On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:49:35PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: | Richard -Gilligan- Uschold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Agreed. I'd like to be able to have gnucash determine the principal | and interest amounts for me, so I don't have to. In particular, I | _always_ pay-down my mortgage. I don't want to have to think about | the amount of principal/interest for each payment; that's what | computers are for! The current SX stuff contains support for ad-hoc variables and simple formulas [+-/*()]; when entered into the credit/debit cells, they will be brought out as vars to be bound in the SX-creation druid. One obvious area of extension to this [the "functionality I wasn't planning on implementing for a while"] was to have support for functions in there.. such that you could say credit:"principal( a, b, c )" or debit:"loan_payment( foo_loan )" or something. However, the UI is currently not quite "right" for even the simple-formula-containing SXes; and there's a whole host of issues [UI, code-wise, &c] related to this... | But I'm not sure how you get one split to automatically create a | second split. I don't think that that's the right way to go; why not just create the final picture, here, as the SX? ...jsled _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
