Budgeting prototype

[Chris Roland]

This is great!  Looks similar to Quickens budgeting feature and application 
flow, which worked extremely well.

- Chris 

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 4:41 pm, Darin Willits wrote:
> Ok, I finally got some screen shots put together for my ideas on the
> budgeting interface in gnucash.  They are really rough but give you an
> idea of the direction I would like to head.  You can find them here:
>
> http://www.darin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
>
> They don't really show any new ideas which haven't already been covered
> in the discussion so far but I find that laying things out in a (semi)
> concrete way often helps me focus and refine my ideas.
>
> Although I personally prefer the workbench style approach there might be
> a better way to tackle this.  I personally think that separating the UI
> (as well as the data) would make for a better user experience.  I agree
> with the sentiment that budgets and account trees should be separate
> entities.  One *is* an essentially imaginary, pie in the sky concept
> while the other is concrete (often depressing...) reality.  They are
> definitely linked (categories have related accounts) but are not one and
> the same.
>
> However my hope is to create a set of data which could be used in other
> parts of the application hopefully enabling a wealth of financial
> planning features down the road.  But for now we have to start
> somewhere.
>
> I am hoping to flesh out some ideas for the data structures over the
> next couple days and then get to the business of spewing out code.  I
> don't know how far I will be able to get in the next few weeks but I am
> hoping at the very least to get some sort of foundation in place.  After
> that I will be back to part time work on this as I will be moving house
> across the ocean and doing some hard core job hunting!
>
> Thoughts/criticisms/concerns are as always welcome. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darin
>
>
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