Re: [GNC] New User Needs Install Help

2018-10-01 Thread John Ralls
n the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, search the Wiki. If you don’t find an answer there or the answer you find isn’t clear, ask here or on IRC. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription pre

[GNC] Flickering tooltips

2018-10-01 Thread John Ralls
Are due to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1371. There's a work-around there, to add gtk-cursor-theme-size = 16 (the actual value probably doesn't matter) to GTK_CONFIG_HOME/settings.ini. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GTK_CONFIG_HOME. Regards,

Re: [GNC] Launching on Mac (was Repeatable Mac crash)

2018-10-01 Thread John Ralls
clever hack. How would it work for installation? IIUC we’d still need the Gnucash.app bundle alongside the Automator script and I suppose the Automator script would also need to know the installed path of the bundle in order to start it from its shell. Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 1, 2018, a

Re: [GNC] V3.3 and Security Prices

2018-10-01 Thread John Ralls
That’s because it’s new in 3.3, part of fixing https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794755 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794755>. I’ll add a bit more explanation of that to the release notes on www.gnucash.org <http://www.gnucash.org/> and Github. Regards, John Rall

Re: [GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

2018-10-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 4:02 AM, Robert Kesterson wrote: > > On 30 Sep 2018, at 9:06, John Ralls wrote: > >>> … > >> Since you’re running two instances of GnuCash it’s likely that the trace >> file will be garbled, so if you could use the followi

Re: [GNC] V3.3 and Security Prices

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
ears. Is Preferences>General Force Prices to display as decimals checked? I intended to make it default to checked but it seems not to be. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefe

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.3 Released

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
ts (96/inch) instead of printer’s points (72/inch). Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 30, 2018, at 4:33 PM, chris graves wrote: > > Damn, you guys have been busy, thanks for all the hard work! > > One thing that popped out right away was that the font size for most aspects > of t

[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.3 Released

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.3, the fourth release of the 3.x stable release series. Changes Between 3.2 and 3.3, the following bugfixes were accomplished: • Bug 771667 - Different warnings when changing reconciled splits vs. splits linked to reconciled splits.

[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.2 Released

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.3, the fourth release of the 3.x stable release series. Changes Between 3.2 and 3.3, the following bugfixes were accomplished: • Bug 771667 - Different warnings when changing reconciled splits vs. splits linked to reconciled splits.

Re: [GNC] can Gnucash provide a list of unreconciled cheques?

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
ure out some other way to separate checks from everything else. Note that if you use find from the Accounts page you'll be searching all accounts; if you do so from a register page you'll be searching only the corresponding account. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
gt;> Michael >> > > I found it easier to just navigate to the file with the file explorer > (at least on Linux) and double click on the file. GnuCash then launches > and opens that file. That doesn't work on Macs. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] moving multiple transactions

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
ind it easiest if you can create a find query that gets them all into a journal register. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/m

Re: [GNC] compiling 3.2 on linux (ubuntu)

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
inding gdk/gdk.h. This > is provided from two packages, libgtk-3-dev and libgtk2.0-dev. But > installing those doesn't change the error. (I manually confirm gdk.h is > present: /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h.) > > Thinking this was a caching problem, I removed and recreated > ./

Re: [GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
separate trace file in your user directory that you can also attach to the bug report. You could even add the file path for the file you really want to open to the end of that and save yourself the “can’t get the lock” drill. Regards, John Ralls ___

Re: [GNC] Mojave compatibility

2018-09-30 Thread John Ralls
But see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867>. There’s apparently a problem with Dark Mode on some computers. I haven’t yet been able to reproduce it. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 29, 2018, at 9:37 PM, David Reiser via gnu

Re: [GNC] Bug

2018-09-26 Thread John Ralls
se in French). Do the formulas in question contain only numbers? What version of GnuCash is this? Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.g

Re: [GNC] Gnucash won't open

2018-09-23 Thread John Ralls
" if you have “display extensions” in Finder’s View Options turned off) from inside the disk image that you want in Applications. Once you’ve cleaned that up you’ll need to remove the GnuCash item from your dock and re-add it. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 22, 2018, at 6:40 PM, Alison Fo

