Graph representing the evolution of an account?

[Christian Stimming]

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Oh, have you tried the barchart with stacked bars? Or only with single bars 
side-by-side? Maybe the stacked bars are in fact readable for you. If the 
"view stacked bars" option doesn't work for you, you need to upgrade Guppi. 
(I think 0.35.3 or so is necessary.)

On Friday 29 March 2002 20:23, Gurvan Huiban wrote:
> As you guessed, I thought about a
> lineplot; something very simple, readable, which gives you an overview of
> the evolution of an account during time. I find strange that, on a software
> like Gnucash, such a function has never been implemented... Much simpler
> finance manager (cbb, for instance) have this function buit-in!

That's a problem of the graphical toolkit we are using (Guppi). Every once in 
a while somebody almost volunteers to implement line graphs, but nobody has 
spent enough time on it. See
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2002-February/005692.html

> Moreover, (at least on my computer), the "asset barchart graph" has
> difficulties to deal with negative numbers (which can happen for a bank
> account; even if it is never nice when it happens...)

Right, I've noticed that before and I think that's due to Guppi problems as 
well. On the other hand, how should negative numbers be displayed in a 
stacked barchart anyway? The principle of this chart makes sense pretty much 
only for nonnegative numbers.

Christian
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