Performance improvements to gnucash

2000-07-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Carlson writes: > Hi, > As these are the first changes I've made, I didn't > really know how to sumbit them. Since they are short, I > just included the diff -c below from the current cvs tree. > Is the the best way to do this? > There's a script called make-gnucash-patch whic

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ralf Gorholt writes: > Hi Robert, > > I had already started the translation of some of the HTML pages into german > before I left for my holidays. Now that I am back I have again some time to > continue. Niklaus Giger has already contacted me in the past and asked to > coordinate our work.

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > > > - If only SGML, then that forces anyone that gets a CVS archive > > > to add yet another component to those that they install. > > > > And the people who will

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > Should we have HTML, or SGML in the source tree? is the question. > > - If both, then there is the risk that someone may modify the HTML, > and then watch it get overwritten the next time someone upstream runs > "make," and builds fresh HTML. > > - If only SGM

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:49:56 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Niklaus Giger writes: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am starting the transl

Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Niklaus Giger writes: > Hello, > > I am starting the translation of the GnuCash HTML-manuals into german. > > Do I just have to copy the doc/html/c/*.html files into a new doc/html/de > directory? > > Or do you use any tools (docbook, SGML, XML)? > No, not at the moment - it's just r

gnucash 1.5.0 problem

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ralph F. De Witt writes: > Hi: > Recently installed mandrake version 1.5.0 of gnucash. everytime I try to use > help or online help the program instantly terminates, leaving the lock file. > Have tried this many times. I run gnucash from the kde desktop. > What version of the gnome librarie

Away till Monday

2000-07-19 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I'm off from Thursday morning to Monday evening, Australian time. If you've got anything urgent, mail me now! Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's been a numbered released very recently. They may not have a > > binary for it yet. > > gtkhtml is shipped in the gnucash-1.5 source tree, in the lib/ > directory. You

Gnucash 1.4.2 build problem

2000-07-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Tom Corner writes: > Hello, > > Let me try this again. I am using gnucash-1.4.2, guile-1.3.4, and > g-wrap-0.9.4. This is said to be correct. > > The build completes to the final step. Then it blows up in the final > link with undefined references to the following symbols: > > scm_as

Re: problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-16 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Walker writes: is what you mean? > > biffhero-laptop:~# dpkg -l | grep gtk | grep html > ii libgtkxmhtml-d 1.2.4-helix1 The Gnome gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget -- develop > ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.2.4-helix1 The Gnome gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget > No. Gtk-xmhtml is the old gtk html widget that

Re: Types of reports required

2000-07-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jason Rennie writes: > > Am Son, 02 Jul 2000 schrieb Robert: > > * Tax-related transactions? Basically > > just a transaction report with > >appropriate accounts selected. Do we want to do this? Not > >straight away, to be honest - too risky! > > Might it be worthwhile to hav

Re: compilation problems

2000-07-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Marc Evans writes: > OK, I have gone back and built the g-wrap-0.9.4 suite again. Looking very > closely at the "make install" phase I discover that the g-wrap-rs file is > never copied into /usr/local/libexec, which is where /usr/local/bin/g-wrap > expects it to be. I have therefore copied it

Re: installation of gnucash

2000-07-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Poldi Winkler writes: > After I have run guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require > 'new-catalog)" I could open gnucash. a great wonder! > But I think it is really to complicated for an amateur. But anyway - > thanks for the help. > Poldi This one isn't our fault, AFAIK. I believe it'

installation of gnucash

2000-07-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Poldi Winkler writes: > Hello, > it's a very hard job to install gnucash! I have used the SuSE-rpm-File > from Stephan and was very happy when I have solved all the dependences > (I hope so!). The last topic was slib. Then I have started gnucash and > I got the following message: > > gnuc

Re: compilation problems

2000-07-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
OK, I've found the problem - something's wrong with your configuration of g-wrap. Open up /usr/local/bin/g-wrap (it's a guile script). Go to about line number 52 (NB: the lines are added by me) and you'll see something like the following: 50 (let ((executable 51 (case targ

missing

2000-07-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Terry writes: > I finally downloaded 1.5.0 and of course have two unsatified dependencies. > > libgnomeprint.so.6 > libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 > > I have of course been ignoring these messages the last few days and am now > getting bit. Try downloading from helixcode. They provide the most up-

