Changing defaults in Fancy Invoice

[Derek Atkins]

No O'Reilly book.  But the MIT Scheme documentation available online
might help you.

e-guile: http://woozle.org/~neale/repos/eguile/eguile.html

-derek

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

> Touche, Derek.
>
> Which O'Reilly book will I have to wade through.  A google for eguile
> has revealed a lot of stale info (circa 2002).  Is there a good online
> source of info of which you are aware?
>
> Surf's up, jump in.
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> Andrew Greig
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> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 20:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Well, it will require a little scheme hacking..  It depends on your
>> definition of being a programmer.  I mean, you've already made changes
>> to the source code in your current work, so by MY definition you ARE
>> a programmer..
>>
>> -derek
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>> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
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>> > 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
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>> > 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
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>> >> > 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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