Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown" - SOLVED

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
FWIW: "README.dependencies" for gnucash states: webkitwebkitgtk-3.0 (Windows, Mac) webkit2gtk-3.0 (Everything Else) For Ubuntu Xenial, this is clearly wrong. webkit2gtk-4.0 is what is needed. On 7/7/19 4:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > SOLVED! > > I

Re: [GNC] Import Price from CSV Bug? (Robin Chattopadhyay)

2019-07-07 Thread Robin Chattopadhyay
Hi Geert- The intro screen DOES mention the namespace requirement in 3.6, I just didn’t stop to read it until I found the bug report. It didn’t in 3.5 and once I got my import working, I stopped reading it. It was trivial to update my script, but (please forgive my after-the-fact questioning)

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown" - SOLVED

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
SOLVED! I had both libwebkit2gtk-3.0 and libwebkit2gkt-4.0 installed, as well as libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev. I just noticed that libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev was NOT installed. So, I installed libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev and rebuilt gnucash 3.6 from scratch. That seems to have fixed it. For some reason in

Re: [GNC] Import Price from CSV Bug? (Robin Chattopadhyay)

2019-07-07 Thread David Carlson
Ok, thanks for the clarification. On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:51 PM John Ralls wrote: > No, because this is an issue with CSV price imports, not transaction > imports. The other import types don't import prices. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jul 7, 2019, at 2:40 PM, David Carlson > wrote:

Re: [GNC] Import Price from CSV Bug? (Robin Chattopadhyay)

2019-07-07 Thread John Ralls
No, because this is an issue with CSV price imports, not transaction imports. The other import types don't import prices. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 7, 2019, at 2:40 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > If this was an issue with the CSV import, would it not also be an issue > with QIF, OFX and

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
On 7/7/19 3:36 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zondag 7 juli 2019 23:22:07 CEST schreef Harry G McGavran Jr: >> Hello Geert -- >> >>> Unfortunately I don't know the reason of this failure. If the guid does >>> exist, it may be that the gnc-register protocol failed to register with >>> webkit. I

Re: [GNC] Import Price from CSV Bug? (Robin Chattopadhyay)

2019-07-07 Thread David Carlson
If this was an issue with the CSV import, would it not also be an issue with QIF, OFX and generic imports? David Carlson On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 3:44 PM Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zaterdag 6 juli 2019 23:06:56 CEST schreef Robin Chattopadhyay: > > Hi Art- > > > > I found this Bug that was fixed

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zondag 7 juli 2019 23:22:07 CEST schreef Harry G McGavran Jr: > Hello Geert -- > > >Unfortunately I don't know the reason of this failure. If the guid does > >exist, it may be that the gnc-register protocol failed to register with > >webkit. > > > >This is a protocol (similar to http or ftp)

[GNC] Fwd: RE: gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Geert Janssens
Please keep responses on the list so others can follow the conversation :) Regards, Geert -- Doorgestuurd bericht -- Onderwerp: RE: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown" Datum: zondag 7 juli 2019, 23:25:26 CEST Van: Harry G. McGavran, Jr. Aan: Geert Janssens

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Hello Geert -- >Unfortunately I don't know the reason of this failure. If the guid does exist, >it may be that the gnc-register protocol failed to register with webkit. > >This is a protocol (similar to http or ftp) internal to gnucash and we use it >to tell webkit to open an account register

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Geert Janssens
Unfortunately I don't know the reason of this failure. If the guid does exist, it may be that the gnc-register protocol failed to register with webkit. This is a protocol (similar to http or ftp) internal to gnucash and we use it to tell webkit to open an account register window. There are

Re: [GNC] Import Price from CSV Bug? (Robin Chattopadhyay)

2019-07-07 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 6 juli 2019 23:06:56 CEST schreef Robin Chattopadhyay: > Hi Art- > > I found this Bug that was fixed in 3.6 that is the source of the new > Namespace requirement. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797278 > > You're right, the intro screen to the import does now mention the