Re: traslation italian

2000-07-13 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i have use this instructions but the translation funcion in mode parzial.something >menu is translate the others remain in english .Why? I have reconfigure et remake >the program but the problem not resolve. > Thanks >

libgnomeprint.so.6

2000-07-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Robert L. Cochran Jr. writes: > I just tried installing gnucash-1.5.0-1.i386.rpm on a Red Hat 6.2 system. > The attempt to install comes after first installing the gtkhtml rpm that is > also on the ftp.krondo.com site. I am getting an error message for > libgnomeprint.so.6 and libgdk_pixbuf.so

mailing list alive?

2000-07-11 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jason Rennie writes: > > Hello, > > I've sent in two subscribe e-mails in the past two weeks and haven't > gotten any response. Is the GNUCash devel mailing list alive? What do I > need to do to get on it? Yes, the mailing list is alive. Try going to the following address to subscribe

Re: release

2000-07-10 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Alexander J.P. writes: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Dave Peticolas was purported to have written: > > GnuCash 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 are released. The best link to use today would > > probably be the sourceforge one: > > > > http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash/ > > > > dave > > > >

Problem on compile gnucash-1.4.1/src/optional

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Molnar writes: > Hello, > > This is the first time this machine has been used to build gnucash and I > am getting the following errors that lead me to belive something is not > installed properly or is in the wrong place. The perl deps are installed > and the versions are: >

Re: Helixcode have packaged gnucash 1.4.1 for Debian

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Walker writes: > > >>>>> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:23 +1000 (EST), Robert Graham Merkel > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > However, you might want to wait until they fix the packaging bugs > > ... they'

Re: Helixcode have packaged gnucash 1.4.1 for Debian

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Molnar writes: > H... That's what I was going to do for Mandrake. Can someone explain > the problem? > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > > Robert Graham Merkel writes: > > > If you want to get gnucash for Debian (

Helixcode have packaged gnucash 1.4.1 for Debian

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > If you want to get gnucash for Debian (along with the Helix > gnome packages, which are a fair bit more current than the > native Debian ones), add the following line to your > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode

Helixcode have packaged gnucash 1.4.1 for Debian

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
If you want to get gnucash for Debian (along with the Helix gnome packages, which are a fair bit more current than the native Debian ones), add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

Check Printing Configuration

2000-07-09 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Marc Howard Zuckman writes: > I installed gnucash 1.4.1 from the source tarbll on a redhat 6.0 > system with very recent helix-gnome updates. I have gnome-print-devel > g-wrap, etc. > > configure reports no errors, but doesn't specifically refer to searching > for libgnomeprint. The inst

Re: what do we want to graph?

2000-07-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bob Stanfield writes: > > > Net worth graph: > > > > The only way that a graph can show anything useful about net worth is > > to show its growth (hopefully) over time. So I would propose a bar - > > or more likely a line graph which shows assets, liabilities, and net > > worth over a p

what do we want to graph?

2000-07-07 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
OK, now that guppi is starting to move along, we might like to start thinking about what kinds of graphs we want. Again, I've dissected Quicken's reporting capabilities, and am presenting a list of reports that we might consider implementing ourselves. Quicken's charting features are basically n

Re: shares and fonds

2000-07-07 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bob Stanfield writes: > I have put together a program for my own consumption that > tracks and graphs my portfolio. Through daily downloads I have > loaded my MySQL database with a history of the portfolio. > > One feature I use is the tracking a comparison between two+ > stocks

shares and fonds

2000-07-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Poldi Winkler writes: > Is it possible now or in the next future to manage the daily > stock/fonds situation (with manual input for fonds and via internet > for stocks) in gnucash and get the overview about different periods as > charts? If it is not planned to handle in gnucash, does anybody

Latest stable release?

