Charts in OS X

[David Reiser]

Rudye,

I'm bit out of my element with Macports. I thought there is a specific  
incantation in macports lingo to force guile16 as gnucash's target.  
but anyway...

gnumeric and gnucash do nominally use the same graphics library  
functions -- libgoffice, if I'm remembering correctly. And it probably  
matters which version of cairo libgoffice is using (or not using). And  
that in turn may be interacting badly with gtk+. So, I'm afraid I  
can't help much.

Fink is more careful about maintaining backward compatibility of  
libraries than macports is (but an awful lot of fink's gnome is  
ancient because of that persnickety bit. May change by January, but...).

Dave
On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Rudye McGlothlin wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On my system the colors seem to be messed up, but only for the  
> charts.  The register and icons are all fine.  Take the Net Worth  
> Bar Chart.  I get weird red and blue outlines to the axis numbers  
> and titles, but no axis and no actual chart.  It is just white in  
> the middle.  On the other hand, the Expense Pie Chart, which has a  
> lot of segments, I get a chart.  But the colors are pale and washed  
> out.  The legend, title, and borders are all the red and blue  
> outline instead of proper text.
>
> I just finished an upgrade trying to fix this problem.  Now, I'm  
> running Gnucash 2.2.1 r16462.  I installed it via Macports.  And I'm  
> running OS X 10.4.11 on a PowerBook G4.  I'm not getting any error  
> messages.
>
> I had to set up a lot of symbolic links to get Gnucash to recognize  
> Guile16 as Guile.  It took a lot of head-wall interaction to get it  
> worked out, but once I did the installation went smoothly.
>
> Last night, I also installed Gnumeric to see if chart worked in  
> that.  Don't they use the same library functions?  As far as I can  
> tell, the charts work fine in that program.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Rudye
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 12:08 AM, David Reiser wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:07 AM, Rudye McGlothlin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can anyone confirm that they have a up-to-date Gnucash installation
>>> on OS X where the charts work correctly?
>>>
>>> I'm spinning my wheels trying to get them to display on my system,
>>> and I'm out of ideas.  I'm wondering if they work for anyone.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rudye
>>>
>> Depending on what you mean by working correctly, I think I have such
>> an installation. And I built it on a complete reinstall of fink and
>> gnucash on a clean install of Leopard, so I don't think there are any
>> missing dependencies in the .info file.
>>
>> I get colored graph segments that seem to match the legend
>> descriptions, and probably match my data. I don't use the charts much
>> at all because my cash swings are too irregular to look pretty. (And
>> I've never been willing to wrestle with options enough to trim things
>> down in any intelligible way.)
>>
>> Are you getting any error messages in the terminal window? What  
>> system
>> version? What gnucash version? What fink version?
>>
>> Dave
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>>
>>
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