Quicken wallet checks user hack
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 17 13:59:14 EDT 2004
On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> *insert standard disclaimer about how the check printing needs to be
> re-written*
>
But if it had already been rewritten, I wouldn't be learning all this
stuff about making software work...
> The glade file, print.glade, just needs an extra label in the menu.
> The c file just needs (again) an extra label in the string-array, to
> map from the menu label to the scheme label.
>
Oh my, that looks easy...
> And then, of course, you need your generic scheme.
>
Not as easy, but as long as gnc:*stock-check-positions* doesn't give me
too much heartburn, I think I can manage.
>
> The PS is generated each time through. So long as you only make the
> font-code run for your particular check-format it wont interfere with
> anyone else. You can test this by printing to a file and running
> ghostscript (gs) on the output file to see. Works much better than
> wasting paper (or checks).
OK. If I don't stumble too badly on the generic scheme without font
changes, I'll give this a try. OTOH, there's a fair amount of danger in
hard-coding a font choice, and I'm clearly not up to the task of adding
a font picker.
> -derek
>
Dave
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net
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