Ah, and I was pointing out that this is exactly what needs to be done -- to add a boolean checkbox to the ui ;) So clearly we're in agreement.
Clearly we're saying the same thing, just talking past each other :( -derek Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Yes, I did mean a user choice box. > > > >>Because on implementation level this kind of flag already exists (and > >>has been used by Lars): If from-date != #f, use it, otherwise don't > >>use it. > > I didn't notice that in the patch. Perhaps I didn't read closely > > enough. But I can't see how this test would work, because there is no > > way to 'unset' the date once you set it. How does the user force > > 'from-date' to be #f to get this functionality? > > > This is precisely the missing point; the user can't choose #f as a > from-date with the current multichoice-option. Either you would need > to add the choice 'No starting date' to the multichoice box. Or you > would need to add another boolean choice box 'Use starting date > yes/no'. I'm just saying that this is not at all complicated, just > somebody would need to do it. And if the option is there i.e. as soon > as a starting data is optional, we can commit this patch to CVS. > > Christian > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel