Re: Python Shell

2011-01-18 Thread Christoph Holtermann
Hello ! How far into Python are you? Somewhere in the middle ;-) It should be pretty easy to write an interpreter for a very simple language like your last suggestion. You would need to decide how you wanted it to work (how will you refer to the objects?). Also, you would need to decide how

Re: Python Shell

2011-01-18 Thread Christoph Holtermann
Hello Forest ! Hi Christoph, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:04:50PM +0100, Christoph Holtermann wrote: My interest in gnucash is to have a python-shell-environment which lets me easily access and display data. I have written some things for myself like simple functions

Re: No bank lists

2011-01-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Tony, Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2011 um 19:20:58 schrieb tony: If you can direct me elsewhere, then fine. The help has no description of this and is generally very weak when describing banking setup. On the select a bank form I put in all the info for my bank and click ok, I get a message

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Randy Aldering
Good grief, my apologies. One could resent the suggestion that the users of GnuCash and other OpenSource projects do not support them financially. For my type of personality, all of that reading is a bit much. GnuCash has not been generating .xac files for two years, and it still isn't

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Randy, Randy Aldering alderi...@housesmithe.com writes: Good grief, my apologies. One could resent the suggestion that the users of GnuCash and other OpenSource projects do not support them financially. For my type of personality, all of that reading is a bit much. GnuCash has not been

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Derek Atkins wrote: Randy, Randy Aldering alderi...@housesmithe.com writes: Good grief, my apologies. One could resent the suggestion that the users of GnuCash and other OpenSource projects do not support them financially. For my type of personality, all of

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you could lose data by using them. However it is also unfortunately true that for some time the principle download link on the home page was to the alpha

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you could lose data by using them. However it is also unfortunately true that for

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you could lose

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] PS: For

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 17:30, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Donald Allen wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you could lose data by using them.

Re: Python Shell

2011-01-18 Thread Christoph Holtermann
Hello ! I thought a bit about about the displaying problem. It seems to me that displaying is a task which could go into a seperate module. This modulecould provide a function for example display(object). It would also add a function object.display() to every object it knows. For example

Re: Python Shell

2011-01-18 Thread Anthony Dardis
I'm a little confused here. If you are writing something that lets you, the user, type stuff in to cause the machine to tell you things about your GnuCash data, then there's really not a question about how to program the displaying: that's a decision to make about the thing you are writing. Unless

get quotes broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Herbert Thoma
Hi, did anything change in the code that handles online retrieval of stock prices with finance-quote? It does not work any more for me. The last successful stock price download was on Jan. 7th, but I don't do this every day so I don't know exactly when it stopped working. My current GnuCash is

Re: get quotes broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Jeff Kletsky
I recently had problems trying to run gnucash --add-price-quotes from a cron job. If that is the case (or you are not running under X), you may need to start dbus, similar to env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID EXIT; /usr/local/bin/gnucash --add-price-quotes

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Randy Aldering
Folks, Thanks for all of the attention. Regardless of how I ended up with 2.3.4, or why I had the impression that it was a stable release, I did experience a problem. As a result, I sought advice, and finally found assistance through the irc site. With the very capable and understanding

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2011-01-18 Thread junk male
Suggetions: 1. GUI like QBooks 2. Qbook data files impor or export (like softoffice does compatible with word) 3. Gnucashbin.exe stop tryng to conncet go thru the network when blocke by fire wall. You might have heard before. But wow would this make a lot of people switch from Qbooks.

Re: get quotes broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Walasek
On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Jeff Kletsky wrote: I recently had problems trying to run gnucash --add-price-quotes from a cron job. If that is the case (or you are not running under X), you may need to start dbus, similar to env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID EXIT;

python binding: getting invoice entry data

2011-01-18 Thread Brian St. Pierre
I'm trying to use the python bindings to fetch entry (line-item) data from an invoice. See http://pastebin.com/fy06CPup for the test GnuCash XML file I'm using. I expect the script below to print the three line items from the invoice in that file, but instead it dies with: % gnucash-env python

Re: get quotes broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Alexander
--On January 18, 2011 4:07:17 PM -0800 Russ Walasek kesa...@gmail.com wrote: Price quotes work on 2.4, but don't work on the latest trunk release. On OS X 10.6.6, building from source. This should be fixed in revision 20126. The bug was introduced in revision 20042. Mike