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Here is the correct search for missing guids: * 13:01:29 WARN [gnc_load_app_icons()] No icon named 'gnucash-icon' found. Some gui elements may be missing their icons * 13:01:56 ERROR [webkit_load_failed_cb()] WebKit load of gnc-register:acct-guid=c354c0333b962e8e024562e6557942d6# failed due

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
I did the cut and paste from the wrong tests so these DON'T Match -- corrected post will follow. On 7/7/19 12:57 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > Here are the guid's that MATCH: > > > gnucash.trace: > > * 11:13:17 WARN [gnc_load_app_icons()] No icon named > 'gnucash-icon' found. Some gui

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Here are the guid's that MATCH: gnucash.trace: * 11:13:17 WARN [gnc_load_app_icons()] No icon named 'gnucash-icon' found. Some gui elements may be missing their icons * 11:14:23 ERROR [webkit_load_failed_cb()] WebKit load of gnc-register:acct-guid=3bc6835635dca71f318085a1cda73bcc# failed due

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Hello Adrien -- >Do a search in the XML file for the UUIDs that couldn’t be found. (that should >fail) > No -- they ARE found! >Then do a search in the XML for the account names that failed, find their UUIDs >in that section of the XML and you should notice, they don’t match what the

[GNC] GnuCash 3.6 for MacOS 10.15 Catalina

2019-07-07 Thread John Ralls
Apple introduced a new security feature last fall, Notarization [1]. As anyone trying the new Catalina public beta may have discovered, it declines to open signed but not notarized programs downloaded from the web, including GnuCash 3.6-1. I've worked out how to sign GnuCash while still

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
From your efforts so far, I suspect you’re comfortable doing some Find operations in text documents? If so... Test an account or two (but not too many) and note their account names. Check the tracefile again and make note of the new UUIDs that could not be found. Make a copy of your data file

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Hello Adrien -- >Does this error appear for all account registers you try to open from the >report, or just some? > All registers >Does this error also appear when trying to open those same account registers >from *other* reports? > All reports that I have tried (have tried several, but

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
A little more information: gnucash leaves gnucash.trace in /tmp when this problem occurs. gnucash.trace: * 17:27:51 WARN [gnc_load_app_icons()] No icon named 'gnucash-icon' found. Some gui elements may be missing their icons * 17:28:43 ERROR [webkit_load_failed_cb()] WebKit load of

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Does this error appear for all account registers you try to open from the report, or just some? Does this error also appear when trying to open those same account registers from *other* reports? Do some accounts reliably fail on some reports, but work on others and vice versa? My suspicion

Re: [GNC] gnucash 3.6 -- reports -- "URL cannot be shown"

2019-07-07 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
I think I found where the string "URL cannot be shown" is coming from on my system -- libwebkit2gtk-3.0.so.25.10.14 The gnucash README.dependencies says webkit is a required dependency: webkitwebkitgtk-3.0 (Windows, Mac) webkit2gtk-3.0 (Everything Else)

Re: [GNC] Dialog Box Layout and Cursor Displacement

2019-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Are you using MacOS by any chance? There is a bug already filed on something similar for that environment. Retina displays also seem to be involved in some cases. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776602 The workaround for now, seems to be either resize the window manually, or by

[GNC] Dialog Box Layout and Cursor Displacement

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Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions: Why create in advance?

2019-07-07 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is checkbox on the Since Last Run dialog to ‘Review Created Transactions’ that allows you to make adjustments if you wish. They will all appear together Journal style. You could also employ the Budget Module to plan the future transactions instead of creating them in advance, and then

Re: [GNC] Scheduled transactions: Why create in advance?

2019-07-07 Thread Liz
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 02:46:40 -0500 (CDT) AEG via gnucash-user wrote: > This leaves me wondering how/why others use the > "Create in Advance" feature because I'm finding it difficult to > understand why it exists. The answer to all these questions in OpenSource is "because". Someone wanted that

[GNC] Scheduled transactions: Why create in advance?

2019-07-07 Thread AEG via gnucash-user
Having found that the only way to see the future effects of scheduled transactions on my account balances is to "Create in advance", I went through the tedious process of individually setting all 60+ of my scheduled transactions to create 14 days in advance, then later going through the whole