacker. I want to help out on this project and get familar with C but I need somewhere to start. Can someone point out a feature that would be somewhat simple to add? -- Gnucash Developer's List To

Re: Development

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Willis Yonker writes: Okay, I'm going to try to help. I've done some C++ programming but I'm by no means a hacker. I want to help out on this project and get familar with C but I need somewhere to start. Can someone point out a feature that would be somewhat simple to add? If you're

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-20 Thread Keith Refson
I'll copy this to the list as it's of general interest. Herein begins floating-point arithmetic 101. :) Dave Peticolas writes: I wrote it is inevitable that rounding errors will accumulate when adding a large column of figures because none of the quantities being added has an exact

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-20 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Keith Refson wrote: I'll copy this to the list as it's of general interest. Herein begins floating-point arithmetic 101. :) [snip - description of FP calculations] Of course there are ways around this. If you add up the numbers in a different order you will get a

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Keith Refson writes: I'll copy this to the list as it's of general interest. Herein begins floating-point arithmetic 101. :) Dave Peticolas writes: I wrote it is inevitable that rounding errors will accumulate when adding a large column of figures because none of the quantities

Re: Reports?

2000-06-20 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Matthew Vanecek writes: Hi, I was wondering (1.4.0 looks great, btw--solid), if there is a way to get a monthly total for each account/category, for a range of months. Currently there does not seem to be anything that will do this. Maybe with

non-quicken gnucash inport

2000-06-20 Thread dave-mlist
I have data of my business transactions that I took from my bank's and broker's web pages, and I would like to import this data into gnucash. I could use the perl scripts for generating QIF files, but considering the manual intervention and the limitations of QIF compared to gnucash I would

non-quicken gnucash inport

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have data of my business transactions that I took from my bank's and broker's web pages, and I would like to import this data into gnucash. I could use the perl scripts for generating QIF files, but considering the manual intervention and the limitations of QIF

RE: README update

2000-06-20 Thread Leach, Chris J (Oakton)
I can confirm that I've had working versions on SPARC/Linux (compiled out of the tarball) and Solaris 2.6. - Chris -- From: Dave Peticolas[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 June 2000 17:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: --batch argument

2000-06-20 Thread gnucash-devel-return-830-archive=jab . org
Rob Browning writes: gnucash --evaluate '(display "Hello world.\n") (gnc:shutdown 0)' For the command line arguments, I want something much more user friendly. We may need both a low-level --evaluate, and something higher-level as well... Thoughts? One of the "lessons learned from"

Re: non-quicken gnucash inport

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
writes: I have data of my business transactions that I took from my bank's and broker's web pages, and I would like to import this data into gnucash. I could use the perl scripts for generating QIF files, but considering the manual intervention and the limitations of QIF compared to gnucash

Bug in transaction report?

2000-06-20 Thread Matthew Vanecek
I've been over this, but I cannot figure out what's going on. Whenever I open the transaction report, it crashes with the pictured trace, and an "Error executing scheme report". The error is "Function, wrong-type-arg". The function call is (according to the trace): [localtime -4294992496.0].

Re: Bug in transaction report?

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Matthew Vanecek writes: I've been over this, but I cannot figure out what's going on. Whenever I open the transaction report, it crashes with the pictured trace, and an "Error executing scheme report". The error is "Function, wrong-type-arg". The function call is (according to the trace):

Re: German homebanking software

2000-06-20 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:28:07 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Bernhard Rietzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --12945128BBFA933DBD2393F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo

Re: German homebanking software

2000-06-20 Thread Dave Peticolas
Christopher Browne writes: On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:28:07 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Bernhard Rietzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dies ist eine mehrteilige Nachricht im MIME-Format. --12945128BBFA933DBD2393F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii