Re: fr.po for 1.6.1 : won't be finished

2001-07-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 18:09:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 21:52 05/07/01 -0500, you wrote: Preferez-vous le finir? To non-french speaking-people : the question was : do you prefer to finish it ? Sorry if I came across a bit snappy, but it's just that if I can't read a conversation on a

Re: fr.po for 1.6.1 : won't be finished

2001-07-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:52:13 Jean-Claude Magras wrote: Preferez-vous le finir? Sincerely Jean-Claude Magras Could you please use English on this list? Only a minority of people here speak any French. -- Robert Merkel

Re: Proposal

2001-07-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:55:43 Chris Lyttle wrote: Hi I've been following the GnuCash-devel mailing list for some time now and now that we have 1.6.0 out the door I was wondering what the feeling would be for an occasional News email sent out to the various Linux News sites to keep people up

Re: Pie chart reports

2001-06-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:36:22AM -0500, Greg Hewgill wrote: I've just started using gnucash 1.6 (migration from Money 95). I've been running the reports and have found some odd discrepancies. In particular, in the expenses piechart (account-piecharts.scm), even expense accounts that have a

Re: Huh? Starting out with gnucash (new accounts, etc)

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:22:43 Robin Coon wrote: Eric Schwartz wrote: The current thing that is blocking me is setting up a brokerage account. Create all the relevant commodities first (check) Create accounts for each commodity in the brokerage account (check) Create an account for

Transaction report bug might be fixed now

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
WRT to account display bug in transaction report, I've checked in a fix to CVS HEAD. Would it be possible for you to check it works before I merge the fix into the 1.6 tree? 1 down (I think), several to go :) -- Robert Merkel

Re: compiling 1.6.0 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:52:08 Arnaud Calvo wrote: Well, I have understood your last message : install name-devel.rpm when you have name.rpm ! So when I encountered other pb, I installed : db1-devel-1.85-4mdk.i586.rpm libgal4-devel-0.5-2mdk.i586.rpm ... but it would have been too easy

Re: Balance sheet report for a sub-group of accounts

2001-06-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:15:46 Christian Stimming wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Oops, that bug goes on me. The problem is that I didn't manage to get the sub-balance calculation and the account showing/not-showing to follow the same rules on which accounts to include and

Re: integration with paytrust.com

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:27:58 Austad, Jay wrote: Has anyone here used Paytrust.com? How hard would it be to set up Gnucash to pull down bill information and handle transactions with paytrust? (Paytrust receives your bills for you, scans them in, and sends you an email when a bill comes

Modularization

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I have read Bill's suggestions, and I thoroughly support the concept of increasing modularity. There are, however, a couple of related issues I'd like to raise . . . 1) Are there self-contained parts of gnucash that we could turn in to libraries, enabling their easy use in projects that

User documentation for the Postgres backend

2001-06-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Linas, I'm currently going through the user docs, and I notice that we don't have the postgres backend documented in the online help. Is it OK to transplant your stuff from src/engine/sql/README into a help file? Is that document currently up-to-date? --

RE: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:45:08 Phillip Shelton wrote: I am lost. How does glib compare with glibc? glib and glibc are two seperate libraries. Glib was originally written as part of the gtk+ toolkit, and provides a whole collection of useful routines, such as basic data structures like lists,

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:41:37 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install GnuCash off and on for at least two years. 1.5.97 is the first version that I have successfully installed. Congratulations are in order, I think. Here is a rundown of my impressions: Installation is

Average Balance report borken WRT stocks/mutual funds

2001-06-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
It appears that the average-balance report is fundamentally wrong-headed about balance displays for stock and mutual fund accounts. Basically, when the average-balance report converts to the report currency, a fixed price is calculated which is used for all intervals in the report. This is OK

Re: Problem with multi-line style transaction report

2001-06-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:59:33 Damian Ivereigh wrote: OK I have fixed it. I needed to actually *save* the file before running the reports. I hope that doesn't mean we have to do that generally. Damian Sorry I didn't reply to your earlier email. This sounds like it's a bug. We have had

Re: Check printing and localisation (DE)

