[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 217, Issue 9

[Mike Commissaris]

Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnc 4.5 report charts do not render (blank screen)

Solved....
Thanks to Tommy and John for insights that helped me find my problem.
It's embarrassing, but I discovered I created my GNC launcher pointing to
the binary in my build directory instead of the opt install directory.
Everything now seems to work perfectly.
Thanks again

Mike

>
>
> > MX-Linux 19.3_64
> > Built release 4.5. Textual reports work fine. However any report that
> > involves graphics does not render. Report loads and settings are
> available
> > but screen renders blank.
> > I also have versions 4.3 and 4.4 installed in their own directories -
> they
> > both render normally.
> >
>
> Hi -- The first thing I suggest is running GnuCash from a terminal and
> watch for error messages on the console. I might suspect a problem with the
> charting library (is it still jqplot ?) and it may be as simple as making
> sure the jqplot library files are in the right place when you compile it.
> OR it may be something more complicated having to do with webkit (which
> renders reports) in your distribution OR...
>
> Be sure to report back to the list because others are likely to know a lot
> 700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Commissaris <commissaris.mike at gmail.com>, gnucash-user
>         <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnc 4.5 report charts do not render (blank screen)
> Message-ID: <54AFD6C9-0DAF-49E6-830C-8DF2E1FE5A9F at ceridwen.us>
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> > On Apr 4, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:07 PM Mike Commissaris <
> commissaris.mike at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> MX-Linux 19.3_64
> >> Built release 4.5. Textual reports work fine. However any report that
> >> involves graphics does not render. Report loads and settings are
> available
> >> but screen renders blank.
> >> I also have versions 4.3 and 4.4 installed in their own directories -
> they
> >> both render normally.
> >>
> >
> > Hi -- The first thing I suggest is running GnuCash from a terminal and
> > watch for error messages on the console. I might suspect a problem with
> the
> > charting library (is it still jqplot ?) and it may be as simple as making
> > sure the jqplot library files are in the right place when you compile it.
> > OR it may be something more complicated having to do with webkit (which
> > renders reports) in your distribution OR...
> >
> > Be sure to report back to the list because others are likely to know a
> lot
> > more than I do.
>
> We don't use jqplot any more because it was no longer maintained. We use
> chartjs now.
>
> Graphs not drawing has in the past been down to the javascript thread that
> renders the chart not sending the bits back to the GtkWebKitWebView thread
> for drawing.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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