Re: [GNC-dev] Normalizing live data

2019-02-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 04:30:30PM +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zaterdag 2 februari 2019 14:31:43 CET schreef Hendrik Boom: > > > On 2/1/19 5:36 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote: > > > > [2] as long as the transaction stream balances the actual numb

[GNC-dev] Normalizing live data

2019-02-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
> On 2/1/19 5:36 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote: > > > > [2] as long as the transaction stream balances the actual numbers > > don't matter (their will be occasions where the numbers are important > > but these tend to be number extremes related to commodities rather > > than anyone using gnc to

Re: gnucash-devel Digest, Vol 142, Issue 14

2015-01-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:00:01PM -0500, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: ... That sounds great, with one question: Are you able to write proper DocBook patches? That was the big blocker to getting documentation contributions the last time it came up here, and it's still unresolved

Re: Recommend IDE for coding in C -- some historical context

2013-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:00 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Paul, As should be clear from the other responses, there's no clear if you work in C/C++, then this is the IDE you should use. Both languages have been around for a very long time (C since the early 1970's, C++ since the mid 1980's),

Re: Recommend IDE for coding in C -- some historical context

2013-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:00 -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: Paul, It should be noted that in Linux/Unix, all the development tools are command

Re: GnuCash for Symbian

2012-04-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:24:47 +0200, Łukasz Spas wrote: Hello. I've developed small application for Symbian (tested on S60) which allows users to manage their finances using their Symbian phone. (Here is the repo: https://gitorious.org/gnucash-s60/gnucash-s60) It is still incomplete

Re: For The Love Of Bitcoin

2012-02-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:18:47 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: karmic...@bitcoin2pay.com writes: [Bitcoin history elided] I didn't see any actionable requests in this long diatribe. What exactly are you asking? Note that you can always add your own commodity to GnuCash, although you need to

Re: xaccAccountEqual ?

2012-01-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:17:02 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: I thought you were working on learning to script Gnucash with Guile. In part, yes. But I'm really trying to learn to write an introduction for people who want to learn to script Gnucash

Re: xaccAccountEqual ?

2012-01-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:23:16PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, On Sat, January 7, 2012 2:35 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: What's xaccAccountEqual for? Is it actually something gnucash uses (I can't imagine what for), or is it just there because guile wants the smob to have a function

Re: xaccAccountEqual ?

2012-01-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 11:52:41AM -0800, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 8, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:23:16PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, On Sat, January 7, 2012 2:35 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: What's xaccAccountEqual for? Is it actually something

gnucash mentioned in guile docs.

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
Just a matter of slight interest -- gnucash is mentioned in the guile 1.8 documentation. It seems that gnucash is part of a significant code eco- system for Guile-based applications. See the last paragraph of http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/

Re: Guile 2

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:52:25 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 9 december 2011 10:59:31 schreef Ted Creedon: Is anyone working on the Guile 2 issues? Not right now, but it's on my to do list. I plan to work on it somewhere in the next couple of weeks. Please keep me informed what's

xaccAccountEqual ?

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
What's xaccAccountEqual for? Is it actually something gnucash uses (I can't imagine what for), or is it just there because guile wants the smob to have a function that tests deep equality? -- hendrik ___ gnucash-devel mailing list

Re: Anyone speak french (gnucash-fr needs a new moderator)?

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:14:46 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hey, Email to the moderator of the gnucash-fr mailing list has been bouncing for a while. I want to ask the gnucash-fr list if there is anyone that would like to step up to be a moderator, but I don't speak french. I presume I could

Re: iPad 2 app - please?

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:33:25 -0800, John Ralls wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Nick Kemp wrote: I am a big gnucash fan – however, I would really love to have an ipad app... please? This has been discussed at length before. It isn't going to happen, not least because Gtk doesn't

Re: iPad 2 app - please?

2012-01-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:58:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Also, it's not at all clear whether gnucash's use of guile would get past Apple's approval process. If it was an easy port, I'd say let someone try it and see. But to do a major rewrite and have it rejected would be annoying

Re: Explorer's log: Entering the maze

2012-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:03:41 -0800, John Ralls wrote: If you haven't already, you might find it helpful to take a few minutes to skim over the Doxygen documentation. That will help you understand why the docs are structured the way they are. People using a scripting languagee to access

Re: 2.6 Release -- SCheme

2011-12-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:19:58 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: Op vrijdag 30 december 2011 09:06:58 schreef u: Swig/Guile: It looks to me like we have a much broader problem: Swig's Guile support is not maintained. For the short term we can try applying the patch from the Swig bug report and see

Re: Gnucash reports using php and mysql

2011-12-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
anything before 3.0? I'd suggest having a look at an interesting thread, Scripting API, on gnucash-devel started by Hendrik Boom in November. It discusses similar issues and the subject of the fairly new python bindings capability comes up, something I have not investigated myself (only because I

Re: Strategy

2011-12-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:40:07 -0500, Donald Allen wrote: I've been watching with interest the messages flying by from various people that confirm the impression (from just trying to build it) that Gnucash has become a gigantic hairball. John Ralls has been saying a number of things that sound

Re: Strategy

2011-12-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:35:08 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: On 03 Dec 2011, at 11:40 PM, Donald Allen wrote: Gnucash has been around for a long time, and its life-span covers the development of a lot of tools. If you were going to start with a blank sheet of paper today, I doubt very much

Explorer's log: Entering the maze

2011-12-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
Thanks for all the help so far. I now generate the users and doxygen documentation, and have started exploring it. The internal system documentation is a maze. And unlike mazes printed in puzzle books, there aren't clearly identified start and finish points :) Or, at least, I haven't found

Building user documentation -- just one glitch.

2011-12-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
As John Ralls pointed out, the proper way to check out the user documentation is svn checkout http://code.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk gnucash-docs Everything was almost smooth sailing from there. The first problem was that I didn't have the command xsltproc. The ./configure suggested

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:12:31 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, The API docs are generated via doxygen. You can generate them yourself using make docs. The sourcesof the API docs are spread out through the source tree. But when I'm in the top directory of the source tree (the same placs I

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:16:53 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:13:58 +, Yawar Amin wrote: Hi Hendrik, The user documentation is in the gnucash-docs repository ( http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash-docs). Evidently there's still something I don't know

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:16:05 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:12:31 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, The API docs are generated via doxygen. You can generate them yourself using make docs. The sourcesof the API docs are spread out through the source tree. But when

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:22:34 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: This would imply you do not have doxygen installed. I didn't. I do now. It still doesn't work, failing in the same way. No time to investigate now. I'll look into it further tonight. Maybe there's a configure parameter I

Re: I probably did something wrong; having configure problems. SOLVED

2011-11-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:44:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Op vrijdag 18 november 2011, Geert Janssens screef: On vrijdag 18 november 2011, Hendrik Boom wrote: Do build details really depend on the presence of .svn directories? It does. Not strictly from the directories, but svn tools

Scripting documentation

2011-11-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
OK. I've managed to compile gnucash and get it to pass its checks (except for the database back end, which I had excluded. Now I'm ready to start prowling around looking for scripting API to document. Could someone tell me: Is there any existing API documentation, either in the source tree

I probably did something wrong; having configure problems.

2011-11-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
This is the actual message I get. checking for ./src/swig-runtime.h... no configure: error: It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion but I cannot find swig-runtime.h. Check your PATH and make sure we can find svnversion in your PATH! Either that or contact gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: I probably did something wrong; having configure problems.

