On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:18:48PM -0700, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark: > On 26 Jun 2001 00:56:51 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > What's the right way to initialize the list of iso currencies? > > When I just call gnc_book_load() from a stand-alone C program, > > it gets a parse error, because ISO4217::USD is not defined. > > That's because the xml file format doesn't store these currencies, > > and also because the engine doesn't initialize any values for them > > (the initialization is done with scheme code when running gnucash). > > Short term, the easiest thing to do would be to stick the > currencies in an XML file and load that file once. I believe > Jim's medium-term plan is to move the currency definitions to > just such a file and use that instead of the scheme file. OK, that fits in well with other changes that I'd need to get the http backend to work. I need the ability to merge in partial information from xml chunks, such as a list of transactions, (assuming that account info has been set up by reading a different chunk of xml), or a partial list of prices (assuming the commodites were previously set up), etc. --linas _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