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, 31 May 2001 19:30:13 Herbert Thoma wrote: Klaus Ridder wrote: I totally agree: checkes are nearly not used here, focus on online banking would be much more important. I agree, too. A few points: 1) fixing check printing is a considerably smaller job than online

Re: doc problems

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 03:47:50 James LewisMoss wrote: I didn't want to go messing with this stuff not knowing how things were setup and planned, but here's the issues I see with the docs (I'm willing to fix these issues I just wanted to make sure I'm not messing with things that are meant to

GnuCash locking up your window manager

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
A little while ago you reported having some problems with GnuCash locking up Enlightenment when opening a new register window. I don't know whether you received a reply (if not, sorry about that), but your problem was added to our bug tracker (http://www.gnumatic.com/bugs) by one of the

Transaction report crash?

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
You reported a report with style: multi-line in the transaction report a little while ago. Nobody has been able to duplicate the crash, and there wasn't much to go on in the bug report. Is this crash still happening? Does GnuCash hang totally? Is there a scheme backtrace? I'd really like to

Currency printing not really fixable for 1.6

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ben, You're right - fixing the currency printing for cheques, for full generality, is going to be a major PITA, and there's no way we can get it into 1.6. However, for a quick hack to make things work just for AU users, you can just modify the function number-to-words in number-to-words.scm.

Check printing and localisation

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
GnuCash 1.5.x has the ability to print checks. Unfortunately, it writes out the amounts in words in a US-specific way - for examples, $234.56 is written out as Two hundred and thirty-four Dollars 56/100 and $234 is written as Two hundred and thirty-four Dollars 0/100 on Australian cheques,

Re: Check printing and localisation

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Wed, 30 May 2001 23:06:31 Duarte Loreto wrote: Hope this helps someone. I can look at the scheme file and see how it could work in portuguese, although I promisse nothing as I never coded in scheme nor C. Do you know perl? Python? Basic? Pseudocode? If you can code a little

Re: check locales (was something that I deleted and can't remmember)

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, 31 May 2001 10:03:29 Duarte Loreto wrote: I think it woul be easier to do the code than explain the grammar... ;) OK. By weekend, I can send you a Java class that gets a number and returns the string. The languages I'm better at (or least worse) are Java and VB. My current

Re: Compiling 1.5.97 for FreeBSD

2001-05-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Tue, 29 May 2001 22:57:41 Matthew Condell wrote: Hi, I've just started trying to get 1.5.97 compiled on FreeBSD 4.3. Haven't had a chance to try out earlier releases in the 1.5.x series. I've had a couple of hangups so far: Fixes (or at least workarounds) for the problems you

test

2001-05-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Please ignore. -- Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go You Big Red Fire Engine -- Unknown Audience Member at Adam Hills standup gig

printing bugs, at least one of which is guppi's

2001-05-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
(sorry for the crossposting, but probably appropriate in this case). I've been investigating bugs with gnucash's printing of guppi graphs. One seems to be a straightforward guppi bug, the other is somewhere in the interaction of guppi, gnucash, gtkhtml and possibly gnome-print :( Firstly, a

Re: Assignigng VAT values to accounts

2001-05-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Sun, 27 May 2001 02:07:12 Klaus Ridder wrote: Talking about GnuCash for business: It is already possible to set accounts to tax-related, which is quite useful. {tax} is inserted in the notes-field, as I can see. I _am_ using gnucash for business, and one of the functions I'm really

1.{56} dependancy list

2001-05-19 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
OK, below is a list of all the requirements I can *currently* think of for building and running gnucash 1.5.x, soon to be gnucash 1.6. Feel free to flame for errors and omissions :) Once we've corrected the errors we'll put this up on gnucash.org. Software requirements for GnuCash 1.{5,6}:

Re: margins for printing gtkhtml?

2001-05-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
O This is weird, as gtkhtml uses A4 size. I am not sure what is the standard way of printing settings like paper size, resolution, ... Lauris? I did notice this. I think the margins are probably fine for general text, for for tables, you want the option to use as much as the page as

Re: Australian BAS with GNUCash

2001-05-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:50:56 Klaus Ridder wrote: 29/4/2001 Woolworths 50.25 Assets:GST Credits 2.64 Expenses:Foodstuffs 47.61 Cash

Re: Balance Sheet report

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Thu, 10 May 2001 14:55:07 Linas Vepstas wrote: Found a bug in balance sheet report, Christian, is this yours? When I back-date a report, and select 'nearest price', it doesn't seem to actually use the nearest price. It seems to always use the latest price ... Maybe this is a price-db

Re: further plans with guppi, bonobo?

