Changing defaults in Fancy Invoice

[Andrew Greig]

Hi Derek,

The links on that page that look for woozle.org stuff return 404s.

There is not much there that seems to launch me on my new career.

Andrew Greig




On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 20:57 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Andrew Greig
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
> >>
> >> > 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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> 
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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