Feature report
Dave Peticolas
dave@krondo.com
19 Jul 2001 13:41:43 -0700
On 19 Jul 2001 12:58:19 +0200, Georg Wilckens wrote:
> Hello hackers,
> 2. General Ledger
>
> On hitting the "Report" or the "Print" button, gnucash always
> crashes with a segfault (gnome error-message-box).
Are there any error messages on the command line?
> 3. Sorting of transactions
>
> Many of my transactions are numbered. When I enter a series of say
> 10 transactions from one day, sometimes gnucash seems to get
> confused and stores later transactions (with higher numbers) above
> some earlier transactions from the same day. This happens on
> default sort order. If I change the sort order to go by transaction
> numbers, this problem goes away but the balance on the right is not
> adjusted accordingly (the final balance might not show up on the
> bottom). This is probably not a bug, but handling this differently
> seems more convenient to me.
The problem here is that the number field is stored and sorted
as a string (it's actually allowed to be anything you want, it
doesn't have to be a number). But it might be better to detect
if it's a number and sort appropriately.
thanks,
dave