Re: [GNC] Gnucash won't open

2018-09-22 Thread John Ralls
So it launches from the command line but not from Finder? That's not good. Please run Applications:Utilities:Console and select "User Reports" in the sidebar and see if there are any reports whose name begins with "Gnucash". Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 22, 2018, a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash won't open

2018-09-22 Thread John Ralls
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. The "reply all" button works well for this. You need to put a space between the file name and the option, i.e ".../Gnucash --debug". Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 22, 2018, at 5:49 PM, Alison Fox wrote: > > Hi a

Re: [GNC] Gnucash won't open

2018-09-22 Thread John Ralls
rminal window; it will also write a much larger trace file that might shed some light on the problem. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists

Re: [GNC] Gnucash git build failure

2018-09-22 Thread John Ralls
eFiles/gncmod-gnome-utils.dir/all] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/gnucash-git/src/gnucash-git/build' > make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2 Looks like it also upgraded gcc and the latest gcc has a new warning. I suggest that you add -Wno-stringop-truncation to CMAKE

Re: [GNC] Problem opening Gnucash with High Sierra

2018-09-21 Thread John Ralls
s, the crash report (right click, pick “Reveal in Finder” to locate it) and the trace file. Regards, John Ralls [1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trace_file <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trace_file> ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-19 Thread John Ralls
rdware support for BCD, though it’s not supported in any language I’d want to use. (Ada, anyone?) Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 19, 2018, at 8:16 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > correction: floating point fails with irrational numbers too. > > David C > > On Wed,

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-19 Thread John Ralls
t few languages and no current hardware support that directly (C/C++ doesn’t) and when I tested a couple of BCD libraries in 2014 at Christian Stimming’s prompting I found them to be unnacceptably slow. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:36 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > J

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
, the most notable being interest/time-value-of-money calculations because they require exponentiation and there isn’t yet a rational exponentiation operator in GnuCash. I’ve started writing one, but set it aside to deal with more pressing bugs. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 18, 2018, at 4:22

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
d the amount or the value to be a legal value and the price will get recalculated accordingly. The alternative would be to refuse to accept the split and require that you figure out the correct price yourself, which seems a bit cumbersome. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] Compiling and Installing Gnucash 2.6.12

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
Is /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf? Have you run ldconfig since building GnuCash? Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 16, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: > > here is the file/files in question > > paul@paul-Satellite-S855:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l libgnc-gnome* > -rwx

Re: [GNC] Another sort field like 'Class' in Quicken?

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
that objection. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 16, 2018, at 8:19 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Search the list archives for "Tags". > SIt's an oft requested feature. > Patches welcome. > > -derek > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. &

Re: [GNC] Online Price Retrieval Fails

2018-09-15 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 15, 2018, at 3:46 PM, nvsoar wrote: > > On 09/06/18 07:12, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 5, 2018, at 8:49 PM, nvsoar >> <mailto:nvs...@charter.net>> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/05/18 17:27, John Ralls wrote: &

Re: [GNC] problem setting the price of a share

2018-09-15 Thread John Ralls
currencies). E.g., you can’t buy 100 shares at $1.23456 because $123.456 is nonsensical: It’s either $123.45 or $123.46. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 15, 2018, at 7:25 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > As I stated in my reply, enter the number of shares and total amount, Skip > the pri

Re: [GNC] - File Path for associated files

2018-09-12 Thread John Ralls
LibreOffice is a word processor with its own XML features. It very likely didn’t preserve GnuCash’s XML but instead substituted its own. Try again using a plain text editor like vi, vim, emacs, etc. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 12, 2018, at 4:42 AM, John Sears via gnucash-user >

Re: [GNC] Saving in GnuCash painfully slow: what can I do?