2000-07-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Paul Lussier writes: > > Hi all, > > Is 1.4.1 the latest stable release? There's nothing on the website stating > what the latest is, 1.4.1 is the obvious choice, since it's the highest > numbered release, but I just want to confirm this. > > Thanks, That's correct. ---

Re: translation gnucash

2000-07-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > I must traslation gnucash in italian , i must edit any files?? I > >have translade the file message is right? > > > >GnuCash doesn't currently have an Italian translation. If you can provide one, > >that would be real

translation gnucash

2000-07-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I must traslation gnucash in italian , i must edit any files?? I have translade the file message is right? GnuCash doesn't currently have an Italian translation. If you can provide one, that would be really good. --

Report I missed

2000-07-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
One report that I think I missed last time around was a cash flow statement, which is a fairly straightforward exercise. Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Problem with Make

2000-07-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm afraid your gcc setup is broken. Until you get that sorted out, > > you won't be able to compile gnucash. Sorry! > > Do you know if this problem was ever resolved?

The Engine

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Gary Bickford writes: > This was inspired by reading the discussion on the "Report calculations in > the engine" thread. > > I can see the client/server architecture being very useful, esp. if it can > be adapted to allow web interfacing - I could then provide a web interface > for each of

Re: Account-level meta-information

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > It has occurred to me that we really need some account-level > > meta-information beyond the fixed fields and ... > > > make our reporting > > a whole lot more powerful a

Re: problems starting on SuSE 6.3

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Andy Bernat writes: > I also just tried the SuSE rpm and the failed dependencies I got were: > imlibdev, g-wrap, libjpeg.so.62. I suspect the the first and the last > dependency are because I've got SuSE 6.3 and not 6.4 (I've run into > this sort of problem before) but I don't understand th

gnucash 1.4.1, g-wrap 0.9.4 and guile 1.4 (fwd)

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christian Krause writes: > Hi, > > Problem: > gnucash 1.4.1 doesn't compile with guile 1.4 and g-wrap 0.9.4 > If you check the archives, I've explained how to fix the problem with g-wrap.0.9.4. The difficulties with Guile 1.4 are known problems. Could you please revert to the 1.3.x serie

Re: Problem with Make

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
> gcc -ansi prova prova.c > > prova.c: In function `main': > prova.c:8: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast > prova: In function `_init': > prova(.init+0x0): multiple definition of `_init' > all in gg@make[4]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.4.1/src/experi

Account-level meta-information

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
In response to the mail that's being going back and forth WRT reports, it has occurred to me that we really need some account-level meta-information beyond the fixed fields and text notes we already have. We could potentially go on adding more fixed fields to different types of accounts, but if w

Problem with Make

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -g -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_ > -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/ > sr/include/gnome-xml -I/usr/include -g -o .libs/gnucash MultiLedger.o SplitLedg > r.o Destroy.o Eu

Re: help on disabling preferences widgets

2000-07-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Kevin Finn writes: > > I can take a stab at it - I'm interested in picking up more Gtk+. Does it > make more sense for each option to provide access functions that other options > can use to enable/disable it, or perhaps just have those other options > disable the affected option "by n

Plotting...

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Matt Martin writes: > Howdy all, > > Just got the latest CVS guppi to build and it is starting to look sweet. > > They have basic pie and bar charts working; you can even rotate the pie > and drag the slices around ! > > So what I'm wondering is: are there plans for integrating somethin

gnucash and g-wrap 0.9.4

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
g-wrap 0.9.4 contains some changes to the way pointers are passed between guile and C. Gnucash has not been updated to cope with this yet. You can fix it temporarily by adding the following line to src/scm/bootstrap.scm.in (not bootstrap.scm, which is a generated file) before you compile (thanks

Re: libguile.so.4

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rolando Roman writes: > yup i have same error. can't get gnucash to work in suse 6.4 > Either build gnucash yourself, or try Stephan Kahnt's RPM's. Either gnucash.org or my personal web page will be hosting them as soon as Stephan sends them. I'll give a URL as soon as I have the files. --

libguile.so.4

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bob Stanfield writes: > Folks, > > I am running with SuSE 6.3. I get the following error: > > ./gnucash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libguile.so.4: > undefined symbol: qt_error > > I have no native libguile.so.4. > > However, I did > libguile.so.

rpm for SuSE 6.4

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Stephan Kahnt writes: > I just made rpms of gnucash-1.4.1 and g-wrap-0.9.1 for SuSE 6.4. Where > can I upload those files? Normally you would send them to jeremy collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the web/ftpmaster. I'm not sure if he's answering email at the moment (it's a holiday weekend in the st

help on disabling preferences widgets

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Kevin Finn writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up the preferences dialog for auto decimal point so that > there is a check box to enable/disable the feature and then a range of values > for how many decimal places will be automatically created. Is there a way to > grey out or

Re: Unbound variable: pointer-token-null?

