On Tue, 09 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that Bryan Larsen said:
> >
> > > 2. What is the current state of progress?
> >
> > the todo list looks like:
> >
> > ;; TODO
> > ;; "upcoming/overdue bills" report
>
> Any sort of cleverness here, or will you simply look at the system
> clock when gnucash is started up ... ?
I hadn't planned on hooking into the start up, just generating a report when
the user asks for one.
>
> > ;; save/load budget
>
> How do you plan to store the data? Any ideas yet? In a separate file?
> Do you have to store pointers to any existing transactions? Or have you
> discovred a way of wedging this into the current file format (possibly
> slightly modified?)
It'll be stored in a seperate file in S-expression format when I get told where
to put the file. Somebody is working on this, i forget who.
>
> > ;; graph budget progress
>
> when you go to graph budget progress, you will need to compute the data
> to graph. Is this going to be a module in the engine, or will it be
> some scheme snippet? More importantly, *should* it be in the engine?
Not a problem. The total at the bottom of the budget report is the number that
we graph. I'll just generate the equivalent of several reports over different
time periods and graph that
Bryan
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Phone: 306 664 2087 x29. Fax: 306 664 4446
Analog Design Automation: Analog Circuit Synthesis? Problem Solved.