2018-09-08 Thread John Ralls
The files-in-the-directory hypothesis was on the same bug report, but seemed to affect only a few of the people who responded. GnuCash doesn’t do anything that low-level. It’s most likely to do with the way Cairo handles HiDPI on Windows. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 8, 2018, at 7:23

Re: [GNC] Saving in GnuCash painfully slow: what can I do?

2018-09-08 Thread John Ralls
10 Pro build 1803 on Surface Pro > See https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804 where several users have found it to be related to redrawing the status bar on HiDPI screens with scaling set to something other than System. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] cannot export invoice with my custom stylesheet and a return, (negative entry line item), but works with default stylesheet

2018-09-07 Thread John Ralls
rts in your GNC_DOT_DIR, which for 2.6.x will be in $HOME/.gnucash (except on MacOS where it will be $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash). Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription prefe

Re: [GNC] Currency exchange rates retrieval with GC 3.2

2018-09-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 7, 2018, at 4:12 AM, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > Am 06.09.2018 21:16, schrieb John Ralls: > >> On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Manfred Usselmann > <mailto:manf...@usselmann.de>> wrote: >> Am 06.09.2018 16:33, schrieb John Ralls: >> >&

Re: [GNC] Load another QIF file causes "that file already loaded" dialog.

2018-09-07 Thread John Ralls
ve previously > loaded which then causes the warning dialog. Hopefully it's a fairly minor > thing to clear the file picker dialog when you click "Load *another* file" > and we can avoid this? > > Should I report as a bug? Yes, please. We’ll forget otherwise.

Re: [GNC] Currency exchange rates retrieval with GC 3.2

2018-09-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > > Am 06.09.2018 16:33, schrieb John Ralls: > >> >> >>> On Sep 6, 2018, at 12:15 AM, Manfred Usselmann >> <mailto:manf...@usselmann.de>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>

Re: [GNC] Currency exchange rates retrieval with GC 3.2

2018-09-06 Thread John Ralls
price retrieval work in GnuCash? I created a CHFEUR=X security, set it to retrieve quotes from Alphavantage, and successfully retrieved the price in GnuCash. Note, however, that it’s not a meaningful value: CHFEUR=X retrieves the price in EUR of 1CHF, but Finance::Quote treats it

Re: [GNC] Online Price Retrieval Fails

2018-09-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 8:49 PM, nvsoar wrote: > > On 09/05/18 17:27, John Ralls wrote: >> >>> On Sep 5, 2018, at 12:26 PM, nvsoar wrote: >>> >>> Running Win 10 - Install online price retrieval (GnuCash version 2.6.21) >>> reports DateManip c

Re: [GNC] Negative assets!

2018-09-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 5:51 PM, Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi > wrote: > > On 09/06/2018 03:25 AM, John Ralls wrote: >> That’s Assets:Current Assets on the Accounts page, right? Not an entry in >> the summary bar at the bottom of the page? > YES; It's an accou

Re: [GNC] Online Price Retrieval Fails

2018-09-05 Thread John Ralls
ny key to continue . . . > > Have know idea for the meaning of @INC, or where to put the Date::Manip > module. > > Same fault for GnuCash version 2.6.17 > Run the Online Price Retrieval Setup program. Date::Manip is a required perl module. Regards, John Ralls ___

Re: [GNC] Negative assets!

2018-09-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi > wrote: > > On 09/05/2018 06:06 PM, Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi wrote: >> On 09/04/2018 05:55 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>> When you deleted the accounts, what did you tell GnuCash to do with the >>> trans

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Issue

2018-09-05 Thread John Ralls
there, otherwise the report wouldn’t have worked at all. The default price source also changed in there somewhere so make sure that it’s Average Cost. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscripti

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Issue

2018-09-04 Thread John Ralls
software location). > > The eguile version is up one level from there. You may also want files from .../report/report-system, in particular commodity-utilities.scm. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To u

Re: [GNC] Negative assets!

2018-09-04 Thread John Ralls
accounts defined as "Asset" account type. > When you deleted the accounts, what did you tell GnuCash to do with the transactions? Do you have any Imbalance-XXX accounts? Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-us

Re: [GNC] Gnucash Flatpak 3.2 Mysql issue

2018-09-04 Thread John Ralls
would like me to try? We do use perl only for F::Q, and that check is the first part of seeing if F::Q is available. We should probably reduce it to a PINFO, it confuses a lot of users. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2: Trial Balance Report

2018-09-03 Thread John Ralls
cash/maint/gnucash/report/report-system/html-utilities.scm, find it in your installation (it's in share/gnucash/scm) and replace it with the newly downloaded one. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 3, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Alex via gnucash-user > wrote: > > If i go down the nightly

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2: Trial Balance Report

2018-09-03 Thread John Ralls
t; >> An error occurred while running the report. >> > has anyone else encountered this? Look in the trace file [1] for the actual error. I fixed a couple of divide-by-zero problems in the asset value code last week, so it might be from one of those. Regards, John Ralls

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

2018-09-03 Thread John Ralls
stigation by opening the file with TextWrangler and > discovered that if I did a 'save as' using UTF-8 and the 'Unix LF' option, > for line breaks, then everything was fine. Bit of a messy workaround but > may help someone :-). Since TextWrangler isn’t part of Mac

Re: [GNC] Get Transaction issue

2018-09-02 Thread John Ralls
; you’ll need to run Notepad “as administrator” to do so. The other challenge will be to find where the log files go since “/tmp” isn’t meaningful on Windows. Based on the GnuCash trace file I’d look first in $HOME\AppData\Local\Temp, where $HOME means your user directory. Regards, John Ralls &g

Re: [GNC] Compiling 2.6.12

2018-09-01 Thread John Ralls
Q#Q:_I_heard_it_is_too_hard_to_compile_GnuCash.21>. That trick doesn’t quite work for GnuCash3 on Debian/Ubuntu unless you’re running Sid (aka unstable), but it works fine on GnuCash2. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 1, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: > > I did read the guidance ini

Re: [GNC] trouble compiling 3.2 release

2018-09-01 Thread John Ralls
Well, then delete all of the directories involved and start over, following the directions *to the letter*. Deviate at all and you’re on your own. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 1, 2018, at 8:27 PM, John Griessen wrote: > > I followed the directions for debian somehwat. > > I

Re: [GNC] Crash when saving mysql to xml

2018-08-29 Thread John Ralls
in your Tracefile I suppose that you already ran gnucash --debug. You can get more detail still (though unfortunately not a lot more, there aren’t a lot of DEBUG statements in the XML backend) with gnucash --log gnc.backend.xml=debug that might provide some specifics indicating what object c

Re: [GNC] Balance Sheet Report Broken

2018-08-29 Thread John Ralls
out how to migrate to > later versions of gnucash. Don’t jump too fast, that’s https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368>, or rather it’s a side effect of my misunderstanding the problem and making a bad fix. The old average cost behav

Re: [GNC] Unable to open new version

2018-08-28 Thread John Ralls
if your data file is foo.gnucash the backups will be named like foo.gnucash.20180826112319.gnucash) and click the “open” button on the lower right corner of the file chooser. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org T

Re: [GNC] macOS gnc 3.2

2018-08-27 Thread John Ralls
: chmod a-w ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/accelerator-map Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 27, 2018, at 7:27 PM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Adrien, > > It’s been going on a while, and it’s still there. I am using 2.6.19 and > 3.1.2. It has somethin

Re: [GNC] macOS gnc 3.2

2018-08-27 Thread John Ralls
ng as you don't use any of the new 3.2 features that affect the data file you can switch back and forth at will. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 27, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Keith Bellairs wrote: > > After 20 years on a linux desktop, I find myself in an iMac. I have gnc > 2.6.21 ru

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 3.2 flatpak file open issue

2018-08-26 Thread John Ralls
Colin, Did you try `--share=network`? http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html <http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html> Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 26, 2018, at 3:22 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > Thanks for working that

Re: [GNC] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

2018-08-25 Thread John Ralls
the Apache Foundation umbrella and uses the Apache license. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 25, 2018, at 11:41 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2018, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote: > >> thank you for the extended explanation! >> I think I would end to use

