I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Kaffanke
Hi there! I'd like to create an applet or notification for gnucash. (Like we have for tomboy.) This should do only a few things: - Show the balance of a few choosend accounts, - Show the actual situation of the finance status, the data we see at the bottom in the accounts view - Simple add a

html export on Windows

2007-06-25 Thread Davide Imbeni
Hi, I noticed that html export only works for text only reports(e.g. balance), at least on my machine (Windows 2000 SP 4, Gnucash 2.1.4 - r16170) When I try to export something with pictures and colors (e.g. a barchart), all I get is the empty html container !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD

Re: html export on Windows

2007-06-25 Thread Christian Stimming
Quoting Davide Imbeni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that html export only works for text only reports(e.g. balance), at least on my machine (Windows 2000 SP 4, Gnucash 2.1.4 - r16170) This is a known problem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168803 Exporting of the graphical reports

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Christian Stimming
Hi Martin, Quoting Martin Kaffanke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to create an applet or notification for gnucash. (Like we have for tomboy.) interesting plan. I'm afraid our answers won't make you really happy, but I'd like to explain the technical conditions concerning a gnucash applet.

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Kaffanke
Hi Christian! First of all, you need to keep in mind that gnucash works only on a single data file as storage mechanism. So if an applet would like to do something with that data file (either retrieve information or adding new transactions), the data file cannot be used by another

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Josh Sled
Martin Kaffanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The design of gnucash makes me not to extend gnucash. For that what you [...] What do you think about splitting gnucash into an frontend and a backend (data-server)? I suggest you would find it nice, but there aren't any people which have time for

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Martin Kaffanke: Your suggestions are really good. But I'm not sure if I really like it that way. There must be also a way to make the applet just bring the gnucash window into the front if the user wants to insert any transaction. This

Re: Generic importer:QIF

2007-06-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Chintan Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for that information. I could not find the declaration of Transaction structure(or its un-typedefed form) per say but from the functions in the file, could gather the variable types present. Like I said, src/engine/Transaction* -- the structure

Re: r16208 - gnucash/branches/csv-import/src/import-export/csv - Added a bunch of comments to gnc-csv-import.c.

2007-06-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + GtkTreeView* treeview; /* The treeview containing the data */ + GtkTreeView* ctreeview; /* The treeview containing the column types */ + GtkCheckButton* sep_buttons[SEP_NUM_OF_TYPES]; /* Checkbuttons for common separators */ + GtkCheckButton*

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Kaffanke
On mån, 2007-06-25 at 17:12 +0200, Andreas Köhler wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Martin Kaffanke: Your suggestions are really good. But I'm not sure if I really like it that way. There must be also a way to make the applet just bring the gnucash window into

Re: r16201 - gnucash/trunk/lib/libqof/qof - Return NULL on qof_instance_get_guid(NULL) again, #448853.

2007-06-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Andreas Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Author: andi5 Date: 2007-06-22 13:42:52 -0400 (Fri, 22 Jun 2007) New Revision: 16201 Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16201 Modified: gnucash/trunk/lib/libqof/qof/qofinstance.c Log: Return NULL on qof_instance_get_guid(NULL) again,

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Derek Atkins
Martin Kaffanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On mån, 2007-06-25 at 17:12 +0200, Andreas Köhler wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Martin Kaffanke: Your suggestions are really good. But I'm not sure if I really like it that way. There must be also a way to make the

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread warlord
Don't forget to CC to gnucash-devel on your replies Quoting Martin Kaffanke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On mån, 2007-06-25 at 12:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: 1) Start gnucash (maybe as part of Gnome Session) 2) Wait for First Start (only at gnome session start). 3) Gnucash puts an icon in

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Martin Kaffanke
On mån, 2007-06-25 at 14:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget to CC to gnucash-devel on your replies Sorry, I noted it as soon as the email was sent. Well, it would require work to integrate into gnome-session, get the icon, do the hide vs. exit, and handle graceful shutdown..

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread warlord
Quoting Martin Kaffanke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On mån, 2007-06-25 at 14:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget to CC to gnucash-devel on your replies Sorry, I noted it as soon as the email was sent. Well, it would require work to integrate into gnome-session, get the icon, do the

Re: I'd like to create an applet for gnucash

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: But if gnucash was ALWAYS RUNNING, then what's the difference? in other words, instead of: 1) Start gnucash 2) Wait for it to start 3) Enter a couple transactions 4) Save 5) Exit gnucash 6) Repeat from #1 Why not: 1)

Re: Release date 2.2.0? Another release candidate before that?

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 11:28 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins: Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Should we have another release candidate version (2.1.5) next weekend? That would result in the final 2.2.0 around July 15th. I think (at

Re: Release date 2.2.0? Another release candidate before that?

2007-06-25 Thread Nathan Buchanan
On 6/25/07, Andreas Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 11:28 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins: Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Should we have another release candidate version (2.1.5) next weekend? That would

Re: Release date 2.2.0? Another release candidate before that?

2007-06-25 Thread Chris Lyttle
I also would prefer to release on thursday or friday due to my wanting to go away next weekend. To me pushing out the stable release is preferable too as there is a lot more work creating announcements. I dont like the idea of doing announcements mid-week as this is quite difficult to me due