GnuCash Portable 2.2.4 Development Test

Downloaded and installed - works fine, so far. A nice piece of work. Thanks rayven01.

Regards,

Kim

Someone should let Lifehacker know

Side-note: John, mention of TBP here. Add to the press page if you wish. Also, I'm waiting for an email

Be nice if there was a discription of what GnuCash does. I like going through the beta testing list, but it sucks when I come across programs that don't have any descriptions!!! No offense.

Good work, I just uploaded a torrent, so all people can just download it, share their local copy and help spreading and testing the new version.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1062925

I have used the latest nightly build (available at http://cyberbird.yi.org/gnucash/) of Gnucash to produce a "bleeding edge" version of Portable Gnucash using rayven01's NSIS script. If anyone else want to try it - it's quite simple to do, but remember the usual warnings about trusting your precious personal financial data to test software.

However, when compiling the NSIS script - it fails at the newadvsplash::wait command found in the last couple of lines of the NSIS code. If I comment it out, the script compiles happily, and Gnucash Portable will run successfully. I am compiling on a HP Compaq nc2400 notebook running XP - but without admin privileges. I have looked at the NSIS forum, but see no comments about newadvsplash plugin errors.

The actual NSIS error message is --> Invalid command: newadvsplash::wait

Rayven01 - any ideas? Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question. I can take it to the NSIS forum. I am pretty certain that this is not a Gnucash problem. The newadvsplash command syntax is simple, and I am sure that I have the latest NSIS plugin - which leads me to think that the error may be an odd bug related to compiling the NSIS script without admin privileges???

Finally, is there any downside in commenting out that final offending newadvsplash::wait line?

I have tried to test this revised version but thus far haven't been able to launch the application beyond the splash screen. I'm including the 'launch log' below and I'm going to try another approach in the mean time.

SysSpecs:

Windows 2000 SP4
-ActiveDirectory log in as an administrator

[27/12/2007 13:06 17] NoINI: No INI file found, setting defaults
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] NoINI: EXE found in E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\bin\gnucash-bin.exe
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] FoundProgramEXE: Checking for another instance of gnucash-bin.exe, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CheckRegistry: Tested registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNUCASH, returned -1
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CreateKeys: Aqbanking keys created, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CreateKeys: Gwenhywfar keys created, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CreateKeys: Created Aqbanking values, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CreateKeys: Created Gwenhywfar values, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CheckProfile: Checking for Profile
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] ProfileFound: Checking for settings directory
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SettingsFound: Checking for fixes directory
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CheckWrite: Checking RUNLOCALLY
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CheckWrite: RUNLOCALLY false, checking write access to profile directory E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\Data\Profile
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] WriteSuccessful: Write successful
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] DisplaySplash: Checking DISABLESPLASHSCREEN
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] DisplaySplash: DISABLESPLASHSCREEN false. Displaying splash screen.
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CompareProfilePath: Checking DISABLEINTELLIGENTSTART
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CompareProfilePath: DISABLEINTELLIGENTSTART false. Comparing last profile path, OS and version to determine whether to run fixes
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CompareProfilePath: Profile path 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\Data\Profile' same as last run.  Checking OS.
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CompareProfilePath: OS '2000' same as last run.  Checking version.
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] CompareProfilePath: Version 0.2.0.0 same as last run.  Skipping fixes.
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: Setting environment variables
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: PATH: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\bin;E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\lib;E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\lib\gnucash;C:\Perl\bin'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED: 'no'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: GNC_MODULE_PATH: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\lib\gnucash'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: GUILE_LOAD_PATH: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\share\gnucash\guile-modules;E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\share\gnucash\scm;E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\share\guile\1.6'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\lib'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: QOF_LIB_DIR: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\lib\gnucash'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: HOME: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\Data\Profile'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: TMP: 'E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\Data\Profile\Temp'
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: Checking launch parameters
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] SetEnv: No launch parameters found
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] AdditionalParemeters: Adding additional parameters: ''
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] NoLog: No log file specified.  Pointing GnuCash log to .\NUL
[27/12/2007 13:06 17] WaitForProgram: Launching and waiting for GnuCash with EXECSTRING='"E:\PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash\bin\gnucash-bin.exe"  --logto ".\NUL"'
[27/12/2007 13:06 18] WaitForProgram: GnuCash exited
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] WaitForGconfd: checking for gconfd-2.exe, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] CleanupAQReg: Checking source of Aqbanking key: GnuCashPortable
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] CleanupAQReg: Confirmed source and deleted Aqbanking reg key, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] CleanupGwenReg: Checking source of Gwenhywfar key: GnuCashPortable
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] CleanupGwenReg: Confirmed source and deleted Gwenhywfar reg key, returned 0
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] Cleanup: DELETETRANSACTIONLOG true, checking lock file.
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] Cleanup: No lock file, GnuCash exited cleanly.  Deleting transaction log(s)
[27/12/2007 13:06 20] TheEnd: Waiting for Splash screen
[27/12/2007 13:06 22] TheEnd: Exiting

