Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> Hi Herbert, are you getting the emails I send to you?
>
> thanks,
> dave
Hi Dave!
Sorry for not answering so long. I got your emails.
I vist my parents at the moment (this is kind of a
vacation and will last a couple of weeks). Unfortunetly
I have to use my old computer here, Pentium 90, 24 MB
memory, this box is incredibly sloooow :-(. And I had to
install SuSE 6.4 and my internet dialup and GnuCash and...
the last week. I will only read mails twice a week or so.
But now to your questions:
currency transfer gui: If you want to do gui work, go ahead.
I'm not very familiar with gnome and all the scheme stuff
in GnuCash (I bought "Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Progams" last week to improve this...).
What I want to do first is to generalize the EURO code.
Let me briefly explain what I think how currency transfers should
work:
First: I do not really like the concept of currency accounts. They
are good if you do currency trading like stock trading, but if
you occasionally pay a bill in a foreign currency they are a pain.
You should be able to transfer directly from/to accounts with different
currencies, but I am not sure if the engine or the data format
can support this yet.
If you transfer to an account with different currency a popup window
should ask the user the exchange rate or the amount in the other
currency and compute the exchange rate. The exchange rates should
be stored, so that GnuCash could make a proposal for the exchange
rate the next time such a transfer is entered; we could use this
stored rates for the Net Value, Profit/Loss computations in the
status line. Moreover the rate could be retrieved form the internet.
Please comment.
find transaction bug: I did not get your request for a backtrace.
I belive I sent you the guile backtrace with the bug report, didn't I?
Do you want a gdb backtrace? If so, could you give me a brief
introduction to gdb? I just verified that I can reproduce the bug
with my new SuSE 6.4 installation.
Herbert.
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