Re: [GNC] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

2018-08-25 Thread John Ralls
iour? No. GnuCash is an accounting program, not a personal finance management program. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

2018-08-24 Thread John Ralls
r would it not? Maybe, though I suspect it’s a bug in Excel. Microsoft is well known for not really understanding UTF-8, and there’s always the possibility that Excel tried to write UTF-8 and Windows gratuitously transcoded it to the locale’s codepage. Regards, John Ralls ___

Re: [GNC] GC 3.2 Import Price File CSV

2018-08-24 Thread John Ralls
eally not a stray space encoding is the only possible source of the mismatch. That shouldn’t be possible as all the code points in “ABF.L” are in the 0x20-0x7f range that are the same for all encodings, but just to be sure try selecting “Western:English(ASCII)” in the encoding list

Re: [GNC] Balsheet-eg.scm problem

2018-08-23 Thread John Ralls
dular ("block-oriented") languages like Pascal, HP-SPL, and C. That said, if you want to write reports that are internal to GnuCash you've got to learn Scheme. If you're willing to use a SQL backend you can query the database and use any language you like and can find a comp

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3 in the Debian / Ubuntu pipeline?

2018-08-22 Thread John Ralls
!= easy. Writing a GUI is a lot of work, and aside from the general design one must pretty much start from scratch every time. I don’t anticipate that core GnuCash will ever provide multiple GUI toolkit implementations. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-u

Re: [GNC] Cannot change preferences

2018-08-22 Thread John Ralls
Frank, You’ve misunderstood the thread: It’s about a deficiency in the dependencies of the Debian package manager, not anything to do with GnuCash’s build requirements. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > From https://github

Re: [GNC] [Gnucash-nl] FW: GnuCah reageert niet

2018-08-19 Thread John Ralls
Again, reply to the list, not to me. This may be a known problem. Is the long wait for displaying a report in the GnuCash window or for printing an already displayed report onto paper? Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 19, 2018, at 2:14 AM, Jannie Bos - Ploeg wrote: > > I do nothi

Re: [GNC] [Gnucash-nl] FW: GnuCah reageert niet

2018-08-18 Thread John Ralls
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. “Reply All” works well for this. OK. What happens if you dismiss the dialog? Does GnuCash remain unresponsive? Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 18, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Jannie Bos - Ploeg wrote: > > It is saying: GnuCash doesn't respon

Re: [GNC] [Gnucash-nl] FW: GnuCah reageert niet

2018-08-18 Thread John Ralls
Is GnuCash crashing with a Windows dialog box saying that it has quit, or is it just hanging up? Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 17, 2018, at 7:10 AM, Jannie Bos - Ploeg wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, I can print from other programs. This problem happens only when I try > to pr

Re: [GNC] Column widths again

2018-08-17 Thread John Ralls
rate" field is probably "price" on a stock/mutual fund register, which has two more columns than the other registers. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 17, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Graham Balin wrote: > > Sorry guys if there is any misunderstanding here. There is no account fiel

Re: [GNC] GnuCash in Spanish

2018-08-16 Thread John Ralls
x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment. You can open it in Notepad (be sure to right click and select "Run as Administrator" to start it). Find the lines beginning with LANG and LANGUAGE and make sure that they both have '#' at the beginning of the line to comment them out. Regards

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-08-16 Thread John Ralls
Thanks, but please remember to reply to the list, especially in this case since it's Geert who was looking into the translated strings. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 16, 2018, at 8:08 AM, Roger Oliver wrote: > > 2.6.18. Thanks for asking. 😊 > > -Original Message

Re: [GNC] Disconnect between balance on client list and account statement

2018-08-16 Thread John Ralls
ot; which translates as "Resumen Cliente". >> >> Calendario de cobros pendientes = Receivable aging > > "Receivable Aging" = "Calendario de Recibes Pendientes". > > Again I don't find "Calendario de cobros pendientes" in gnu

Re: [GNC] File Format Documentation (Bug 777893)