2011-11-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Op vrijdag 18 november 2011, Geert Janssens screef: On vrijdag 18 november 2011, Hendrik Boom wrote: Do build details really depend on the presence of .svn directories? It does. Not strictly from the directories, but svn tools are used to check if you are working from an svn directory

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-11-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:05:48 -0400, Yawar Amin wrote: Hi John, On 2011-07-08, at 23:33, John Ralls wrote: […] Fun. Two questions: Can that be easily converted into a string parser so that normal users aren't put off by the extra parentheses, I guess we could replace all the parens

Re: Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

2011-11-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:32:16 +0200, Florian Haas wrote: Some existing account hierarchies (in the de_DE locale) presently work around this limitation rather crudely, by including the account number as a prefix to the account name. Apart from that being a rather inelegant redundancy, it also

Re: Python script: Gnucash

2011-11-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:38:37 +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: Also, I'm not sure if has been mentioned here already, but myself, Micha Lenk and mostly Philipp Kern packaged up the python bindings for Debian. They're in the python-gnucash package in Debian testing unstable. If that was recent, it

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:48:27 -0500, Tim M wrote: What I'm looking for is this: 1. Create the 'new' reporting system alongside the existing one so that the reports do not suffer until the existing functionality can be fully replaced by the new system. After all reports are replaced and

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:33:16 -0400, John Ralls wrote: On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: If we stick with Scheme, we can take advantage of all the low-level functions that already exist for data extraction and report layout. But we can also move to a declarative model where we

Re: Scripting

2011-11-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:55:08 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: [snip] (1) The bulk of the code for gnucash should be a shared library, whose API (s) provide all the essential functionality of gnucash. This would include code for starting up

Re: developer account created mchochlov

2011-11-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:41:47 -0400, GnuCash Admin wrote: This is an automated e-mail via the add-new-developer script ($Revision: 1.7 $). Developer account Muslim Chochlov has been created: mchoch...@code.gnucash.org. Admins (root) should update CVS access for this user. Are you still

Re: Scripting API

2011-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:35:46 -0500, Nicolae Crisan wrote: I am 100% on-board this score. Again, finding the boots on the ground to do this is another matter altogether. The existing Python scripting API would be a good place to start. Maybe, all told, it's all we really need, except users

Scripting

2011-11-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
A few years ago I wanted some printouts of gnucash data formatted in a form that my wife and I could use. It was frustrating to me that the easiest way to accomplish that was to reverse-engineer the gnucash file and hand-coding a C++ program that read in the XML file and further processed

Re: Working more closely with GNOME

2000-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: As a biased observer and gnucash user, I would agree that this is probably good with some reservations from a user standpoint. Right now gnucash works with both gnome and KDE. If

Re: GNUCash

2000-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] write: OK, my turn: Bob, do you know what an octothorpe is? :-) Clark Isn't it the thing everyone calls the number sign or the hash mark on the 12-key touch-tone telephone keybiard? -- hendrik

denominators

2000-07-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
One of the big issues seems to be whether we have just one denominator for a commodity, or many. Examples are being thrown around about whether there is a quantum unit of a commodity, whether it changes, and how often, and whether the quantum unit is so intrinsic to a commodity that, say, milk

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hmmm... I don't recall anybody mentioning "time" as the unit of measure... convert to seconds? minutes? hours? days? weeks? months? years? I often deal with measurements in nanoseconds... many things get charged for by unit time... e.g., phone calls, wages, room rents, ... An

Re: denominators

2000-07-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Actually, a problem that none of the proposals in this mailing list addresses is the possibility that a commodity mught be bought and sold in units whose conversion factors are irrational. As I said before, you can have irrational pricing but not irrational prices. The ledgers

Re: denominators

2000-07-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish humor from lack of understanding. There may be good reason for this difficulty. I suspect humour may have eveolved as a social mechanism by which those who do not understand can express same without embarassment. I suspect this

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
I don't think there is one; the _arguable_ counterexample would be the situation where a market changes "denominations," but that may also be argued to redenominate the commodity, which means it's not really the same commodity anymore... -- When I owe someone 12 1/2 shares of some

Re: help on disabling preferences widgets

2000-07-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
I agree that error handling is a PITA in functional languages. Actually, it's not functional languages in general with this problem. Unfortunately, your proposal only works one level deep. One of the real advantages of "functional" languages is that you nest calls. (let ((x (f1 (f2 (f3

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:39:07PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in stockmarket quotations, e.g., nonsense like "73 213/256". However, the SEC has told the U.S. stock markets "thou shalt decimalize", and though Partially true, but stock prices are