Thanks rayven01,

NSIS script problem solved. Good detective work. So much for my theory about admin privileges! The pitfalls of (probably unnecessary) command syntax changes breaking code.

While testing the latest version of GNUCash I encountered a problem, in that some of my accounts can only be downloaded as CVS (comma separated variable) files. Doing a little searching around I have come across a program to do the conversion.
The link is
http://xl2qif.chez-alice.fr/calc2qif_en.php

The program you download is a zip file that has the calc2qif macro inside. This is set up to be loaded into OpenOffice so I guess I'm going to do a dual beta test, i.e. does the macro load into Calc portable and does the converted file load into GNUCash.

I thought that there might be some other folks out there with the same problem and you might like the link above.

New stable Gnucash version 2.2.3 released - NSIS script builds fine with it. I assume a new portable version will be released sometime soon.

GnuCash Portable Live does not work as described.

I have copied GNUCashPortable.ini to GNUCashPortable directory and I have set RunLocally=true.

But that is followed by an "error-Message":

'GnuCash, Portable Edition appears to be running from a location that is read-only. Would you like to temporarily copy it to the local hard drive an run it from there ?

Privacy Note: If you say Yes, your personal data within GnuCash, Portable Edition will be temporarily copied to a local drive. Although this copy of your data will be deleted when you close GnuCash, Portable Edition, it may be possible for someone else to access your data later.'

My GNUCashPortable.ini looks like:

[GnucashPortable]
GnucashDirectory=App\Gnucash
ProfileDirectory=Data\Profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\Settings
FixesDirectory=Data\Fixes
GnucashExecutable=gnucash-bin.exe
LogFile=
AdditionalParameters=
WaitForGnucash=true
DisableSplashScreen=false
DeleteTransactionLog=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
RunLocally=true
PerlPath=C:\Perl\bin

What is wrong ?

Looks great, works great, has a lot of features. One comment, nothing wrong with the app itself, but you could do what John did with the GIMP splash screen and replace the default image used on program loading. to do this, convert the dev test splash screen to a png file, rename it to "gnucash_splash.png", then move that file to "GnuCashPortable\App\GnuCash\share\gnucash\pixmaps"

-- I downloaded the latest version drilling down via the hyperlink to Sourceforge, but so far have been unable to seek out an MD5 hash anywhere to help validate that I got a good binary download. Any help in finding same (or posting it in this forum thread)?
-- I've been checking out the previous P-Apps version and found it a good app. Still evaluating GNUcash and hope to provide fuller feedback later.

---eom

I just installed GNUCash on my PortableApps drive and the program seems to run fine, except that I can't get the wizard to complete the on-line banking setup without crashing the program. Anyone have any suggestions on what to try? Thanks.