2001-05-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Sun, 06 May 2001 18:00:33 Dave Peticolas wrote: Christian Stimming writes: Bill Gribble will know more, but as I recall the libguppitank interface was already in existance when we decided to use guppi. I don't think it was created just for gnucash, but I'm not sure if any other apps use

Re: Gnucash 1.5.6 Python

2001-04-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:13:22 Nathan A. Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to run the latest gnucash, but when I do I get the following errors: Could not find platform independent libraries prefix Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to prefix[:exec_prefix] 'import site' failed; use -v

we forgot something

2001-04-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christian Stimming writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi goonie, we forgot another case. If the user chooses a small display-depth so that children accounts are not shown, then what balance should the parent-account show? Ok, given accounts Rob's Liabilities

borked gnc_numeric_mul

2001-03-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
There's something screwy happening in in gnc:numeric-mul. Here's a snippet of code, and the results out of the gnc-warn . . . (let . . . ;;; stuff . . . ;;; (price (gnc:price-get-value (gnc:pricedb-lookup-nearest-in-time pricedb

Re: reports

2001-03-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to see 'invoice' added as a report type. The way I envision it, its almost identical to 'transaction report', except that the visual layout resembles an invoice. The adressee would either be typed in by hand, or maybe pulled out of the account

Stacked barcharts?

2001-03-12 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Guppi supports them (though I'm not sure whether guppitank does), but it doesn't seem like we do. I was thinking that they'd be a kind of useful way to present income/expense data (ie each slice of the bar representing a different expense account). What do you think?

Re: Problem after installation

2001-03-07 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am facing a similar situation as Markus. I was using version 1.4.3 while Suse 7.0 was installed. Recently I upgraded to Suse 7.1, gnucash 1.4.3 still worked fine. Problems started when I discovered that later versions of gnucash were available. In the beginning

Detecting shared library problems

2001-03-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ben Stanley writes: The bane of a GNUCash user's life seems to be getting all the shared libraries installed - and learning what a shared library is etc. One would hope that rpm and other packaging systems would look after this for us, but a recent posting to the gnucash-users list

Re: Detecting shared library problems

2001-03-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Derek Atkins writes: Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might notice that we never hear of problems from Debian users trying to install the Debian packages. That's because Debian *does* have this problem solved. Debian dependancies are package rather than file

table row styles

2001-03-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, I'm just trying to get my head around the table style code, and I'm not sure how the API appears to work matches up with what I want to do. As you anticipated a while ago, I want set different rows different colours (heading rows different to subheading rows, alternating colors

proposed imaging arch

2001-03-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bakki Kudva writes: Just a quick note to put down my recent thoughts on image enabling gnucash. I made a diagram with Gnu Dia and have attached it. Still at a high leve conceptual stage. My thoughts are to keep mods to the gnc tree to an absolute minimum (so I don't have to dig

Re: Gnucash password protection and encryption

2001-03-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sounds like not a bad idea, you should pursue this on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. --linas It's been rumoured that Booster said: Hello, I am using Gnucash regularly, its really great. But I have one problem,

Re: etags crashes, ctags not

2001-02-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Darryl Okahata writes: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2001 10:59, James LewisMoss wrote: etags != ctags ctags produces a vi tags file. etags produces an emacs tags file. I don't agree. For that matter, why is gnucash even

Gnucash from CVS goes into infinite loop

2001-02-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Derek Atkins writes: I was trying to create a new account for some stock. When I tried to add the new stock, I decided to ask for "help", and this is when Gnucash went into an error loop. I did the following: o Right-click in the main window o Select "New Account"

Improving report performance

2001-02-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, It appears that the new report-generation code appends new html elements to the end of scheme lists. This is fine for short reports, but it's obviously O(n^2) and thus it seems like it's a real performance bottleneck for the transaction report, which can generate very large html tables.

libguile.so.9 trouble

2001-02-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Olaf Marc Zanger writes: hi there, on my suse 7.0 system with suse-gnucash 1.4.9 with the rpmfind guile-1.3-7.i386.rpm installed i get the following error message maxwest@sino:~ : error in loading shared libraries: libguile.so.9: cannot

Re: Image enabling gnucash?

