On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Thursday 12 August 2010 schrieb Martin Preuss: >>> The normal online banking usage still works, as the aqbanking4-style >>> GWEN_GUI implementation of gnucash still seems to be sufficient for >>> those operations. But the setup doesn't work. >> >> [...] >> >> Thats correct. The old callbacks GnuCash implemented are still present and >> are still used for GUI implementations not supporting the dialog >> framework. >> >> However, it should be fairly easy to adapt to the Gtk2Gui provided by gwen: >> - create the Gtk2Gui object >> ... > > Thanks, Martin, for the explanation and the detailed advice on how this > should > be implemented in gnucash. Unfortunately there is a small source code > organization problem here, which is why I'm hesitating to spending time on > this. I'll explain it in detail because for me this is the reason why I > didn't > start with this for quite some time by now: > > The gnucash code in src/import-export/aqbanking/ currently compiles and works > fine with aqbanking4. Implementing the changes you described for aqbanking5 > will clearly make the code of that directory incompatible with aqbanking4. > I'm > afraid one has to add too many #ifdef USING_AQBANKING5 (a convenience macro > we > would define in import-export/aqbanking/gnc-ab-utils.h) conditionals, which > always look quite ugly. The only other source code organization possibility > would be to copy the import-export/aqbanking directory to a new second import- > export/aqbanking5 directory, where we could remove all the aqbanking4 stuff > and write solely for aqbanking5. But that would duplicate a lot of code as > well. > > Hm... While writing this, it occurred to me the copying to import- > export/aqbanking5 might indeed be the better way in the long run. That > solution would be the only one that ensures the old aqbanking4 code will > continue to work as expected. So that's probably what I would recommend for > anyone who wants to implement correct support of aqbanking5 in gnucash. And, > as Martin explained, in that new directory one can benefit from all the GUI- > handling simplifications which are now implemented by Martin in aqbanking5. > > This should just give the correct picture for anyone who wants to deal with > that task. After all, the task might be solved within 2-3 days of work... > volunteers, anyone? > > Regards, > > Christian > It's beyond my skill level, so I can't volunteer. Thanks for the discussion, though.
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