It's been rumoured that Graham Leggett said: > Effectively in a single transaction you: > > 1) bought 340 guilders and it cost you 100 pounds > 2) paid for a cost of 340 guilders with the guilders you just bought > > So you basically have a normal transfer and a currency trade in one go, > two splits in a single transaction. > > When you balance the accounts, you would just make sure that each > currency balanced separately, so guilders spent (340) - guilders out of > credit card (340) = 0, pounds spent (100) - pounds out of credit card > (100) = 0. Balance... > > Does this make sense? Absolutely, adn that is indeed how the internals work. The problem is that the gui needs to be tweaked a lot to make this work intuitively, and I thought about it just enough to realize that it could be a lot of work to get this done right, work which I can't foresee doing anytime soon. --linas ----- %< -------------------------------------------- >% ------ The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe gnucash-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the body