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Matthew Condell writes: > Paul Worrall writes: > > I have just compiled & installed gnucash 1.4.1, and all seemed to go smoothl > y > > however... selecting Import QIF causes gnucash to crash, and selecting the > > Profit & Loss, Share Portfolio anD Balance Sheet reports causes an error

Re: problems starting on SuSE 6.3

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Andy Bernat writes: > Thanks to you both for your very prompt replies. Using 1.2.5 was a > mistake. I certainly had meant to use the most recent version so I > appreciate your pointing it out to me. So, I tried 1.4 but I can't get > it to compile, even after upgrading guile to 1.4, which re

Unbound variable:pointer-token-null?

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jack writes: > It is nice to know I'm not alone?? I recently compiled & > installed 1.4.1 without a hitch, but when I select Import, > gnucash crashes with the following messages: > > /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm:32:9: In expression >(pointer-token-null? agroup

Unbound variable: pointer-token-null?

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Paul Worrall writes: > I have just compiled & installed gnucash 1.4.1, and all seemed to go smoothly > however... selecting Import QIF causes gnucash to crash, and selecting the > Profit & Loss, Share Portfolio anD Balance Sheet reports causes an error > message. In each case, the error mess

Re: Types of reports required

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > Remember that the P&L is generated BEFORE the income/expense accounts are > zeroed. The Balance Sheet is generated AFTER the income/expense accounts are > zeroed. Point noted. > > * Accounts Payable/Receivable. > > Just a transaction report with appropriate

CVS - gnucash vs. gnucash-1-4-branch

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > So, if I want to use the latest and greatest gnucash updated to now with > CVS, I should just use gnucash rather than gnucash-1-4-branch, right? > > The reason that I ask is that VERSION is set to 1.3.100 on gnucash

Types of reports required

2000-07-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
To get a handle on the reporting features that we need, I've spent some time playing with Quicken to see what the competition offers :) After wading through the interface (does anyone know how to turn all the (*&@#($*& glitz off?), as far as I can tell, the reporting capabilities aren't all that f

Re: GNUcash bug report

2000-07-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --linas > > It's been rumoured that Matt Post said: > > > > Sorry if I'm mailing this to the wrong person, but I couldn't find a > > place to submit bug reports on the main page. > > > > I can reproduce this everytim

problems starting on SuSE 6.3

2000-07-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Andy Bernat writes: > Hi! > I just successfully compiled gnucash 1.2.5 (successful in the sense of > getting no errors) but when I try to run gnucash I get the message: > > gnucash: bootstrap file is /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/bootstrap.scm > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/local/s

Report calculations in the engine

2000-06-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
There has been some discussion recently over whether the engine should have features that allow extracting higher-level summary information (such as totals etc.) for reporting purposes. In the medium to long term, it would be great to move gnucash to support multiple users, with the engine backen

gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Poldi Winkler writes: > Hello gnucash-list, > I have installed gnucash 1.4.1 with the rpm-File (I use SuSE 6.4) The > installation was OK (I have got no message), but when I try to run > gnucash I get a message about missing libguile.so.4 (I have installed > libguile.so.6) and later libreadli

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: > Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Personally, I think that this is one weakness in the present approach to > > report generation. I would prefer to see an implementation that does the > > calculations in the engine (as directed by the report generator

Re: PalmOS port and conduit

2000-06-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > Scott Bundy writes: > > I noticed on the webpage that you guys are looking for someone to do the > > palm port of gnucash with conduits, etc... If someone has not already > > signed up for this, I would like to volunteer my services, or at least > > help out if someo

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-30 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Clark Jones writes: > A thought has occurred to me: A possible solution would be to "migrate" > to C++ (not a humongous project, since a quick look through a "tar -tvzf" > of a source-tarball reveals that it's mostly in C) and then use C++'s > ability to "overload" the normal operators to, i

Re: Re: Re: Problems with make

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Robert Merkel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have testing the file cpp-comment-test.c > the first command > gcc -o cpp-comment-test cpp-comment-test.c > > no problem > > the second comm

make problems

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I've looked further, and if your problem is what I think it is, it can't easily be solved at our end, as swig generates lots of C code with C++-style // comments in it. Have you had a chance to run the test program I sent you? Robert M

Re: Re: Problems with make

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Session.c: In function `xaccSessionBeginSQL': > Session.c:197: parse error before `/' > Session.c:211: parse error before `/' I think I've solved your problem. Your gcc is running with the --ansi option set, which disallows C++-style comments, which are present in

trouble while compiling against guile-1.4

2000-06-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Martin Willemoes Hansen writes: > Hi! > > I just tried compiling gnucash, after I upgrade my guile interpretter > from 1.3.? to guile-1.4 and it resulted in a compile error: > > gnc.c:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > gnc.c:56: parse error before ^POINTER_ARRAY_s

Problems with make

2000-06-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i have a problem whith make gnucash 1.4.1 the error is > > make all-recursive > make[1]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99' > Making all in debian > make[2]: Entering directory `/gnucash-1.3.99/debian' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > make[2]:

Re: backup v2

2000-06-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Glen Ditchfield writes: > > + GnuCash should maintain log histories, rather than save histories, to > > handle failure #3. > > > > After saving, the current log file should be renamed to be the first > > log history file, and a new log file should be started. > > Wouldn't it be sim

Re: gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Arnold Troeger writes: > I can do this for Mandrake 7.0. Would that help? Just tell me where to upload > the rpms. > > Regards, > > -- > Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand > > "Microsoft Win

Re: gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > The correct way to solve this problem would be to build a binary package > on a mandrake system, and have mandrake users use that instead. Ditto for > SuSE, etc. If there is anyone out there who has built, or can build Mandrake,Suse, Caldera, or any other binary packa

Re: Hi & small tidbits for the wishlist

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > "Alex J.P." writes: > > 1. Is equity a part of the balance sheet?? > > Our balance sheet isn't quite right at the moment. As I understand > it, a balance sheet is supposed to have equity on it, but it's also > supposed to be structured a bit differently. The report

Re: cvs 2000-06-26

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Roland Roberts writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > src/gnome/dialog-totd.c includes ; > what version of gnome is required to get this? It's not part of > redhat 6.1 > just comment out that line. It's just cruft that I forgot to take out before submitting the patch.

Hi & small tidbits for the wishlist

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Alex J.P. writes: > Also, If any of you guys have seen Moneydance, there is a nifty feature to > automate txns and also a remind me feature. Would some thing like this be in > the works? > This is probably the most requested feature. We're working on it, and it will appear some time in the

Re: gnucash 1.4.1

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rolando Roman writes: > WHRE WHERE WHERE CAN I GET THOSE > root@Ptorico:/home/landy/rpms > rpm -Uvh gnucash-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libguile.so.4 is needed by gnucash-1.4.1-1 > libreadline.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.4.1-1 > root@Ptorico:/home/landy/rpms >

cvs 2000-06-26

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > CVS has been updated. > > New Stuff (Development Branch): > > + Robert Graham Merkel's tip-of-the-day patch. We need tips! If there >was a tidbit of information you wish you had known when you started >using GnuCash and/or started tracking your finances,

Borken transaction report date comparisons.

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I've had a closer look at the transaction report date comparisons, and they appear to be more broken than you have pointed out - they were sorting on exact times, not dates. This won't cause crashes or anything, but it will cause transactions to be ordered incorrectly. If 1.4.1 wasn't out, I'

Re: New to GnuCash and more...