2018-08-15 Thread John Ralls
would enhance the user experience. The user does see XML (or SQLite3, MySQL, or PostgresQL) in the Save As dialog, so the documentation should explain the pros and cons of each as David proposes. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing li

Re: [GNC] gnucash @ Mac OS annoyances

2018-08-15 Thread John Ralls
quite annoying. Are there solutions or at > least workarounds for this? > > Should I file bug reports? The first two are the same and already reported as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [GNC] Unable to save to database. Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24)

2018-08-13 Thread John Ralls
ting stock & > share prices for the last few days no problem, I can see the new prices > in the prices editor and with a mysql session I can read them. > > Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem is, or more > importantly how to fix it ? Look in the trace f

Re: [GNC] Reconciliation being undone without warning

2018-08-12 Thread John Ralls
"changing a reconciled transaction" warning box unless one has turned it off. Use Actions>Reset Warnings for a list of the warning boxes one has disabled and the opportunity to re-enable them. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 12, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Ronal B Morse wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 3.2

2018-08-12 Thread John Ralls
. Where can I find > other business modules? Temporarily set the locale for the country where you need the account structure. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings>. Regards, John Ralls __

Re: [GNC] Error in Finance:Quote

2018-08-12 Thread John Ralls
If you have only one currency in your book then GnuCash will never look for an exchange rate, so make sure that your book’s default currency and the currencies of all non-stock/mutual fund accounts are the same. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 11, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Shokster wrote: > &g

Re: [GNC] Error in Finance:Quote

2018-08-11 Thread John Ralls
ldn't be relevant to this case? > > Currently, I work with Excel, and will port my accounts to GnuCash if the > price editor can import mutual fund NAV's. The shift to Alphavantage *is* relevant in this case because it’s now where F::Q gets currency exchange rates, replacing

Re: [GNC] ver 3.2 Fails to Display Graphics in "Tutorial and Concepts Guide" (main help file)

2018-08-09 Thread John Ralls
No, that's a different (and fixed) problem. This problem is that the figures aren't getting included in the Windows "compiled html" help files because the figures directory isn't in the build directory and the image hrefs are relative. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug

Re: [GNC] Matching/reconciling transfers from different banks

2018-08-09 Thread John Ralls
coming metaphorical, like “dialing” a “phone”. When everything’s done there shouldn’t be any imbalances. If you transfer 1000 from bank a to bank b either you end up with 1000 in bank b or you book any fees that the banks charge for the transfer to an expense account. Regards, John Ralls __

Re: [GNC] Matching/reconciling transfers from different banks

2018-08-08 Thread John Ralls
o track the exact balances in the bank accounts. In a situation like that you can create a “suspense” account. When the money leaves Bank A you credit Bank A and debit the suspense account, and when it turns up in Bank B you credit the suspense account and debit Bank B. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] autocomplete not working in 3.2

2018-08-07 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 7, 2018, at 8:34 AM, GeoffatMM via gnucash-user > wrote: > > John Ralls, I can confirm that renaming the file reverts Gnucash to "normal" > autofill behaviour. > > What is this file for and should I need it for anything assuming I am > working i

Re: [GNC] Stange Mac OS issues (update)

2018-08-06 Thread John Ralls
Nike, Thanks for the follow-up. Another way that MacOS can confuse Gtk’s understanding of the coordinate system. I’ll post a remark about it on the Gtk issue. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 6, 2018, at 4:07 PM, V. Vatsal wrote: > > Hi John, > > I found the source of the probl

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote: CPAN or GitHub?

