I'd like to explain my recent experiments with C++ and cmake: I was tired of the amount of code one has to write in the C language to achieve seemingly trivial tasks. In my day-time projects with other, more GUI-suited, programming languages, the simple tasks can be written sooo much simpler, leaving much more time for the actual challenging tasks. In gnucash, over and over again I thought couldn't the GUI be written in any of the more modern languages and/or toolkits. I mean, can we get the fun into gnucash coding again?
Actually, we can. Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: The non-GUI parts are re-used in the state they are, in the C language. This means the double-entry principles and all of the other achievments in the "engine" and xml-backend and eventually other backends can be re-used. But the GUI is rewritten completely new, from scratch, in C++ and using the Qt toolkit. Fun again. The build system is CMake because its configuration runs magnitudes faster. Fun again. And as a final bonus, for MS windows more compiler than before are supported, namely this whole new project can be compiled by MS Visual Studio as well. So here it is: Cutecash Free Finance Software. Easy to develop, easy to use. Currently this is only a proof-of-concept for developers: You can load an existing gnucash XML file, and it will show the list of accounts as a flat table in a QTableView. The fun part is how easy it was to add this display of all accounts, so it will probably take only another 1-2 hours until the account list is a tree to be viewed in a QTreeView. And a QTableView with the splits of an account can't be far... To give this a try, have qt4 (>=4.5.0) and cmake (>= 2.6.0) installed and: mkdir build-cutecash cd build-cutecash cmake .. make ./src/gnc/cutecash Have fun (again)! Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
