Re: [GNC] More Fun with Lots

2020-08-25 Thread Geoff
Yes David there are some "interesting" behaviours within the Lot Viewer, however with patience and perseverance you should be able to master it, and one day you will sit back and wonder what all the fuss was about. I have successfully used Lots for all sorts of corporate actions including

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Samantha Payn
Hi Geoff My locale currency is GBP. As it was when this feature of Gnucash used to work for me. Thanks for taking the time to get involved. Samantha On 25 August 2020 09:42 Geoff < [1]cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote: <<< Please excuse me for jumping in late on this thread

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Geoff
<<< Please excuse me for jumping in late on this thread >>> Samantha reported: ""when I click it I get an error window that says: "There was a system error while retrieving the price quotes"."" Samantha's debug output shows the error message: * 10:15:31 DEBUG handling-request: (currency USD

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Samantha Payn
Please do not apologise, John. I appreciate that you have other things to do than help me :) This is what I get (I substituted my API key for xxx): PS C:\Users\User> $Env:ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY = "xxx" PS C:\Users\User> '(currency "USD" "GBP")' | perl 'c:\Program Files

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Samantha Payn
Hi Geoff Thanks for your suggestoins. This is what I get: PS C:\Users\User> $Env:ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY = 'mykey' PS C:\Users\User> echo '(currency "USD" "GBP")' | perl 'c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-helper' Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @INC (you may need to install

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Geoff
Hi Samantha There were a couple of typos in the powershell command John asked you to run, which is why there was no output. Would you mind trying the following 4 powershell command lines please - with your actual API Key of course - and note the single quote at the end of each line:

Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
>> Any way to get it in single line mode? On 2020-08-21 03:31, david whiting wrote: Not that I am aware of. Dang! Thank you anyway. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem: GTK CSS issue

2020-08-25 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
John, Am 25.08.20 um 04:56 schrieb John Angelico: : > (gnucash:1345): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:51:42.048: Theme parsing error: > gtk.css:5898:20: Junk at end of value for border-width > ** >

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem: GTK CSS issue

2020-08-25 Thread John Ralls
By default gtk.css will be in $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 25, 2020, at 7:29 AM, John Angelico wrote: > > Thanks for the clue, Frank. > > I am not sure if I have that set. > > However, where is gtk supposed to be in a Debian system? I can see > etc/gtk-2.0 and

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread John Ralls
> > On Aug 25, 2020, at 1:42 AM, Geoff wrote: > > <<< Please excuse me for jumping in late on this thread >>> > > Samantha reported: ""when I click it I get an error window that says: "There > was a system error while retrieving the price quotes"."" > > Samantha's debug output shows the

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

2020-08-25 Thread Derek Zehr
Sorry David, my previous email didn't go to the group. Here's my problem with a little more detail. When I try to launch GnuCash I get this error: :/opt/gnucash$ ./bin/gnucash ./bin/gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Geoff
Ah hah! This could be the cause of all your problems. That error message says that your perl installation is missing a key component - the "Date::Manip" module. Explaining how to fix this will take a bit of effort, and as it is now bedtime in my part of the world, I will try to knock up

Re: [GNC] Capital Gain Calculations on Split Stocks

2020-08-25 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Thanks! On 8/25/2020 9:48 AM, Stan Brown wrote: On 2020-08-24 20:06, D. via gnucash-user wrote: I'll have to figure out how I'd trigger the --extra flag in Windows METHOD 1: a. Duplicate your GnuCash shortcut b. Right-click the duplicate, select Properties c. Add the flag in the Target box.

[GNC] More Fun with Lots

2020-08-25 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Hello, Having now fiddled with the Lots features some more, I have encountered some issues with its implementation. First, if I open up the lots viewer to see what it is doing with lot allocations, the interface appears to automatically recalculate the gain in the entire account, and it

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Flatpak on GalliumOS Linux

2020-08-25 Thread Geert Janssens
Op maandag 24 augustus 2020 22:09:15 CEST schreef Art Chimes: > Thanks, Frank. > > This — sudo flatpak override org.gnucash.GnuCash > --filesystem= > — worked like a charm. > > The embarrassing thing is that, in searching for a solution, I actually > looked at that page, but it didn't register

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem: GTK CSS issue

2020-08-25 Thread John Angelico
Thanks for the clue, Frank. I am not sure if I have that set. However, where is gtk supposed to be in a Debian system? I can see etc/gtk-2.0 and etc/gtk-3.0 but whereis gtk.css only replies with gtk: Most puzzling. On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 18:43, Frank H. Ellenberger <

