[GNC-dev] Pie Chart

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Fri Feb 1 15:30:51 EST 2019


On 1/31/19 6:05 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> Thanks for feedback.
>
> Most of these issues are not caused by reports but rather webkit/UI
> issues :) I haven't found way to trigger report drill-down without an
> intermediate "Load" anchor.


Hopefully you can request an enhancement from them.

>
> Try refreshing my branch. Latest developments: the yAxis amounts are
> now formatted correctly according to locale; US users see "$1,000.00"
> "€1,000.00*"* whereas some EU users wil see "1.000,00 $" "1.000,00
> €*"*. These things matter in an internationally focussed program :)


The scaling looks much better.  Hopefully you have an EU person that can
validate their experience.  It looks good from the US perspective.


>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 09:56, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>
>     Took me awhile to figure out how to drill down.  Double clicking
>     didn't
>     do it.  I finally noticed the small print in the upper left corner
>     that
>     I eventually determined said "load".  Clicking that took me to the
>     child
>     accounts of the one originally clicked.  However, there was no
>     "unload"
>     to go back up a level.  Only path was deeper.
>
>     Once at the deepest account, the transaction window did open and
>     it was
>     easy to close that -- but still no method to back out to the original
>     chart (that I could determine).
>
>     I wonder if there is something more intuitive than the small print
>     "load" to do a drill down.
>
>     OK.  Accidentally found the "back" option under the right click.  Only
>     found it because I was thinking that a double click would be a natural
>     go deeper signal -- so what would be a corresponding "go back"
>     signal? 
>     Double right click??  Tried that and found that right click did
>     bring up
>     the option menu to navigate back.
>
>     So then started playing with the options on the right click. 
>     Found that
>     forward worked the same as "load" but only until at the lowest
>     account. 
>     Had to left click and then click on "load" to get the transaction
>     listing.  To be consistent, the Forward menu item should also work in
>     that case and bring up the transaction details.
>
>     I tried the "Inspect Element" item and decided I didn't want to know
>     what that was about!  <<grin>>
>
>     Hmm.  Forward isn't consistent.  Only available if you have previously
>     gone down a level by clicking on load. 
>
>     So you have to left click on the area of interest then left click on
>     load and only then will the Forward/Back items on the right click be
>     available.  That's awkward.
>
>     How about a double left click automatically goes down on the area
>     clicked or always allow a Forward if the user right clicks on the
>     area. 
>     In that case go deeper on the area on which the left click
>     happened.  Or
>     allow both methods.  I'm thinking the "load" in the upper left is
>     cumbersome and rather not have it.
>
>     Never could figure out when the "stop" item is available.
>
>     --Steve
>
>     On 1/29/19 7:36 PM, Christopher Lam wrote:
>     > Hello
>     >
>     > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 09:31, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>     <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
>     > <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     So far, my only negative is with the Average balance chart. 
>     It's too
>     >     tall and I lose the captions at the bottom (I maybe see 1 or 2
>     >     pixels of
>     >     them).  When I scroll down then I lose the chart title at the
>     >     top.  I am
>     >     running 1920x1080 (16:9)
>     >
>     >
>     > Agree - this is caused by *all* charts default to use 100% page
>     size;
>     > I think they should be reduced to 80%, with no (IMHO) negative
>     > consequences.
>     >
>     >     > Hint: new features added, and old features resurrected:
>     >     > - clicky links from pie/line/bar graphs to drill down into
>     >     > sub-charts,sub-reports, or register (this was disabled
>     >10yrs ago?)
>     >
>     >     SMB:  I don't think I made it to the register.  Just saw the
>     >     non-selected sections expand to fill the pie.
>     >
>     >
>     > Try: Asset/Income/Expense/Liability Chart and keep drilling down.
>     > I think the Income/Expense over time may be modified to launch the
>
>     Rather take advantage of the heat wave and remove some dead trees from the property.
>
>     > Transaction Report highlighting relevant period. TBD tonight :)
>     >  
>     >
>     >     SMB:  At least you have the end-of-year set correctly. 
>     origin/maint
>     >     3.4-50 has a problem.  Separate email.
>     >
>     >  
>     > This end-of-year is the exact same bug currently affecting maint. My
>     > branch currently reverts the offending commit, so, cannot be
>     > considered safe to ship, but is adequate for testing. Thank you for
>     > feedback!
>



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