On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Kevin Hoctor wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chris Larson wrote: > >> I think the biggest point of confusion, for me, other than it >> changing >> without me being aware of it, is this concept of a primary income >> bucket for the cash flow start date. The paragraph above the bucket >> selection dropdown implies that the setting of a starting cash flow >> amount for an income bucket is optional, which makes me think that >> that bucket selection in that window has no effect at all, >> particularly since the amount is empty/$0, since I didn't make use of >> that supposedly optional feature. >> >> If I'm not using that feature, why would the start date be affected >> by >> the merge? > > > Chris, > > Actually, the amount is optional but the cash flow start date is > always attached to a bucket. This will be taken care of in the 1.4.3 > patch so it should be a non-issue. > > Most people will need to use this amount entry. The two main > exceptions are: > > 1. Your starting balance is also your available cash, but this means > you only are dealing with a single account for your spending, or > 2. Your first deposit after your start date is all the cash you have > to spend Ah! Okay, that explains it. Thanks for the explanation. It'd probably be a good idea to reorganize that dialog to move the dropdown above the description of the amount being optional, in case it throws anyone else off. Thanks again, -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
