[Kmymoney-devel] build-dep kmymoney (was: Feature request: improved / additional currency conversion)

[Software at quantentunnel.de]

Hi Jack

Thanks; worked nicely. Shouldn't this package be included with 'apt-get build-dep kmymoney'; for the benefit of other newcomers?

Best

Al_ 

PS: I was out of town for the week, thus my late thank.


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Von: Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>
> An: Software at quantentunnel.de, kmymoney-devel at kde.org
> Betreff: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Feature request: improved / additional currency conversion

> Hello Al,
> 
> GMP is a library for arbitrary precision math, from http://gmplib.org/.  
> Depending on your distro, you should find a gmp-dev package, or something
> like 
> it.  (By the way, subversion uses checkout, git uses clone.)  
> 
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: "Software at quantentunnel.de" <Software at quantentunnel.de>
> To: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
> Sent: Sat, October 22, 2011 12:14:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Kmymoney-devel] Feature request: improved / additional
> currency 
> conversion
> 
> Thanks, Thomas. After thinking a bit more and reading
> kmymoneycalculator.cpp I 
> agree that the calculator widget is more appropriate than a plugin. So, I
> will 
> give it a try; but need your help already to compile kmymoney.
> 
> I cloned the subversion repo of kmymoney. As this is the first KDE app
> that I 
> try to compile, I needed to download a bunch of libs 
> (desktop:~/Temp/kmymoney/build$ sudo apt-get build-dep kmymoney).
> Unluckily, 
> cmake (desktop:~/Temp/kmymoney/build$ cmake ..
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/) 
> still reports errors: "Could NOT find GMP (missing: GMP_INCLUDE_DIR 
> GMP_LIBRARIES)" 
> 
> 
> Any idea how to resolve?
> 
> Best
> 
> Al_
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> on Tuesday 18 October 2011 19:59:28 Software at quantentunnel.de wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > One feature in MS Money was handy that I miss in KMyMoney: entering
> amounts
> > in a foreign currency. Typical example are credit card purchases during
> > vacation: the customer copy lists, e.g., USD but the credit card company
> > will be me in Euro. In MS Money I could enter the amount in USD, then
> > press F8 which pops up a dialog where I can choose the destination
> > currency (Euro). This dialog looks otherwise similar to the currency
> > conversion dialog that KMyMoney presents when transferring money between
> > accounts with different currencies. And yes, I realize that this will
> only
> > give approximate amounts as the credit card company most often applies a
> > slightly different exchange rate. Nevertheless, it becomes obvious
> during
> > reconciliation whether the amount can be correct or is fraudulent.
> > 
> > Instead of F8, I suggest to include a button "Convert to ..." in the
> pop-up
> > calculator, in addition to basic math (+ - / * %).
> > ... 
> > PS: I am an amateur C++ / Qt4 programmer. Do you believe I could
> contribute
> > to a "Convert to ..." plugin?
> 
> Certainly, you can give it a try. We can direct you to the right spot. I
> am 
> not sure, if a plugin would be the right solution, but I haven't thought
> about 
> it either.
> 
> The calculator is organized as an object and can easily be modified. It is
> automatically available for all amount widgets throughout the application.
> 
> p.s. Please send furhter mails to kmymoney-devel at kde.org as this is the
> new 
> developer list.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Thomas Baumgart
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