[OGo-Developer] OGo Invoice Application

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,
developer@opengroupware.org wrote: 
> On 25.12.2007, at 13:46, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > the last days I again fiddled a bit around with the OGo Invoice  
> > application
> > and actually got it working.
> 
> Why? Its really not worth the effort.
I take the app as a playground, finding out how things are working, 
especially the datasource thing, so that I can later implement sth. for the 
PBX CDR. Furthermore I like to waste my spare time with useless things ;)

> 
> > 1. add a switch statement to sope-gdl11/PostgreSQL/NSNumber+PGVal.m  
> > checking
> > for t_double.
> >
> > 2. exchange all t_double database field definitions in Misc/Invoice  
> > code
> > with float. Float is implemented in NSNumber+PGVal.m to use atof(), so
> > returning a double value.
> >
> > What would be the way to go?
> 
> Both double and float are completely inappropriate for storing  
> moneytary values. You need integer arithmetic. In Apple Foundation  
> this is done by NSDecimalNumber which is unsupported in  
> libFoundation ...
ah, another reason to drop libFoundation and to switch to gnustep-base.

> 
> > Another question, when I am watching an article, or an article  
> > category,
> > then there is a "switch to Skyrix..." and "switch to MDLink..."  
> > button.
> > The button, company names, ... are hardcoded in the objective-c  
> > source of
> > the Invoice application. Is there any good reason for that? If not,  
> > I'd go
> > make it configurable, also the amount of companies at all.
> 
> Probably not. But then, the whole app is not worth the effort.
I don't really care about worth of effort, if it is just fun for me.

Cheers,
Sebastian