On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Derek Atkins wrote: > "Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello people, > > > > I'm planing a project for one of my students. He's doing a cybercash > > frontend [1]. The idea would be to connect an accounting programm - here > > Gnucash to the cybercash frontend, so one could: > > > > 1. add transactions into gnucash as soon as some cash arrives > > 2. trigger a transaction as soon as it's done in gnucash > > > > I know that the HBCI project does something related. However are the two > > points above as they are doable with existing framework or not? > > > > That is: > > > > 1. do there exist hooks where a script or external application can be > > called when a transaction is entered? > > Maybe currently... But this is something that SHOULD be added. > You could base this on the running events -- but those aren't available > to scripts, only to plug-in C code. > > Note that you CAN implement a gnc module to do your work and plug that > in at runtime. That might be your best bet. > > > 2. is there a possiblity to call gnucash through some kind of RPC, from > > the command line or as a daemon to add a transaction? > > Not currently... > > > If the previous two things are not doable from outside of Gnucash > > (through scripts or similar), how much of an effort would it be to > > add such hooks into and out of Gnucash? > > They are not doable today. #1 would be relatively easy to add, but #2 > would be more difficult.
Could you give me an estimate on how long #1 and #2 would take for someone that is *not* familiar with gnucash's internals? *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
