Another 2.5.1 request - this for reports with charts

[David Carlson]

On 5/14/2013 2:17 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 5/14/2013 10:09 AM, Johannes Kapune wrote:
>> Am 14.05.2013 16:00, schrieb John Ralls:
>>> On May 14, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday 13 May 2013 21:50:04 John Ralls wrote:
>>>>> On May 13, 2013, at 9:32 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>> I am pretty sure that all the barchart reports are broken in the Windows
>>>>>> release 2.5.1.  I am not doing very much testing because 2.5.1 also
>>>>>> crashes when editing scheduled transactions, which I do nearly every day
>>>>>> in my real data, so I must go back quickly to 2.4.13.  I do not have any
>>>>>> problems with memory usage when 2.4.13 is running, so I suspect that
>>>>>> 2.5.1 may also have a memory leak.  Granted, I am not properly equipped
>>>>>> to test that hypothesis.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I chose the thread title specifically to break away from the Time for
>>>>>> 2.5.1 thread.  I suppose I should have either called it a 2.5.2 request
>>>>>> or Another 2.5.1 bug.  I do think it should be tested in Windows by a
>>>>>> developer before releasing 2.5.2.  It is not that hard to open one or
>>>>>> two reports in a test file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually, I am running Ubuntu 12.04 part time on my laptop.
>>>>>> Unfortunately, I am also using some programs that have no Linux
>>>>>> counterpart, so I am not considering a total conversion.
>>>>> Sounds like "Another 2.5.1 bug" or even "More 2.5.1 bugs" would have been
>>>>> the best choice, unfortunately.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll try to find time to give trunk a spin in Win7 later this week. Aside
>>>>> from the GtkTreeView register not that much has changed in Gnucash itself,
>>>>> so perhaps we've been a little too aggressive in updating the dependencies
>>>>> for the Win32 package.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually the chart reports did change as well. They are now based on jqplot (a javascript libary) instead of gnuplot. So this may have introduced a new issue.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> That was three months ago, before 2.5.0.
>> didn't he compare 2.4.13 and 2.5.1? If yes than first one is before
>> 2.5.0 and second after.
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> Regards
>> Johannes
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> I did not try reports in release 2.5.0 because it was hard not to crash
> it.  Remember, this is in Windows 7 64 bit.
>
> I think 2.4.13 is the version that finally was able to put 2 charts in
> one report again, but I only tested the Asset barchart and found it to
> be basically working. 
>
> I did test the dates list in the asset barchart report on May 1 and
> found that there was still an issue that I documented in bug 6994390.  I
> believe that was in release 2.4.13 as I downloaded it on April 23. 
> Obviously there is output to view in that release.
>
> I tested the same report once as a side issue while I was testing
> scheduled transactions and found that it produced a blank page, but some
> other report did create visible output.  I did not test it sufficiently
> to report, but I mentioned somewhere that I would be getting back to it
> later.
>
> This thread is reporting on the asset barchart report in Release 2.5.1. 
> Before I had distractions I had already found that the report produced a
> blank page and saving the page as a pdf produced a blank page when I
> viewed it with Adobe Reader.  I felt that it was important to point out
> that the net worth linechart left open from previous use was also
> blank.  While these reports are slow to produce, I did wait for them to
> complete, which they did.
>
> Someone asked how large is my test file.  Windows Explorer says that it
> is 3,127 kb as a compressed xml file.  It is essentially complete from
> October 1, 2007 to present, with lots of detail.  I believe that I am
> using the Unity theme.
>
> I have now reloaded 2.5.1 and again the existing net worth linechart is
> blank but I can change options if I want to.  I have created a balance
> sheet report and it appears to be ok.  A newly created asset piechart
> report is blank and the options can be changed.  The asset barchart is
> much slower to build, as it is in release 2.4.13 and earlier.  Memory
> usage is climbing, currently at 77 % of 6 gig.  Closing Firefox brought
> it back down to  56%
>
> The assets over time report is blank.  I have now selected to show the
> table.  I keep forgetting to time it but it probably takes about 5
> minutes with the default settings.  This is a G630 2.7 Ghz pentium 64
> bit  CPU.   OK, the report does show the table, as I thought it might,
> but the space above the table is blank.
>
> The Welcome to GnuCash report only shows the Account summary, but none
> of the other charts.
>
> David C
>
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Since I was in my download directory, I re-installed 2.5.0 and found
that the chart reports are blank in tat release too.

David C
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