Changing defaults in Fancy Invoice

[Andrew Greig]

Derek,

Does one need to be a programmer to take this path?  I would be happy to
contribute (my current involvement with things OpenSource, is to be a
distributor of OOo) but I am not a programmer.  The learning may be fun
though.

Andrew Greig






On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:42 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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