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rolando Roman writes: > i posted thi yest can someone shed some light on the problem belo? > > > > > landy@Ptorico:~ > gnucash > gnucash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libguile.so.4: undefined >symbol: glibtop_global_server > landy@Ptorico:~ > Which distribution, and

transaction report

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > Hi Robert, could you modify the transaction report to use > the gnc:timepair-* functions in date-utilities instead of > manipulating them directly? > > I mean things like using gnc:timepair-lt instead of > (< (car a) (car b)) and gnc:timepair->secs instead of > (lo

Re: "Tip of the day" patch

2000-06-25 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > Robert Graham Merkel writes: > > This patch adds "Tips of the Day" a la gimp, and various proprietary > > software packages. > > > > It has a couple of issues at the moment: > > > > 1) The visual design cou

Re: Making preferences settable from outside the dialog

2000-06-25 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes > I'm about to walk out the door, so I can't get into much detail, > but I thought there was a function you can you to tell the options > dialog that an option has changed. I will be able to tell you more > later this evening (PST). > Great. If it's there, I must have

Automating transactions

2000-06-25 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ekkehard Goerlach writes: > > Is there a possibility to automate repetetive tasks (e.g. monthly > salary) with some sort of a script ? > We are working on adding recurring transactions in the 1.5.x series. Robert Merkel

Making preferences settable from outside the dialog

2000-06-25 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I have almost finished a "Tip Of The Day" dialog. Its appearance, and much of the code, is borrowed from gnome-hint. The only problem I have remaining is that I want to have a typical "show tips of the day at startup" checkbox present in the dialog box itself, but make this behaviour also config

Re: Requirements for an integer-based value representation

2000-06-24 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Sorry it's taken me a while to reply, but better now than when we implement anything. Everything you've written so far makes sense, but I've just got a couple of comments on your requirements list. As well as Gnucash developers, users will write their own Scheme code that makes use of the new m

Guile 1.4 Released

2000-06-22 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I'd seen the fact that Guile 1.4 existed mentioned somewhere, but it's now announced on freshmeat. Release announcement is at: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/guile/2000-06/msg00198.html I suppose we should find out what breaks. . .

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:16:58 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as > Randolph Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:08:50PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > > > I believe, historically at least, banks have used "mils," or $0.001. > > They m

1.4.0 check printing

2000-06-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Do I understand correctly that check printing has been removed from > 1.4.0 and will reappear in 1.5.0? The Help file gives a full set of > instructions for printing checks, but Open Check Printing is not in my > Transaction menu. Yes, that's correct. We shou

Re: [REBOL] Andrew, you beast! - GC too tidy? Re:(6)]

2000-06-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Stanley Long writes: > Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > Stanley Long writes: > > > Is this familiar to you people? > [ ie, Carl Sassanrath about Schema and REBOL from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > > > Perhaps I should have dumped it into the gnuCASH ML, but I wasn't sure. > > > > That's very i

Re: Return on investment of stocks/mutual funds

2000-06-21 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > Dave Dribin writes: > > > > I am very interested in tracking my mutual fund and stock performance > > > > calculating the internal rate of return (IRR) of each contribut

Return on investment of stocks/mutual funds

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Dribin writes: > Hello, > > I've just downloaded GnuCash 1.4.0, and I'm very impressed! I am very > interested in tracking my mutual fund and stock performance in > GnuCash. I would like to be able to calculate my return on investment > (ROI) of my mutual funds. This can be done by

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

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,

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 c

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

Re: --batch argument

2000-06-20 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
(cc'ing this to devel - technical discussion) Rob Browning writes: > > With this you can do silly things like: > > gnucash --evaluate '(display "Hello world.\n") (gnc:shutdown 0)' > > or > > gnucash --evaluate '(display "Hello world.\n")' > --evaluate '(gnc:shutdown 0)'

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

2000-06-19 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 ov

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class (with proposed implementation)

2000-06-17 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > > We can't assume that every architecture will have a 64-bit integer. > > > > For that reason, and for the simple fact that if we are going to go to > > the trouble of doing this, we might as well go all the way :), I think > > we should use gmp's multiple precision

Needs of a currency arithmetic class (with proposed implementation)

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Buddha Buck writes: > So, what are the objections to this approach? 1) As to your specific implementation, it's in C++. I'm don't want to start a C/C++ flamewar here, but it's a major policy decision to introduce C++ into the GnuCash engine code, and C++ has several issues that make it a probl

Starting Problem with gnucash -1.3.100

2000-06-15 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Gary L. Klesczewski writes: > Evening All, > > I just downloaded 1.3.100, and ran into a problem with simply opening my > Savings account. > The RPM, or did you compile from source? What version of the gnome libraries, guile, and slib are you using? > The error that appears is as follows

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