Lazy8 Ledger

Bug fixes.

1. Changed AccountSummary report. Added Incomming and outgoing balances.
2. Changed the Customer/Project transaction report. Added totals to each account group
3. It is more friendly to OpenJava (as opposed to just Sun Java). Before it hanged during installation using OpenJava and most any other process.
4. It is complient with the new jEdit 4.3.15 which means you must use the latest jEdit (download from http://jedit.org) if you dont already have it
5. Fixed an unreported bug where customer/project transactions text report did not work. It just crashed. Apparently nobody needed it anyway.
6. No longer hidding the buffer-switcher by default. This won’t effect existing installations, only new ones. Now with buffer-tabs and buffer-switcher there are 2 ways unfortuneately in SunJava installations. It is easy to turn one of these off. It is only the default that has 2.

Bug fixes.

1. There was an error each time you tried to “change” data in the transaction. Fixed
2. Changed the version of jEdit to 4.3 pre 12

Bug fixes.

1. The transaction number began at 2 sometimes instead of 1. Fixed
2. Really bad bug that did not update the accounttype table properly. Fixed
3. At startup, the welcome window always showed up, even when it wasn’t supposed to. Fixed
4. Changed the version of jedit to 4.2 Final

Minor new functionality and minor bug fixes.

1. Fixed bug where importing a csv chart of accounts didn’t work.
2. Added import/export csv account types
3. Added option to allow transaction id numbers to start at one for each accounting period.
4. Added new advanced menus for editing all the report definitions.
5. Fixed bug where first time startup routine’s “defered startup” didn’t work
6. Fixed bug where first time startup routine’s “default help window width” didn’t work
7. Fixed bug where the readd message in the transaction screen came up too often.

Minor bug fixes.

1. Setting the default accounting period did not work in some cases. Fixed
2. The default page size was always A4. Now the default page size depends on what is the default language and country. That means that for USA it is Letter size and for most others it is A4.

Minor functionality changes.

1. Changed Lazy 8 Ledger to be compatible with jEdit 4.2. Lazy 8 Ledger can no longer be run with a jEdit version 4.1 or less.
2. Some window properties could not be saved and were lost when turning off the program. Fixed.
3. Added a nice link to a bookkeeping tutorial
4. Lots of very minor changes everywhere, both in the documentation and in the program.

Minor functionality changes.

1. Customer/project reports added in the last version were completely redone in this version.
2. Added a new report called Trial Balances.
3. Added the ability to quickly produce a list of records after doing a search using the filtering dialog.
4. Lots of very minor changes everywhere, both in the documentation and in the program.

Functionality changes and bug fixes.

1. Fixed that adding customers or accounts in the customer/account forms are updated into the transaction form without restarting the program. This is actually a new communication between all windows. If one window is updated, all the other windows are updated. Before, to update all the windows, you were required to restart the program.
2. Added flexibility into the account types. Before there were only “assets, debts, incomes, expenses” account types. Now you may have any number of account types, although the default is the “assets, debts, incomes, expenses” or “assets, debts, equity, incomes, expenses” (equity specifically added for North America). All given/added account types are summerized in the Balance/Result report.
3. Added new reports “Customer/Project Transactions” and “Customer/Project Accounts”
4. Added Auto-incrementing of the Customer/Project-Id number in the Customer/Project Form. To activate the “Auto-increment” you must hit the “Clear” button in some cases.
5. Added a “Default Account” to the Customer/Project definition.. This “Default Account” will be automatically added to the Transaction Form when a Customer/Project is selected and no account is already entered into the Transaction Form for that row.
6. Added “Allow re-adding” old transactions as new transactions (or any type of record for that matter). This possibility is added to perhaps save some time entering data. It was not allowed before as a safety precaution in the case that somebody hits the Add button instead of the desired Change button. Warning messages are given when re-adding to help avoid mistakes..
7. It was possible to delete a customer/project for which entries exist in the transaction table. Fixed
8. Improved the user interface in the Transaction Entry form. Some fields did not get updated as they should when using the mouse intensively.

Minor functionality change.

1. Many requested that it be possible to leave the invoice date in the transaction input screen from the previous entry so that they wouldn’t have to type in the date every time. It is done and it is an option.

Very minor bug fix release.

1. Fixed a lot of grammatical errors in the swedish translation.
2. Updated the jfreereport and jfreechart libraries.

This is a minor bug fix release and minor functionality changes:.

1. Added a new option to show accounts with a balance of zero in the reports
2. Added a new option to show all windows free floating instead sitting inside of the main window
3. Updated the jfreereport and jfreechart libraries
4. Bug fixed where the number formats options for the reports were mixed up with the input number formats.
5. Added the language Slovenian
6. Made Lazy8Ledger more user-friendly to the jEdit environment by changing menus only temporarily instead of permanently.

