Add own currencies?

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:13 +0000, Daniel Kraft wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm wondering if it is possible to add your own currencies to a 
> gnucash-file (like it is possible for stocks/funds) - I'm using gnucash 
> 2.0.1.

Not without compiling the program yourself.

> The problem is when I want to book virtual currencies between multiple 

What do you mean by "virtual currency"?  Linden dollars?  Describing the
problem always works better than describing a proposed solution.

> accounts, it isn't really nice to book them as funds; it seems that you 
> can only buy/sell funds for a specific amount of money in gnucash, while 
> I wound need to transfer simply a specific amount of *shares* from one 
> account to each other.

You can set the price to zero.  I don't know how this will affect
capital gains calculations once they're enabled.

> So what I need is a way to simply create my own currency with a manually 
> entered value (preferred option) or to transfer *shares* instead of 
> money from accounts which use the same security of type fund.

>From a stock or mutual fund account, just sell '-n' shares for a price
of zero and buy 'n' shares in the other account, also for a price of
zero.  For that matter, as long as the buy and sell price are the same
you should get the same effect.

David