[grisbi-devel] Grisbi 0.9.93 and check for This account cannot be negative

[Jean-Luc Duflot]

Hi Martin,

The fact is this point has been much discussed on the french mailing 
list. The main point of view is a cash account reflects the content of a 
purse, which keeps only coins and banknotes. So it cannot be negative, 
never. In your example, you modify an amount which makes the balance 
negative, but this transaction is not real. Before doing this, you might 
write a positive transaction so that the balance will stay positive or 
nul. It's exactly what can only happen in a purse.

Jean-Luc

Le 23/11/2013 13:45, Martin Stromberger a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've downladed and compiled grisbi-0.9.93, works so far fine, except the
> check for cash_accounts and "This account cannot be negative"
>
> Example:
> I've a cash_account withh e.g transaction A, B and C, the balance of the
> this account is +100 EUR. When I try to modifiy the value of transcation
> B following message is displayed: "This account cannot be negative".
> I've played around a little, it looks like
> in case of an update above message is displayed if the modified
> transaction is not the last transaction in the list. The message is not
> displayed in case of a new transaction or update of the last transaction
> in the list.
>
> Could it be that the check for a negative balance does not work 100% in
> case of an upate?
>
> greetings
>
> Martin Stromberger