On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:17:53 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.heskett@verizon.net wrote:
I think you are wasting your time unless you just want to fill in the blanks of a ready-made, purchased from the bank, check.
That's exactly what I want to do (and what quicken can do as well).
However, I'd imagine that most are capable of printing on the banks checks even if a template might have to be built.
I imagined that too until I tried a bunch of them. GnuCash can print exactly one check, and you have to tell it where the fields are each and every time you want to print a check (it won't remember templates for different checks).
KMyMoney won't print anything - not reports, not nuthin (and especially no checks).
But, why bother since most online banking can now be done without you're having to write a check at all.
Every once and a while I have to write a real check (less and less frequently as time passes), and it always irritates me to write the same set of numbers on the check and into the computer, so if I write the program, by the year 3099 I will have saved enough time duplicating information on checks to make up for the time it took to write the program :-).
But, like I said, it is mostly a Qt4 learning exercise (and if I do release it, there will be one less "yea, but linux can't do XXX" :-).