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
Well, floating point is definitely NOT the proper solution for US dollars (or any other currency of which I am aware -- anybody know a currency still in use that isn't decimal? The UK abandoned the "shillings pence" in the '60's). I believe some former British colonies still use pounds,

Re: backup v2

2000-06-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: But what if some catastrophic event happens while the modified log file is written to disk? Couldn't you possibly lose the entire log? I think not, but I don't know for sure. I was thinking that GnuCash would open() the log for appending

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
Clark Jones writes: A thought has occurred to me: A possible solution would be to "migrate" to C++ (not a humongous project, since a quick look through a "tar -tvzf" of a source-tarball reveals that it's mostly in C) and then use C++'s ability to "overload" the normal operators

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
After discussion with some of the other developers, it is becoming clear that most if not all of the problems people are having with rounding and fractional cents are because, in fact, gnucash does not know that there is a minimimum quantum of transactions for certain types of accounts.

Re: SaveAs label?

2000-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
I think someone mentioned an auto-save feature, and that sure would be nice, too, especially if there were a disable option in a Preferences... dialog. How about a single autosave after 30 minutes of no activity in the Registry window? We already maintain a log, which does not eat disk in

Re: Log File behaviour

2000-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: Now, those .xac files - are they the previous data file, or are they written in parallel with the main file? (Or copied after the main file is written?) They are

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
When bankers first used mainframes, some slick programmers established "hidden accounts" which received the tinsy fractional part of the interest, the part lost when rounding DOWN to integer pennies ... It wasn't much, but as it happen at the end of every day, on every savings account ...

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
You are correct. 32 bits are inadequate. It would be sufficient for MY personal accounts :-( but not those of Mr. Gates. Mr Gates is unlikely to use gnucash on Linux. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: denominating currency - was: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
Prices are handled differently from amounts. The price is multiplied by the quantity and that result is adjusted to the "integral" amount of exchange. At one time the US used "mils" ($0.001). However, clerks worked for $1 per day or less. With inflation, the smallest exchange is now the

version 1.3.100 on SuSE?

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm starting to install version 1.3.100 on SuSE Linux. First, I notice I don't have g-wrap. Unless I am mistaken, this package does not appear in either the SuSE 6.3 or 6.4 distribution. I download g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm from the gnucash web site. I rpm -i --test g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm, and

version 1.3.100 on SuSE? (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm starting to install version 1.3.100 on SuSE Linux. First, I notice I don't have g-wrap. Unless I am mistaken, this package does not appear in either the SuSE 6.3 or 6.4 distribution. I download g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm from the gnucash web site. I rpm -i --test

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
T.Pospisek's MailLists writes: On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: Ben Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can't remember if it was a

Re: Re-opening a file.

2000-06-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
Glen Ditchfield writes: If I open an account file with GnuCash 1.3.99, and if I immediately re-open the file (either through the File Open... dialog or by selecting the file directly from the recent file list under File), I get an error alert saying that "the file

Re: 64 bit nonportability

2000-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 22:06:09 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dylan Paul Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 10:20:40AM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 05:01:51AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: I agree. Using gint32 rather than int

speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm slowly gearing up to use GnuCash on live data, and am attempting to start parallel operation with Quicken before cutting over comletely. As a result I am continuing to find problems, some of which are relatively easy to fix. But some, I suspect are not. Is there a speed problem, or am I

Re: speed?

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
I think the bottleneck is in the Gnome Canvas, which is the basis of the register display. Dave P would know more about that. I suspect this is where it's happening, but we will need to do some profiling to be sure. Is each entry field in the register a separate Gnome widget? Do you

Re: importing one-ended transfers

2000-06-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: I now see the following possibility: One transaction, that debits the chequing account by $200, memo groceries debits the chequing account $10, memo cash debits the chequing account $90, memo allowances credits

importing one-ended transfers

2000-05-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
When I imported *everything* from Quicken to gnucash, I noticed the balances were different in gnucash from in Quicken, even after fixing the "Opening Balance" transaction. Hoping to nail a gnucash bug, I binary-searched throug about 8 years of transaction data, and found that it was not

importing one-ended transfers (fwd)

2000-05-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
Whoops! I miswrote myself. - Forwarded message from Hendrik Boom - "Opening Balance" transaction. Hoping to nail a gnucash bug, I binary-searched throug about 8 years of transaction data, and found that it was not Gnucash, but Quicken that seems to have been at fault.

Re: importing one-ended transfers

2000-05-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I don't expect you to run and fix this (though it would be nice) immediately before a stable release, for fear of disturbing something else. This period of time is for bug fixes, and you've found a bug, so it's the perfect time to fix

Re: Problem with transfers/double accounting

2000-05-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have this problem too. I'm using multi-line mode. Terminology: proto-transaction: a transaction which is being entered in the register window onto a blank transaction, and is still in one line mode (or has one blank split displayed below...). In gnucash 1.3.7, the transfer

Re: missing xml, print; 1.3.7, SuSE

2000-05-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
gnome-print is in series gnm: gnprint and gnprintd I added these (yet another) dependencies to SuSE-6.3.txt. (Perhaps we should recommend to buy a new big harddisk and just install the whole 6 CDROMs ;-).) Dave: Please add the attached SuSE-6.3.txt to CVS. Herbert. Thanks. It

missing xml, print; 1.3.7, SuSE

2000-05-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
When compiling 1.3.7 on SuSE 6.3, it could not find two libraries: xml print When I installed packages libxml (and libxmld too, just in case) from series d, the xml problem went away (although I had to delete the source tree and reuntar it to make it find xml; a make clean

Re: Libraries

2000-05-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hmm, how about some kind of install program? I was thinking of doing this as a generic thing on my spare time, but something that checks if certain libraries are installed, and if they are not, wgets them or something similiar and installs them. You might get more newbie users to

Re: QIF format ?

2000-05-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am thinking in terms of a "plugin" to reformat the "memo" information into the fields, like cheque number and Payee, which are more appropriate. Could you clarify this last part a bit? Have you observed the QIF memo field to be used in

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
Randolph Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me, please, the historical background of this odd use of language? If it's already been discussed, then please point me to the archives. When you make a deposit in a bank account, the bank OWES YOU money. You become a

debits and credits WAS: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
Randolph Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me, please, the historical background of this odd use of language? If it's already been discussed, then please point me to the archives. Bill, Let me make another try to understand this. In a previous posting you (I believe?)

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
How about, as a first step, we make the reconcile window be configurable to use, e.g., 'Funds In' and 'Funds Out' instead of debit/credit as you suggest? Something like that is probably necessary. Gnucash looks to me like one of the crucial tools that will get Linux onto desktops

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs". It is the JEs that get reconciled.

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs". It is the JEs that get reconciled. Right. But to what does the "Payee&qu

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: In general, I think that we must assume no correlation between importing data and reconciliation. All that we know is that each entry imported from the bank must appear in the ledger and that it has cleared the bank. A JE must progress through

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
As for changing "reconciled" transactions, it is unclear to me what relationship exists between the "transaction" and the "JEs". It is the JEs that get reconciled. Each JE would get reconciled separately. Therefore you could have a transaction transferring funds from one account to

Re: Order of transactions

2000-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm not sure how it works in Quicken. I was referring to just sorting by the date of entry, not changing it. But now that I think of it, if we switch to sorting by the date of entry, we could go ahead and show the date of entry in the left column instead of the 'real' date typed in, and

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: I was talking to someone about on-line banking gnucash. I hadn't thought about ti much, but a large part of on-line banking is reconciling statements against what the bank has. Now, many 'online banks' use QIF export as

Re: on-line banking qif import

2000-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
In general, I think that we must assume no correlation between importing data and reconciliation. All that we know is that each entry imported from the bank must appear in the ledger and that it has cleared the bank. A JE must progress through the following "reconciliation states" 1)

Re: question: What is a JE?

