'Get online quotes' greyed out..

[Jeremy Johnson]

OK, problem located. It's a bug, but probably not in
Gnucash.

When I installed Gnucash I also downloaded some
launcher Applescripts called XDroplets:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~fuhrer/personal/freestuff/xdroplets/

When launching Gnucash via its xDroplet the
Finance::Quote fields in the stock editor window
remain greyed because Gnucash fails to find F::Q even
though it's properly installed. However when I launch
Gnucash from the Xterm command line everything works
fine. Somewhere along the line some variables/paths
are getting lost when using the Applescript droplet.
Problem solved.

Many thanks again for your assistance Derek & David.

Jeremy.


--- David Hampton
<hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 21:59 +0000, Jeremy Johnson
> wrote:
> 
> > But the checkbox to tell Gnucash that I want to
> > automtically retrieve stock prices remains greyed
> out.
> 
> This means that for whatever reason gnucash can't
> see the F::Q install.
> The problem sounds familiar.  I think its something
> to do with the Fink
> version of gnucash looking for F::Q in one place
> (/sw ??) while the
> update-finance-quote program installs it in another
> (/usr).  Check the
> mailing list archives.
> 
> >  When I click 'Get quotes' in the price editor it
> says
> > 'No accounts marked for quote retrieval' and when
> I
> > run 'gnucash --add-price-quotes $HOME/gnucash.xac'
> I
> > get the same message.
> 
> This is a red herring.  Fix the earlier problem and
> this should work.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>