`Balance' dialog box.. what is it for.

[Bryan Phinney]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 12:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote:

> To make a text editor do those things would take extensive programmign
> skills.

However, to make a spreadsheet do this beyond trivial.  If all you want is a 
simple program to enter amounts into that does the subtraction and gives you 
a running balance, you might really want to try to put a simple spreadsheet 
together.  Would take me about 5 minutes, give you a full page of accounts, 
including checking, saving, investment, etc. and would very much simplify the 
process of doing what you seem to want to do.

Gnucash does a WHOLE lot more than that and in order to be useful to those of 
us who have more advanced needs than having an electronic copy of a check 
register, needs to use a double entry accounting system.  Dumbing down the 
program in order to fill a void that is supremely filled with various 
spreadsheets, electronic checkbook registers, and glorified pocket 
calculators is very unnecessary.

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Bryan Phinney