Herbert Thoma writes:
> 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.
No problem, I just wanted to make sure my emails were
getting to you.
> 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.
This is not possible with the current engine.
> 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.
Whether we use an interim currency account or not, the GUI should make
things easier. For example, the GUI could prompt the user to select
the currency account and, eventually, remember the last one used
for a particular currency.
Getting currency prices from the internet would be nice, too.
> 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.
Yes, I meant a gdb backtrace. Here's how to get a backtrace with gdb.
gdb /usr/bin/gnucash (or wherever you have it installed)
(the following commands are at the gdb prompt)
r <filename of a gnucash database file that will exhibit the bug>
(now the program will run. Do whatever you need in order to get the crash,
and you will get another gdb prompt)
bt (short for backtrace)
(that will print the backtrace to standard out)
thanks,
dave
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