2000-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] -Original Message- From: Richard Wackerbarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:33 PM To: Herbert Thoma; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question: What is a JE? On Thu, 11 May 2000,

Re: multiple currencies

2000-04-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Christopher Browne wrote: My inclination (which is somewhat educated in the matter :-)) is to have the register report _Cost._ Cost does not change over time, and since it tends to reflect cash changing hands, it is _fairly_ objective. I agree. But I think that the engine does

Re: Dividends

2000-04-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
So GnuCash definetly needs a currencies conversion. For EURO, we can hardcode a fixed table of all "Euro currencies" since they are NOT supposed to evolve. For the other, we can have a table updated by the user (and automagically by gnc-prices). I woudn't rely on fixed exchange rates until

Re: budgets Was: quicken migration

2000-04-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. Maybe some thing this perverse, but I enjoy the practice we seem to have of quoting the entire discussion in each message. It's certainly not a practice all of us have (or like). When I wrote the P.S., I thought " Everyone will pro

Re: quicken migration

2000-03-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hello. Just wondering what the consensus is for migrating savings goal accounts. One idea I have I'm not clear what a savings goal account is, but it sounds like a budgeting issue. Does it make sense to represent budgets as accounts? -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send

Re: budgets Was: quicken migration

2000-03-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
What I've always wanted was a way to relate each transaction to the budget category and period it belongs to. So if I put off paying a bill for a few months (maybe there's a dispute as to the correct amount or something), when I finally do pay it it sould count against the budget period it

QIF import *and* save/load trouble

2000-03-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, transactions which in Quicken had been reconciled in only one account show up as reconciled in both accounts. This is wrong, but I can probably track then down by hand and hand-edit them. That's definitely a bug... I wasn't thinking

Re: QIF import (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Somehow I failed to notice the separation between the two mappings: file-name onto Quicken account name Quicken account name to gnucash account name Maybe it would help to emphasize these two mapping in the documentation or in the UI. How would you suggest that the UI

Re: i18n and check printing and Europe (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
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Re: QIF import (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
A few more details about the transaction(s?) in my previous note: For example, the register for account "chequing" now contains (in multiline mode): 11/23/1998 nettransfer to visa r 1,000.00 450,788.03 33038681 visa -

Re: i18n and check printing and Europe (fwd), Re: i18n and check printingand Europe (fwd)

2000-03-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Even in English we have, in many dialects, "five hundreds of dollars" (as opposed to "five hundred dollars") not to mention "threescore dollars and twelve". I believe my grandfather wrote "Seventy-Five Pounds and 26/100", but "Seventy-Five Pounds Only"; yet "One Hundred Pounds

Re: duplicate transactions

2000-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
Well, I got gnucash 3.6.2 running on SuSE Linux 6.3. You mean gnucash 1.3.2? Yes. Stupid typo. When I import my entire financial state from a set of Quicken exports (one for each account, natch), all the transfers from one account to another get duplicated. A transfer is

duplicate transactions

2000-03-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
(revised message -- yesterday's version bounced) Well, I got gnucash 3.6.2 running on SuSE Linux 6.3. When I import my entire financial state from a set of Quicken exports (one for each account, natch), all the transfers from one account to another get duplicated. A transfer is physically

Re: installung gnucash-1.3.0 on SuSE-6.3

2000-03-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hendrik Boom wrote: Since you seem to have succeeded in your installation, you presumably have the missing file. Have I left out something from my SuSE that would explain this problem? Yes, you need to install the gettext package, which is in the d series, I think. This helped

Re: installung gnucash-1.3.0 on SuSE-6.3

2000-03-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
This helped. It now gets past the ./configure. Unfortunately, now the make gnome fails. Mresumably I'm missing snother useful package, the one containing various include files whose names start starting with "gdk_". The tail end of the installation log follows. These initials sound

installung gnucash-1.3.0 on SuSE-6.3

2000-03-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
I tried installing gnucash-1.3.0 on SuSE-6.3 using the version of your instructions distributed with gnucash-1.3.2 (it describes the installation of 1.3.0). Unfortunately I encountered a missing file error during the ./configure step: creating po/extract-macros.perl creating

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