help, I've misplaced my decimal...

[Dave Peticolas]

Alex Zepeda writes:
> So I went to upgrade to the latest and greatest supported GNUCash version
> (whatever's in the FreeBSD ports tree, 1.4.11).
> 
> The first thing that hit me was that gnucash was somehow magically trying
> to link in an old version of libc (4 versus, the only one on my system
> libc.so.5).  I imagine this is some sort of artifact of using the fbsd
> ports for that.  But hey, it makes managing the insane dependencies much
> easier.
> 
> The real problem however was when I went to edit the account.  Well 
> actually register mode brought up two problems.
> 
> 1.) When resizing the columns, there should be an easier way to keep the
> columns lined up so they don't dazzle the user in two-line mode.  Column 
> wrapping does weird things visually.

I'm not sure what you mean by column wrapping. Could you explain?


> 2.) Everything got rounded.  If I set the account to a "Currency" or some
> other account along those lines it displayed the proper values, albeit
> with the wrong headings.  If I set the account to what it really is.. a
> bank account, gnucash decided to go into what I'll assume was integer
> banking mode.  Pretty useless.  This was the biggest stumbling block.  Any 
> ideas how to get my precious decimal places back?

This is very odd. All of the decimal places were being truncated?  You
might try setting your LANG environment variable to en_US (assuming
that is your locale) when running gnucash.

dave