This is a minor bug fix release:.

1. CSV importing didn’t work with semicolon as the delimiter. Fixed

This is a minor bug fix release:.

1. Installation wizard crashed in some cases. Fixed.
2. Diagrams with bimonthly, quarterly or half-year had errors.
3. In Linux, the transaction entry window did not properly set focus to the invoice date at the end of a transaction entry.
4. SIE import has been changed to allow mulitple imports into the same company.

This is a minor release of some new minor features:.

1. All reports are now printed out from one screen instead of several different screens.
2. New reports added: List of accounts and list of customers/projects.
3. In swedish, there is a standard list of accounts to choose from to add to your own list of accounts.
4. All the libraries are updated which will add a higher quality to all reports, graphs, and database transactions.

This is a major new release. The size of the program has increased four times due to the added graphics packages.
The new features include:

1. CSV (Comma Separated Variables) export and import
2. SIE (Standard Import Export (Swedish standard)) export and import
3. All reports are redone to a high quality output with PDF, CSV, HTML and Excel file output as well
4. A graphics module with bar,line,and pie diagrams.
5. Easier searching the database for the records you want.

1. Added the language Estonian. All texts that show up in the program are translated but the documentation is not translated yet. A big thanks to Enn Lutterus for doing the translation.

1. If you used Java 1.3 instead of Java 1.4 then the database backup that should happen when you exit Lazy8Ledger didnt work. It is fixed now.

1. Change from a 2 digit version number to a 3 digit version number.

2. Numerous serious bugs fixed that showed up if you used Java 1.3 instead of Java 1.4. These bugs prevented the use of Lazy8Ledger almost entirely

3. After creating a new company and adding default accounts, the name of the company was wrong. Fixed this bug.

1. There are no code changes in this release. The purpose of this release is to fix a distribution problem. There are a lot of version 1.1′s out there that dont work due to distribution problems that messed up the program. This 1.2 version is the same as the 1.1 but we have hopefully worked out the distribution problems.

1. Now that Lazy 8 ledger is released officially as a jEdit plugin, anytime a new version of Lazy8Ledger is released, you can quickly download the new version by the push of a button and the new version is automatically installed. The step by step technique is as follows.

2. Start your internet connection. Start jEdit (Lazy8Ledger). Select the menu Plugins->Plugin manager. Then push the button update plugins. If you have an older version of Lazy8Ledger, it will tell you and suggest that you give the OK for the download of the new version. When you press ok, the new version is downloaded and installed. Thats all. Easy as can be.

Changes between version 1.0 and 1.1

1. Added to the installation wizard a question at the very beginning asking if they really want to do the installation wizard now or not.

2. Added a tutorial to help beginners quickly learn Lazy8 Ledger.

1. Finally released publicly, Lazy8Leger version 1.0

1. A few days before, I had received my first version of jEdit, which is a programmers tool. I fell immediately in love with it and made the quick decision to turn Lazy8Ledger into a plugin to jEdit.

2. This was a major stop in the planned release of Lazy8Ledger but the benefits of making Lazy8Ledger a jEdit plugin were too great to be ignored.

3. This began an intensive 5 weeks of converting Lazy8Leger to a plugin.

1. This was a critical point in the development. This project had been plagued with database problems because the current database was a freestanding, non-java program, MySql. MySql is a fantastic database for super servers but for people who are not computer system administrators, MySql is just a little bit too much. Then I found McKoi. It was perfect for our program and I installed it and it worked GREAT. No more installation and maintenance problems!.

1. Bo Carlson and I decided that the best way to get a lot of people using our program would be to make it free.

1. Decided to add context help. That means that at whatever field or point in the program a user is, he/she will have available (and visible) help text to guide him/her.

1. Both my accountant and I felt that we have put off for too long the release of Lazy8Ledger. Now it is time to put on the finishing touches to release it.

1. Began making the documentation for Lazy8Ledger

2. The documentation was difficult because it needed to be done in two languages, Swedish and English

1. My wife Karin began using Lazy8Leger for her company ‘Qui Mai’.

1. Bo and Ingrid encouraged me and also began helping me design Lazy8Ledger.

2. They helped me with terminology, translation (Swedish), and most importantly, what is needed for a good bookkeeping program

1. Much of what you see in today’s working version was here working and being tested already at this date.

2. Since this point, Lazy8Ledger has been in working production but not publicly released.

1. I needed a bookkeeping program for my companies ‘Dilts Automation Konsult’ and ‘Lazy Eight Data HB’, but I couldn’t find anything that was interesting for my needs. At the same time, I needed to practice Java programming so this was my project to teach myself Java programming as well.

2. I was not good at bookkeeping either so I bought some books on ‘double entry’ bookkeeping.