2001-02-23 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bakki Kudva writes: teri wrote: In its current state OCR seems to work only in very controlled situations. eg. a warranty return card which you have control over and you force the user to write into boxes, or neatly typed paper documents which law firms use to do full text OCR and

Re: profit/loss with mutual funds

2001-02-22 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's been rumoured that Jason Rennie said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What way is a profit or loss calculated; should be (total_amount * current_price) - sum_t(value(t)), that is (current value of account - money spent to buy the current amount).

KDE personal finance app soon to be previewed

2001-02-19 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Looks interesting, but strictly personal finance, and closed source. http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/ Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We can build a better product than Linux" - Jim Allchin,

apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

2001-02-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes: Hi Already sent this to debian-user but didn't get any really helpful responses. Needless to say I _don't_ want gnucash removed but the following seems to be a mistake in dependencies. I've cut other bits out that seem to be irrelevant.

apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

2001-02-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Robert Graham Merkel writes: Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes: Hi Already sent this to debian-user but didn't get any really helpful responses. Needless to say I _don't_ want gnucash removed but the following seems to be a mistake in dependencies. I've cut

Re: simplifying memory management in panes

2001-02-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:38:17PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: However, if we are to have some reasonable hope of saving/restoring state (not to mention the popup menu issues) we can't just have arbitrary GtkWidgets put in panes, and at the moment

simplifying memory management in panes

2001-02-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
WRT our discussions on simplifying panes by replacing the gnc_report_window * member of the gnc_pane structure with a GtkWidget *, I agree that this would be a win. However, if we are to have some reasonable hope of saving/restoring state (not to mention the popup menu issues) we can't just have

Re: Regression tests?

2001-01-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dan Kegel writes: Could something similar be done for gnucash? Would it help make crash bugs less likely? One of the problems with that is that the majority of crashes seem to come from GUI code. Writing test scripts for a GUI is rather more difficult than writing them for server code.

Re: Regression tests?

2001-01-31 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dan Kegel writes: That's interesting. So the crashes are usually in the C that handles the GUI, not in the C that handles the database or any of the Scheme? We get the occasional crash from all three, but the engine stuff is probably the most reliable, and also easiest to debug if it

transaction-report.scm

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Birger Retterstl Olaisen writes: I've made some modifications to the file share/gnucash/scm/report/transaction-report.scm to add the posibility to sort by account number. These modifications may perhaps not be well coded (it's my first attempt to code in sceme, so I don't know the

Looks Good

2001-01-24 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Alex J.P. writes: Hi All, Finally got the unstable version to compile and run. The initial look at the new register windows and the help system in one short word is WOW!!. It looks really good. (A few more WOWs like this and we are going to make a lot more waves than we are making

Re: how to create nice HTML tables in reports?

2001-01-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Clark Jones writes: Christian Stimming wrote: [...] trtd colspan=2Assets/td.../tr trtd/tdtdCash/td.../tr trtd/tdtdChecking/td.../tr I think this solution looks a bit more sound than the rather ad-hoc Have a look at the development version, There's a bunch of table

Re: how to create nice HTML tables in reports?

2001-01-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christian Stimming writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 21 January 2001 13:09, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Have a look at the development version, There's a bunch of table generation code in it that ALL reports are going to get converted to using. I did have

gnome-print

2001-01-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes: Hi First, thanks for a great app; I use it daily (and drive my wife nuts asking for receipts after she's done the shopping). I'm glad you like it! I'm a programmer and am interested in hacking on gnucash (although I have a mainframe background

embedded gnc_report_windows and panes

2001-01-17 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I should have realised this earlier, but your report window code shoves the options dialog in a gtk_paned container even when the report is itself embedded in another container (in the case of panes, in another gtk_paned). Do you think it might be better to have a seperate options dialog for

attaching callbacks (was Re: arguments to -render . . .)

