On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:25:01PM +0200, Christian Stimming was heard to remark: > Hello Tomas, > > Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists schrieb: > >1. do there exist hooks where a script or external application can be > > called when a transaction is entered? > >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? > > I thought at least for your described question #2 the "--evaluate" > command line option of gnucash would be of some help. I.e. your > cybercash frontend could come up with some scheme statements that would > actually create a transaction and add it to the appropriate places -- at > least that's what I would expect...
One of the goals of scheme-ifying gnucash was to allow exactly #2, and even make it easy. The idea was that you'd write a little scheme script that did whatever you wanted, and pushed the data into/out-of gnucash. But nobody or almost nobody does/did that, so we have little track record for this. FYI, the earlier incarnation used perl for this; the current perl-based price lookup is a vestige of that. Almost no one used the perl bindings either. Anyway, I have no idea if we suceeded or failed with the scheme bindings. Failed, I suppose, in that no one uses them or cares very much ... > As for the question #1, no, there is nothing available at the moment. Actually, there is something, sort-of. There are C-language 'gnc events' generated whenever a transaction is created/modified/destoyed. These events are used to tell the GUI when to update. I am not sure if there are scheme wrappers for these events or not. If there are scheme wrappers, then that's your script hook. Note that I am planning on changing the C-language api to these events, to make them richer and more powerful. I'll try to maintain some amount of backwards compat, but am not sure right now. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