2018-08-06 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 2, 2018, at 7:19 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Aug 2, 2018, at 5:59 AM, Daniel Rosenberg wrote: >> >> I recently discovered that there is a more up to date version of >> Finance::Quote on GitHub than on CPAN (last update made in november

Re: [GNC] Change text color

2018-08-06 Thread John Ralls
Adrien, IIUC mailman insists that attachments be at the end of the message, not inlined. Since you’re top-posting that means after all of the quoted text, not just after your post. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 6, 2018, at 2:12 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > I’m not sure. I

Re: [GNC] Finance : Quote not working

2018-08-06 Thread John Ralls
ey. As for GnuCash’s difficulties, Alphavantage has increased the request time from 1 per second to 1 per 20 seconds. There are commits addressing this in Finance::Quote’s Github repository, so we’re just waiting for Erik Colson to do a release so that everyone can use them. Regards, Jo

Re: [GNC] Stange Mac OS issues (update)

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
Interesting and a bit strange. Are there any other differences between the two machines other than model? Grasping at straws, can you set up a new user on the 13” MBA and see if running GnuCash as that user changes anything? Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 4, 2018, at 8:30 PM, V. Vatsal wr

Re: [GNC] Stange Mac OS issues (update)

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 4, 2018, at 5:23 PM, V. Vatsal via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is an update to my earlier post reporting malfunction of the mouse > pointer under the current version of Mac OS, > > John Ralls responded that it was connected with Mac OS sys

Re: [GNC] Cannot save custom checks

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
is set to English (United States). > > Mike > > From: John Ralls > Sent: Saturday, August 4, 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: [GNC] Cannot save custom checks > To: Mike stagl > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > > On Aug 4, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Mike stagl wrote: > > My us

Re: [GNC] Compile of 3.2 fails

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
Do sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/gnucash sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libgnc* clean your build directory and try again. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 4, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Michael via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Geert, Thanks for the reply. type gnucash gives /usr/local/bin/gnucash,

Re: [GNC] Cannot save custom checks

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
7;s desktop and encountered the same error. My primary drive is my F: > drive. OK, normal enough. Does %APPDATA%\GnuCash exist and is it populated? What are your localization settings? Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash

Re: [GNC] Cannot save custom checks

2018-08-04 Thread John Ralls
nks to all the contributors, “X in a box” is Windows’s way of indicating a character for which the current font doesn’t have a glyph. Normally one would expect “C:” beginning the user directory path, so perhaps your user directories are on a network share with non-ASCII characters in the na

Re: [GNC] Hebrew

2018-08-03 Thread John Ralls
g a new version of each one so you’ll need to spend some time learning Docbook4 XML markup. There’s information about that as well in the wiki translation page. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update

Re: [GNC] When changing to different version of GNUcash what should be done with data base or files?

2018-08-03 Thread John Ralls
ported operating system’s conventions. Another user has reported that Portable hasn’t made the corresponding adjustments and so 3.x is apparently somewhat broken with Portable. You might search the mailing list archives for details. Regards, John Ralls _

Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] Wanted - translators, follow up

2018-08-02 Thread John Ralls
Dmitry, Totally up to you. It's not a big deal for us to merge one, especially if they're small. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 2, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Di Mang wrote: > > Hi John und Geert, > > I have a general question about updating the translations. Sometimes,

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote: CPAN or GitHub?

2018-08-02 Thread John Ralls
or distributing perl packages. You can clone the repository and build Finance Quote by hand if you’re comfortable with the Perl build system. Otherwise you just have to wait for Erik to do a release. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing li

Re: [GNC] Change text color

2018-08-01 Thread John Ralls
attribute, but with HTML one can specify multiple arguments of decreasing specificity and the render engine will find a “best fit”. With Gtk you specify exactly one and either it’s available and used or it’s not available and Gtk falls back on its default. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 1, 2

Re: [GNC] Strange Mac OS interface problem

2018-08-01 Thread John Ralls
ew-in-Sierra application window tab feature messes up Gtk’s understanding of mouse coordinates. Nike, Are you using MacOS-level tabs? If so, turn them off. Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 1, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Forgot to mention, If I don’t see any devs chi

Re: [GNC] Get Quote is Not Working?

2018-08-01 Thread John Ralls
You’ll need to print to stderr or maybe even open a file and print there. F::Q writes its results to stdout and GnuCash can’t parse the results if they’re mixed with your diagnostics. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 31, 2018, at 10:16 PM, Ethan Swint wrote: > > I'm also having tr

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