On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:08:26PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: | - The first box is where I'm supposed to specify an Account. Which account is | supposed to go here? The loan account, or the account from which the loan | gets paid? I'm gonna assume it's the loan account.
Yes, the liability/loan account. I've changed the label as such in the Druid. | - Can periods remaining be automagically calculated based on Start Date and | Length? Ahh, probly not worth it... Perhaps; it'd be nice, but it's pretty much at the bottom of the to-do list ATM. :) | - In the Repayment dialog, would it be possible to create an account? Not a | big deal, but I got half-way thru and decided I wanted to set up an Escrow | account. Easy Enough to do from outside the druid, but it would've been | convenient to just select "New" when assigning an account to the Escrow. Yes, it should be possible. The combo box you're using is a Brand New Widget I created yesterday ... I spent a lot of time attempting to get autocompletion working. The autocompletion works, but it's apparently impossible in GTK <= 1.2.10 to programatically select a region of text [like the autocompleted part], such that it should work like the register's autocompletion. Now, I think The Right Thing might be to have -- instead of a combo box -- a modal popup of the existing account-selection tree. Or, maybe, just a "New" button. Both, however, are fairly low on the prio list ATM; as you say: easy enough to do outside the Druid. ;) | - It seems that the druid should calculate the payment amount based on the | input of the loan amount, the interest rate, and the term. Will it? Yes; see src/scm/fin.scm. :) The facility to hook these up to the template transaction credit/debit cells is there ... but a few more things need to be hooked up before it will work. But that's the idea. As for it displaying them in the druid... well, I think the formulae would be put into any "Amount:" entries, but perhaps there's room for an Amortization Table page... would this be useful? | - Perhaps the Repayment dialog should display (in a non-editable format) the | calculated loan payment amount (principal and interest only), and then a | field for each amount checked in the Options dialog. All options with "via | Escow account" selected, could be accounted for with one entry field, an | Escrow amount. If "via Escrow account" isn't selected, the user could be Hmmm... having just one page of amount information, then. I like this, though I have to see where it'll fit in. But it does put all the relevant information in one place. I still need to decide what the pre-creation "review" page looks like, and perhaps this is a large chunk of it. | prompted for amounts for each individual field. A final calulated field would | then be the Total Payment amount, which can only be changed by changing the | Esrow amount, or the other editable fields in the Repayment dialog (based on | select options). There was talk about this earlier. While it will be true for a lot of people that the Repayment is just the sum of the other splits, a lot of people just pay something "Fixed" per month [perhaps something that's calculated and the fudged by their bank, but otherwise a set dollar amount]. So it will need to be edited in some cases by the user. | Something like (assuming all options are selected): [deletia] | if Taxes and Insurance have "via Escrow account" selected, then it becomes: [deletia] | if only Taxes and Insurance are selected, and both have "via Escrow account" | selected, then it becomes: [deletia] I'll look at all this again soon, but it looks pretty reasonable. | Well, those are my first comments. I hope you find *something* useful there. | Looking forward to seeing the completed druid sometime soon... It's looking | real promising! Thanks. And thanks for the feedback. I hope to have it creating the relevant SXes by the end of the weekend, and hope to get more feedback after then. | Regards, | Tim ...jsled -- http://www.asynchronous.org - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}` jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ:4983267, {AIM,YIM}:joshsled _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