2001-01-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:49PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the gnc:html-*foo*-render

Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest. This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user" has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly. Crashing is nonetheless an irritating

arguments to -render in HTML generator code

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the gnc:html-*foo*-render that are required to display guppi charts in reports. However, I'm not exactly clear on how these are

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ariel Rios writes: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again: Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it.

Re: microsoft gnucash

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Linas Vepstas writes: FYI, just for grins, I had occasion to look over the web server logs recently, and couldn't not notice that folks at Microsoft like to look at our screenshots every now and then. Also, curiously, they seem very interested in our documentation for the QIF file

Mind if I modify report.scm to provide a different constructor?

2001-01-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
To support saving reports (required for panes, amongst others) we really need to create report instances with options already specified, and thus a constructor that takes report options as an argument. Any problem with this? Robert

multiple report window bug

2001-01-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
WRT the bug discussed on IRC where multiple report windows caused a crash in Redhat (with guile 1.3.4), I can confirm the bug is repeatable on Debian potato (also with guile 1.3.4). Fun fun fun for everyone to debug :/ Robert Merkel

Saving pane layouts in .xac file

2001-01-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob, I'd like so save the pane layout as part of the .xac file, rather than have it as a seperate file or as a part of the .gnucash-auto file. As it's file metadata, rather than something that fits with a specific account, transaction, or split, it's not really suitable for putting in the

Re: How do I get the top-level HTML widget from a gnc_report_window?

2000-12-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:56:45PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Bill, I'm busily working on the pane code, and I need to get the actual widget from a gnc_report_window and shove it in a container. How do I do so? You do it the other way 'round

Interface to pass a popup menu to a gnc_report_window

2000-12-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, I think we discussed before how I'd like to be able to pass a popup menu to a report_window. How difficult would this be to arrange? Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and

How do I get the top-level HTML widget from a gnc_report_window?

2000-12-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, I'm busily working on the pane code, and I need to get the actual widget from a gnc_report_window and shove it in a container. How do I do so? Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and

Support for casual users (was: Re: client-server)

2000-12-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Eugene Tyurin writes: snip Is this really something a casual user who wants to balance his checkbook and know how much he spends on beer can bear? Unless it's totally transparent to them, no. Basically, it may be that GnuCash, in the long term, has to split into two seperate

test 2

2000-12-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
-- rijweoprjwoiejrpoiwej Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and optimistic about its usage going forward and, yes, we can teach penguins the military close-order drill", Mark Norton, US

Hardwired path in src/guile/Makefile.am

2000-12-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
The following code in latest CVS src/guile/Makefile.am is kinda machine-specific . . . FLAVOR=gnome guile -c \ '(set! %load-path (cons "/usr/local/opt/g-wrap/share/guile" %load-path)) \ (primitive-load "./gnc.gwp") \ (gw:generate-module "gnc")' CLEANFILES

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Phillip J Shelton writes: Woud also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? On the face of it, that's not a bad idea. However, the gnumeric people to some extent have already had their date representation and functions decided for them (by the desire for Excel

RE: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Phillip Shelton writes: As gnucash is in C, should we look at seeing if it is ok to rewrite in C or just run with the gnumeric date functions? Or add another dependency? :-\ Um, I can't speak definitively but I think we'd all be extremely wary of adding dependancies to C++ libraries,

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: jody suggested that the gnumeric folks might be receptive to an app-neutral refactoring of the financial stuff in gnumeric. If we can make a freestanding library from their code, we can share it with them and

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Bill, you wanted some information about ROI calculation. All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting at this URL: http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/June-2000

Financial library

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent idea. Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just get going and if we start producing something good other people can get involved as they see fit?

ROI discussion

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, you wanted some information about ROI calculation. All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting at this URL: http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/June-2000/msg00409.php3 This calculations are slightly nontrivial, so sharing them with gnumeric if possible may not be a

Re: Open project - data file obfuscator

2000-12-07 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Mike Sabin writes: I fall into the category of "wanting-to-help-but-lousy-at-C-and-scheme". Your idea is a good one. Python is about the only language i'm worth anything in. I will consider it for a few weeks. December is looking pretty hopeless, workload-wise. If you get a chance

Open project - data file obfuscator

2000-12-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Looking for a way to help gnucash, but your scheme and C is a little rusty? Want to learn some xml? Want to help speed up development? Want to build a tool that could be the building block for a bunch of other very nifty things? Well, have I got a project for YOU! Generally, one of the first

