Re: [GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2018-11-28 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 28 november 2018 19:08:44 CET schreef Jack Slater: > Windows 10 > GnuCash 3.3 > > If cursor focus is on the numeric total in the CHARGE field (Example: the > entire 15.22 is highlighted) and I Alt-Tab to a web browser to verify the > amount from an invoice and then Alt-Tab back, only

Re: [GNC] Can't lock user???

2018-11-28 Thread Hook
Oops .. sorry for the confusion. I seem to have dropped a paragraph. I am talking about Actions > Online Actions > Get Transactions and the error I am seeing is that GNC can't lock the user. I am running 3.3 on Windows 10. -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Can't lock user???

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
Your subject line is misleading. I think you are having issues with Actions > Online Actions > Get Transactions... Is that correct? It would be helpful to know what version GnuCash you are running and your computer OS. David C On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:37 PM Hook wrote: > I have 3 users

[GNC] Can't lock user???

2018-11-28 Thread Hook
I have 3 users defined for online retrieval: 2 for Schwab, 1 for Vanguard. Everything was fine a for a one of the Schwab users. I have restarted gnucash, rebooting, but the problem persists. Any ideas? -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread Joseph Vernice
Thank you all for your explanations. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:52 AM David T. wrote: > It learns from your choices during import. If you accept the choices it > makes, it does it that way the next time. You change it by selecting a > different account in the matcher window. Then the matcher

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-28 Thread Thomas Forrester
Hence the reason payroll is so often outsourced. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:20 PM Derek Atkins wrote: > Geert Janssens writes: > > > Payroll on the other hand is not my cup of tea and likely more targeted > at > > larger businesses. > > When I was more active in my consulting business, a

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David Cousens
This is my understanding after having looked at some of the matcher code recently. It may not be exactly correct as I wasn't looking specifically at the Bayes algorithm but I did skim through the code. It tokenizes (parses) for key information in the import data. It seems to maintain a table of

Re: [GNC] Accounting Modules

2018-11-28 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens writes: > Payroll on the other hand is not my cup of tea and likely more targeted at > larger businesses. When I was more active in my consulting business, a payroll feature would have been very useful. I still maintain that GnuCash could contain a payroll framework which

Re: [GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2018-11-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There is at least one bug filed on text selection issues. I’m not sure if this is part of the same problem. Regards, Adrien > On Nov 28, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Jack Slater wrote: > > Windows 10 > GnuCash 3.3 > > If cursor focus is on the numeric total in the CHARGE field (Example: the > entire

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Richard, It’s not as difficult as it might appear. 1. Copy over your data file. 2. Start GnuCash 3. File > Open and select your data file. 4. GnuCash > Preferences - and set them the same as on the Win10 machine. (no need to try to convert registry keys, just make the changes manually, should

[GNC] Maybe a bug? Alt-Tab losing partial focus.

2018-11-28 Thread Jack Slater
Windows 10 GnuCash 3.3 If cursor focus is on the numeric total in the CHARGE field (Example: the entire 15.22 is highlighted) and I Alt-Tab to a web browser to verify the amount from an invoice and then Alt-Tab back, only the .22 of field hold the focus.

Re: [GNC] Scroll Bar Travel Distance?

2018-11-28 Thread Jack Slater
Geert - I finally got around to trying this but I must be doing something wrong because I experienced no changes after creating the .ini file. Here is where I'm working : C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Local\gtk-3.0 I created a file named: settings.ini Pasted in the syntax from the Wiki as: # Use

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
I just found a discussion about how it is applied in GnuCash: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bayes I am not sure if it still applies to release 3.x. David C On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:47 AM David Carlson wrote: > Joseph, > > If you are looking for a technically detailed answer, GnuCash uses a

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David Carlson
Joseph, If you are looking for a technically detailed answer, GnuCash uses a technique called Bayesian matching which is well known in mathematical circles. The success is very dependent on the details of implementation, and GnuCash took steps toward improvement in the 3.x series by using a

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 15:31, Robert Heller wrote: > ... > He is moving *from* a MS-Windows machine *to* an iMac. Oh yes, sorry, senile decay advancing at an ever increasing rate it appears. Now it seems I can't even read a few words without getting it wrong. Colin

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:05:56 + Colin Law wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 14:57, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > > > > >

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 14:57, R. Victor Klassen wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > > > Colin > > Why? The iMac runs a Unix variant native. It’s called macOS

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread R. Victor Klassen
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > I hope you are going to be running Linux on the new machine. > > Colin Why? The iMac runs a Unix variant native. It’s called macOS > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list >

Re: [GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
It learns from your choices during import. If you accept the choices it makes, it does it that way the next time. You change it by selecting a different account in the matcher window. Then the matcher learns from your decision. Take a look at:

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:40, Richard Jones wrote: > > Colin > Thanks for your reply. > Yes, I would do as you say - keep the existing system running, until the new > one was proved. > The risk I see is spending money on a new machine and then not being able to > use this application on it. >

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
> On Nov 28, 2018, at 4:55 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 10:49, Richard Jones > wrote: >> >> Thank you Robert, Michael, Adrien and John for taking the time and trouble >> to answer and explain. >> This migration would require very careful planning, testing and a backup >>

[GNC] How does GnuCash autoassign transactions?

2018-11-28 Thread Joseph Vernice
I would like to know how GnuCash auto-assigns transactions that are downloaded and imported?  Also, how can these transactions be changed for future imports? Example: I import a set of transactions and some are assigned as an Expense:Charity, some are assigned as Income, some as Imbalance. 

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Fred Bone
On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 13:45, Robert Heller said: [...] > I think Finder does not pass filename parameters "on the command line", > but instead uses some inter-process communication API and not all programs > are coded to handle that properly, mostly because most non-Mac programers >

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 10:49, Richard Jones wrote: > > Thank you Robert, Michael, Adrien and John for taking the time and trouble > to answer and explain. > This migration would require very careful planning, testing and a backup > plan if things go wrong. I will have to think hard as to whether

Re: [GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

2018-11-28 Thread Richard Jones
Thank you Robert, Michael, Adrien and John for taking the time and trouble to answer and explain. This migration would require very careful planning, testing and a backup plan if things go wrong. I will have to think hard as to whether it is worth risking. Thanks again Richard On Tue, 27 Nov 2018