kudos and a problem with the "welcome" report

[Kevin Finn]

     An update after playing around with this today - if I go into the
reports menu and select the "welcome extravaganza" report, it does come
up correctly and after that it seems to work when I restart.

     Another interesting thing that I ran into was while customizing the
"income accounts" report - if I edit the report options, go to the
accounts tab, and control-click to remove one of the preselected
accounts (for example, I have separate accounts for "gross pay" and
"bonuses", and I don't want to include bonuses when I'm budgeting for
the future), when I click "OK" to exit the options dialog I see all of
the accounts get deselected so there is no income account chart visible
in the main screen.  After this happens, even if I go back and "select
default" in the accounts options, I can't get the report to display
because the same thing happens.

     Kevin



Kevin Finn wrote:
> 
>      Unfortunately, although the "Welcome" report came up fine the first
> one or two times I launched GnuCash, after that I seemed to get some
> corruption in the config-1.6.auto file and the report wouldn't load.
> The config file had:
> 
> (gnc:config-file-format-version 1)
> 
> ;GnuCash Configuration Options
> (<B4><C0>@(<B4><C0>@on: __gui       <<<<<<<< binary corruption
> 
> (let ((option (gnc:lookup-option gnc:*options-entries*
>                                  "__gui"
>                                  "reg_column_widths")))
>   ((lambda (option) (if option ((gnc:option-setter option) '(("transfer"
> . 250) ("debit" . 97) ("credit" . 97) ("balance" . 97) ("reconcile" .
> 20) ("description" . 245) ("num" . 53) ("date" . 114))))) option))
> ...
> 
> and I saw the following warning on startup:
> gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/home/kevin/.gnucash/config-1.6.auto"
> 
> Exiting and restarting seems to have fixed the corruption in my config
> file, but the report isn't fixed and still claims that an error occurred
> while running it.  Is there any way to get the error messages out of the
> report?  I'm thinking of something like the Netscape javascript
> console.  gnucash --debug didn't display any errors.  Can I somehow
> reinitialize my config-1.6.auto file so that the welcome report works
> again?
> 
>      Kevin
> 
> --

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Kevin Finn
kevinfinn@mediaone.net