Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
David C. Trading accounts are not the same as lots. Different concept, different code. Just a for instance: trading accounts are turned on by book; lots can be enabled by account. David T. On July 27, 2022 3:33:37 AM GMT+03:00, David Carlson wrote: >I believe that you are witnessing first

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread Eric Hammond
Thank you, I will check it out All the best, Eric From: john Sent: Monday, July 25, 2022 11:07 AM To: Eric Hammond Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Eric Hammond

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David Carlson
I forgot to address fixing the mess. I think there are two ways to fix it. The easiest is to restore your last backup from before turning on TA's. The other, iirc, is to manually delete all those TA's. On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:24 PM wrote: > Fred, > > Not early in the guide, but in the section

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread David Carlson
I believe that you are witnessing first hand why trading accounts are not enabled by default, i.e. they create a royal mess in your trading history. You might want to re-read the recent thread about evil trading accounts. They may work ok for some users who's documentation goals align with the

Re: [GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread davidcousens49
Fred, Not early in the guide, but in the section dealing with multiple currencies https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/currency_trading_accts.html and discussed on the wiki (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts). I don't think anyone has yet written anything about any

[GNC] Trading accounts

2022-07-26 Thread Fred Tydeman
Over the past several months, I have been importing Quicken data into GnuCash. There is about 6 years of data and lots of transactions. Besides normal income and expenses, that data involved many different stocks and many different currencies. Recently, I saw a reference to "Trading" accounts.

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread john
If you mean the gnucash-x.x-setup.exe distributed as part of releases, it's built on Windows in the MSYS2 environment using gcc. You're correct that the Python bindings aren't included. That's also the case for the macOS GnuCash.app and flatpak. The reason is that the bindings must be linked

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread john
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. While providing a stable library for other applications to use is a long-term goal we've still got a fair amount of work to do before we can support it. Until then we make absolutely no API or ABI stability guarantees for the shared libraries: