Changing defaults in Fancy Invoice

[Derek Atkins]

Well, it will require a little scheme hacking..  It depends on your
definition of being a programmer.  I mean, you've already made changes
to the source code in your current work, so by MY definition you ARE
a programmer..

-derek

Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:

> Derek,
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> Does one need to be a programmer to take this path?  I would be happy to
> contribute (my current involvement with things OpenSource, is to be a
> distributor of OOo) but I am not a programmer.  The learning may be fun
> though.
>
> Andrew Greig
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> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:42 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Invoice "templates" would require something along the lines of eguile.
>> Such integration of eguile hasn't happened.   I SUSPECT that it would
>> only require work in scheme to get it to work, but I don't know for sure.
>> If you want to work on eguile integration I'd be happy to encourage you :)
>>
>> -derek
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>> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
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>> > Thanks Derek,
>> >
>> > That sorted that out, 10 lines it is, now.  I also found out that if I
>> > change the font size, the rows enlarge to accommodate.  But now my
>> > invoice has spread off the right side of the page.  In the notes
>> > included in the fancy-invoice.scm file, it is suggested that the future
>> > may lie with html templates being supplied by various users, and the
>> > best selected for incorporation into gnc. Is that as easy as it sounds?
>> >
>> > I have a current Invoice Template I created in OpenOffice.org for A4
>> > page and DL window-faced envelopes, to make that into an html document
>> > should not be too hard.  Should I proceed down that path?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Andrew Greig
>> >
>> >
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>> > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:11 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks Derek,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have searched the file and only found one reference to "24" and that
>> >> > was in the comments at line 335.  The only other thing I found 
>> which may
>> >> > be relevant is this:
>> >> >
>> >> > (gnc:register-inv-option
>> >> >   (gnc:make-number-range-option
>> >> >    (N_ "Display") (N_ "Minimum # of entries")
>> >> >    "u" (N_ "The minimum number of invoice entries to display. (-1)") 23
>> >> >    4 23 3 1))
>> >> >
>> >> > How should this be altered, to give me 10 entries? Or am I still on the
>> >> > wrong train?
>> >>
>> >> Nope, this is the right place.  The API for make-number-range-option
>> >> is defined in src/app-utils/options.scm which says tat those five
>> >> numbers are:  default-value, lower-bound, upper-bound, num-decimals,
>> >> and step-size.  So the default value is 23, the lower bound is 4,
>> >> the upper bound is 23.  I have no idea why the num-decimals is set
>> >> to 3.    So, change that first '23' to '9'.
>> >>
>> >> Be warned that every time you update gnucash you'll have to make
>> >> these same changes.
>> >>
>> >> > Andrew Greig
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>> >> -derek
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