Changing defaults in Fancy Invoice

[Derek Atkins]

Invoice "templates" would require something along the lines of eguile.
Such integration of eguile hasn't happened.   I SUSPECT that it would
only require work in scheme to get it to work, but I don't know for sure.
If you want to work on eguile integration I'd be happy to encourage you :)

-derek

Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:

> Thanks Derek,
>
> That sorted that out, 10 lines it is, now.  I also found out that if I
> change the font size, the rows enlarge to accommodate.  But now my
> invoice has spread off the right side of the page.  In the notes
> included in the fancy-invoice.scm file, it is suggested that the future
> may lie with html templates being supplied by various users, and the
> best selected for incorporation into gnc. Is that as easy as it sounds?
>
> I have a current Invoice Template I created in OpenOffice.org for A4
> page and DL window-faced envelopes, to make that into an html document
> should not be too hard.  Should I proceed down that path?
>
> Thanks
> Andrew Greig
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:11 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
>>
>> > Thanks Derek,
>> >
>> > I have searched the file and only found one reference to "24" and that
>> > was in the comments at line 335.  The only other thing I found which may
>> > be relevant is this:
>> >
>> > (gnc:register-inv-option
>> >   (gnc:make-number-range-option
>> >    (N_ "Display") (N_ "Minimum # of entries")
>> >    "u" (N_ "The minimum number of invoice entries to display. (-1)") 23
>> >    4 23 3 1))
>> >
>> > How should this be altered, to give me 10 entries? Or am I still on the
>> > wrong train?
>>
>> Nope, this is the right place.  The API for make-number-range-option
>> is defined in src/app-utils/options.scm which says tat those five
>> numbers are:  default-value, lower-bound, upper-bound, num-decimals,
>> and step-size.  So the default value is 23, the lower bound is 4,
>> the upper bound is 23.  I have no idea why the num-decimals is set
>> to 3.    So, change that first '23' to '9'.
>>
>> Be warned that every time you update gnucash you'll have to make
>> these same changes.
>>
>> > Andrew Greig
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>



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