new experiences with gc 1.6.0

[Dave Peticolas]

On 08 Jul 2001 17:43:35 +0200, Poldi Winkler wrote:
> hello together,
> thanks to Stephan Kahnt (he has created the Binaries for SuSE 7.1) 
> and after it I could install gc 1.6 without problems. Weeks before 
> I have tried to compile the sources - it was impossible for me (the 
> last error was:
> " configure: error: gal library not found. " 
> - gal, gal-devel, and and and  i have installed of course.
> But anyway now it is running.
> And with this success I have got the next problem (I know it is 
> normal).
> In gc 1.4.9  I use mutual funds and in the register I can buy or 
> sell shares and I can put in also the DAILY PRICES- the balancing 
> is calculating at once the new price with the shares - perfect.
> Now it is not longer possible in the new register (the old one 
> -bought, sold, price, value, stock shares, balancing and the new 
> one shares, price, buy, sell and share balance). 
> Therefor I have tried to use the price editor( In the help is only 
> the situation of gc 1.4). I can add, delete and correct a price, 
> but I didn't found a possibility to SEE the prices of the last days 
> or months or whatever. And I couldn't find a graph (not yet ?) for 
> seeing the developments of the prices in the past. 
> Where can I find the old prices and what possibility is there to 
> get an overview about the development of the stocks?

Try the graph Report->Assets & Liabilities->Price Scatterplot.
You will need to click 'Options' and set the commodity for
which you want to graph the prices.


> I followed the discussion about the "user of gc", I am a ordinary 
> user! 

Hello there :)

dave