[GNC-dev] New balsheet (and P&L report), API considerations, and (slow?) KVP in Account.cpp

[Christopher Lam]

I've restored multilevel-subtotals... using an easier tack than 
previously: instead of keeping lists(1 per account-depth) of lists (1 
per column) of collectors, it'll just climb up the hierarchy and print 
parent acc's balance+children until the next account-depth is reached.

Please help beta test!

I've made some cosmetic changes too. eg dates in their own row, 
double-underline for grand-total only.

I do not think it'll be wise to reduce font sizes for account-depth.

Still remaining:

- fix negative signs strategy


On 03/07/18 16:17, Christopher Lam wrote:
> Broadly yes, one approach is that parent accounts always show totals 
> for themselves+children, the other approach is the totals appear after 
> each parent+children.
>
> Same information presented in 2 different ways.
>
> The difference is that the recursive subtotals are easier.... When 
> reaching an account, it just queries if it has children, and if yes 
> check if they have own amount, and if yes insert next line for own 
> account.
>
> Multilevel subtotals require collectors to keeping track of amounts 
> while cycling the account list.
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 15:41 Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be 
> <mailto:geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>> wrote:
>
>     Op dinsdag 3 juli 2018 02:57:50 CEST schreef Christopher Lam:
>     > Hi Stephen, Dave &al
>     >
>     > Thank you -
>     >
>     > Dave - the changes are merely cosmetic therefore easy.
>     >
>     > It sounds there are still 2 desired presentational types - (1)
>     Dave's
>     > approach = *recursive-bal* - 'parent' accounts generally collect
>     their
>     > children account amounts; if they also have their own amount,
>     the latter is
>     > rendered on the next line, indented as a child account. (2)
>     Stephen's
>     > approach = *multilevel-bal* - parent accounts' amounts are
>     hidden unless
>     > they exist.
>     >
>     I'm not sure I understand the difference here. Isn't this
>     expressing the same
>     thing twice in different ways ? Perhaps I'm missing a subtlety in
>     the English
>     language...
>
>     Or is the difference whether the totals are shown above or below
>     the children
>     ?
>
>     Geert
>
>