[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: converting csv #4081

FYI, Google does list some results for “CSV OFX converter”.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4069

It doesn’t matter what browser I’m using or whether extensions are enabled. I’ve tried on Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer (multiple versions), and Opera.

It’s a computer thing, not a browser thing.

The non-working computer has a Dell touchpad — I wonder if that’s the common element?

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4064

Oh. Videos… I’m bandwidth constrained.

However, I’ve noticed this problem on Windows 8.1 and 10; all browsers I’ve tried (Firefox, Chrome, Opera). I just tried it in Chrome’s private mode (no extensions, etc), same result. It’s something about the _computer_ (and I have a work computer using the same Chrome profile, so all the same extensions, and it works perfectly).

My guess above was that it was the HD resolution monitor; but obviously that’s not it. Perhaps it’s the presence of an integrated trackpad, or the Dell drivers for it.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: Just missed a tax payment … urgh. #4078

EMPHASIS: I’m not blaming CalendarBudget for my own fault. Fantastic product.

I’d just love to remove a feature (forced endings to repeating events) that just cost me money, and has many times misled me when forecasting my budget.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4062

Such as?
I do know it works at work, and not at home.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4060

Oh, I reduced the window size to obscure most of the information, and only used a capture window that big because that’s where the action was. Is there an indicator light I didn’t capture?

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4058

OK, I posted an animated GIF on my Google Drive, shared with all.

Notice that when moving left-to-right the drag bar flickers red/green; when moving right-to-left the drag bar stays green (EDIT: I meant _red_) (but I drop it while I’m trying to move left, and it fails anyhow, with no visible feedback).

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4056

Wow, capturing a video is a lot more complex than I expected… I downloaded “Open Broadcaster Software”, but I’m ALL tangled up trying to figure it out. (I think I got it right, but I *think* either its preview is completely broken or it’s on pause or it added 10 minutes of the first frame … I don’t know, I can’t make the video show what I did, it just sits there.)

What would you recommend using to get this recording?

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4054

No error message.

That’s the problem — what’s happening isn’t an error, it’s intended by the framework author. The framework _thinks_ that releasing the mouse button (which means “dropping” a transaction) while the mouse is on top of the transaction is illegal because I’m “trying” to drop the transaction onto itself. Of course, the Javascript always moves the transaction to be under the mouse — so it’s always ‘illegal’ to drop a transaction, UNLESS by coincidence the transaction’s location hasn’t been moved yet. If I move fast enough, I have a VERY short window of time while the transaction’s ‘green’ and I can drop it, but very quickly the transaction will move under the cursor again, turn red, and if I drop it’ll do nothing. (This is the same behavior as if I drop the transaction onto something that’s not a Source.)

(This makes me wonder if I can work more easily on a slower machine — my PC’s pretty fast and is sheer hell to reconcile budgets on, while my work machine’s slow but is super-easy to do CalendarBudget on. Note that if a machine fails, it’ll fail on ALL browsers: Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox, Opera.)

Is it possible, I wonder, that there’s some CSS flag on the ‘transaction’ that will make the dragAndDrop not think I’m trying to drop the transaction on itself?

I think this is a DOJO “bug” — some obscure problem caused by the port to the more recent version of Dojo.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4050

YES, HD=high definition.

I thought for sure I’d figured out a difference. Oh well.

All I know is that my personal PC stopped letting me easily drag and drop to reconcile a while ago (I think it was when you upgraded the javascript UI library to work with the iPhone). My work PC’s fine.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: reconcile drag and drop feature not working #4048

I’ve checked this on HD and non-HD computers — I think that’s the difference.

Consistently, it’s almost impossible to reconcile on HD computers, because the drag and drop is _finicky_. The title bar of the thing being dragged flickers red almost all the time (so it’s an error to drop), and it only spends any time green while I’m dragging leftward.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: Importing OFX, some entries can’t be dragged to the calendar #3986

Oh! I never thought of the percent signs — I just hit that problem too!

It’s interesting — the entry turns icy blue, but the mouse doesn’t change to draggable state. And the entry stays icy blue, even when I try to drag other entries.

Let me know if you don’t get the file, I’ll send you mine.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: Increasing Page Load Times #3925

It’s REALLY painful when I’m checking off items, especially since I just dragged the item, waited for the data to transfer, right-clicked and checked the item, and now have to wait again.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: Automatic Credit Card bill estimation #3942

In the bad old days, this would be handled by double-entry accounting. Double-entry is a horrible user interface for 99% of personal finance — but there’s something to learn from it.

I’ve been working on that for a long time, designing a personal finance website, but now that I’ve found CalendarBudget I don’t have the energy — it solves 90% of my “wants”.

[wtanksleyjr]

in reply to: Mark Items as Completed or Planned… and interface for those #3953

Hey, that’s a great idea – when reconciling, CalendarBudget could automatically mark the entry as complete.

I’d love to take credit, but some other guy thought of it first (It’s you.  ;D.)

But seriously, I’d like to see something like that — balancing is just _really_ hard when you have one item that’s not present in the bank’s record (because it’s a repeating bill that you forgot to pay, for example) but multiple items aren’t marked as complete. Sometimes the most important errors that should be glaring are actually almost invisible.

-Wm

[Author]

Posts