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Derek Atkins writes: That's still not a fair comparrison. I can go compress the old binary format, too. Let's compare apples to apples here and leave file compression out of it. You certainly can go and compress the old binary format, and it shrinks a file down to about 1/3rd the size of

Associating expense/income accounts with stocks continued

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
OK, we've continued discussing this on IRC, and it turns out that like many things in life it's more complex than I first envisiaged. Not only do we need to record which accounts contain transactions related to a stock, for later tax reporting purposes we need to differentiate between interest,

tracking investment-related transactions

2000-12-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
OK, one thing that we need to do for stock reporting is associate stock accounts with income and expense accounts containing (surprise surprise) income and expenses related to that stock. I propose to add turn the "account add/edit dialog" into a tabbed dialog. The first page would stay

Away Friday

2000-11-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I'm intending to be away Friday 1st through the morning of Sunday 3rd December. -- Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and optimistic about its usage going forward and, yes, we can teach

Callback cleverness in window-main.c or just old cruft?

2000-11-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Is there something incredibly clever going on here that I'm not understanding, or is this code just crufty: src/gnome/window-main.c: static void gnc_account_cb(GNCMainWinAccountList *tree, Account *account, gpointer data) /* why the extra argument */ { gboolean sensitive; account =

Re: Tax report bug

2000-11-23 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I was kind of afraid something like this might happen!nbsp; If every time where a null string used to be returned, we now get a #f, this could cause a lot of bugs in numerous places. It would be better to fix the source of the problem, rather than the downstream problems it causes.

Re: Tax report bug

2000-11-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Richard -Gilligan- Uschold writes: gnucash: latest CVS guile: 1.3.4 g-wrap: 0.9.12 Herbert. -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Weichselgarten3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

#gnucash on irc.gnome.org

2000-11-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Linas, would you like to put something on the webpage about the #gnucash channel on irc.gnome.org? We've been using it quite a bit the past week or two, and I think it's working quite well. Robert Merkel

gnc-scheme URLs (was: printing problems)

2000-11-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Glen Ditchfield writes: On November 18, 2000 12:13 am, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Bill Gribble writes: ... which makes the HTML look sort of like what Linas was hoping it would: iframe src="gnc-scheme:(scheme-func-to-spew-html)" Then maybe somebody could

Re: printing problems

2000-11-17 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:25:46AM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: snip With suitable conventions for encoding the object's parameters (they get passed in via a GHashTable) we can use this as a handy way of embedding a LIVE guppi plot in the HTML widget. I have

printing problems

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
You mentioned briefly on IRC that you were doing something with printing. Was that gtkhtml printing, or just checks? It's just that we're still having problems with table splitting, despite the latest CVS gtkhtml supposedly fixing this. Is it somehow possible that the interface has changed

Could somebody try CVS gnucash with cvs gtkhtml?

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
According to the gtkhtml people, they have now implemented table splitting in CVS gtkhtml. However, when I try it, the tables are still split in the middle of lines. Could somebody else try printing (to a file is easiest) a multi-page transaction report with CVS gnucash and gtkhtml, just as a

gtkhtml strangeness continues

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Guys, I've just tried the new gtkhtml which was supposed to fix the page splitting with tables, but doesn't. Is it possible that we're doing something wrong with our use of gtkhtml to cause this to occur? Robert Merkel

Re: Making a fancy main window like our competitor :)

2000-11-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Matthew Vanecek writes: Robert Graham Merkel wrote: A couple of questions that must be answered about something like that. Do you want it simply because Quicken has it, or because it looks cool? Those in charge would really have to look very hard at whether such a feature truly

Making a fancy main window like our competitor :)

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
For those of you who haven't used Quicken lately, apparently it now has a main window that displays a configurable set of reports, graphs and other financial information (including downloaded stock quotes). It's a very nice feature and probably worth trying to do something similar. The question

Re: Transaction report crashes

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Hans-Juergen Hay writes: Robert Graham Merkel wrote: I can't duplicate your crash. Is there any other distinguishing features you can identify when the crash occurs. No, I try to buid it with debugging info so that I can look at the core file. I get back to you when I can

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