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Samantha Payn
Thanks Geoff! Sleep well! On 25 August 2020 13:17 Geoff < [1]cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote: Ah hah! This could be the cause of all your problems. That error message says that your perl installation is missing a key component - the "Date::Manip" module. Explaining how to

Re: [GNC] GnuCash Flatpak on GalliumOS Linux

2020-08-25 Thread Art Chimes
Geert. It has persisted so far. Thanks again, Art On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:59 AM Geert Janssens wrote: > > It should be a persistent setting. > > Regards, > > Geert -- Art Chimes 1117-B N. Stuart St. Arlington, Va. 22201 ___ gnucash-user mailing

Re: [GNC] Capital Gain Calculations on Split Stocks

2020-08-25 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Oh! I like that solution! I knew someone would have a way to make this work. Now, if only the assistant would handle it this way... Original Message From: Geoff Sent: Tue Aug 25 02:04:38 EDT 2020 To: "D." , peterb Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Capital Gain

Re: [GNC] Capital Gain Calculations on Split Stocks

2020-08-25 Thread Stan Brown
On 2020-08-24 20:06, D. via gnucash-user wrote: > I'll have to figure out how I'd trigger the --extra flag in Windows METHOD 1: a. Duplicate your GnuCash shortcut b. Right-click the duplicate, select Properties c. Add the flag in the Target box. METHOD 2: a. Open a command prompt. b. Type CD

Re: [GNC] GC v4.1 on Windows and v3.1 on Ubuntu

2020-08-25 Thread Larry Long
D'oh!  I fired up my Ubuntu notebook and discovered that my GnuCash version on it is actually 3.8, instead of 3.1.So much for being on top of everything.  :-) Adrien said: > If you accepted the default, then you aren't using a database. > The default is XML for all platforms. Yes.  I believe

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem

2020-08-25 Thread David Cousens
John, You will need to use $sudo apt install gnucash to install from the repository. You may also need to use apt-get instead of apt if the alias apt is not defined on Debian. to locate the executable $whereis gnucash should give you the path to the executable any libraries and shared

[GNC] Gnucash 4.1 on Mac Crashing on Exit

2020-08-25 Thread Alton Brantley
It seems that if I have a couple of unsaved transactions, and then go to exit Gnucash, I can get a crash. If I have one or two transactions I have edited but not saved, and I do Menu->File->Quit, 1. I get asked to save a transaction, so I click yes, then 2. I get asked to safe the file before

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

2020-08-25 Thread David Cousens
Derek, It is possible it will cause problems. When you specify the prefix the installation procedure puts the libraries and shared resources in particular locations. AFAIK it doesn't create environment variables in your system but the choice of prefix goes affect how GnuCash looks for files

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem

2020-08-25 Thread John Angelico
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 07:01, David Cousens wrote: > John, > You will need to use > > $sudo apt install gnucash > > to install from the repository. > > You may also need to use apt-get instead of apt if the alias apt is not > defined on Debian. to locate the executable > > $whereis gnucash > >

Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version

2020-08-25 Thread Derek Zehr
Thank you once again David. Your detailed explanations helped to fill in some of my blank spots in understanding the build process. Make had some red error lines when I rebuilt gnucash, and not knowing how to figure them out (it worked the first time I built it) I switched to ninja with very

Re: [GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem: GTK CSS issue

2020-08-25 Thread John Angelico
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 01:31, John Ralls wrote: > By default gtk.css will be in $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ > > Thanks, John (and Frank) but when I look there I find no gtk.css (nor in $HOME/.config/gtk-2.0 either) Should the gnucash install have created one? Searching online I found a gtk bug

Re: [GNC] How do I add notes to my columns?

2020-08-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
> On 25/08/2020 9:25 pm, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: >> >> Any way to get it in single line mode? >> >> On 2020-08-21 03:31, david whiting wrote: >>> Not that I am aware of. >> >> >> Dang! Thank you anyway. On 2020-08-25 19:22, Geoff wrote: Todd / Margo, not sure if this quite what

Re: [GNC] Difficulty with online price retrieval

2020-08-25 Thread Geoff
Thanks John, I'll try and get Samantha's perl installation sorted out, then we will see if she still has a problem with exchange rates. Geoff = On 26/08/2020 2:33 am, John Ralls wrote: On Aug 25, 2020, at 1:42 AM, Geoff wrote: <<< Please excuse me for jumping in late on this thread >>>

Re: [GNC] More Fun with Lots

2020-08-25 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Geoff, feel free to analyse the Lot Viewer report (visible with gnucash --extra) and offer any suggestions. It was designed to assist AP/AR lot usage, and could be augmented to assist STOCK use of lots (afaik is optional for this). On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 02:19, Geoff wrote: > Yes David there