Am Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 schrieb brad: > OFX import for investment accounts has a few quirks or bugs. One very > frustrating thing about it is that it does the import too transparently > and the user can't see what accounts the transaction went to (too often > the wrong one). If the transaction were shown in a new tab like what is > done in with 'Scheduled Transactions' then the user could see what > happened & fix it. There's a click box to 'Review created transactions' > when getting 'since last run' scheduled transactions, this is what I had > in mind. > How hard will this be to implement? I'm willing to take a crack at it > unless the experienced developers here say it's too hard for a novice. > I've done a fair amount of C, but nothing like this.
Unfortunately I have to warn you here: This is a rather major task, because creating a new GUI window for the to-be-implemented transaction is a lot of unfriendly work in the current gtk/C platform. (This is one of the main reasons for me to have tried C++/Qt in the cutecash experiment, but I guess you won't gain much by implementing your desired feature in cutecash instead of gnucash, because even though cutecash can edit your gnucash file, it is still lacking a lot of the interesting features of gnucash. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash If you feel like you would like to learn something new, I would suggest trying to write an import GUI in cutecash, but then again, it isn't clear what the future of that experiment will be.) > Another feature I'd like to take a look at is using the fund/stock > prices from an OFX import and putting that data in the price db. My > 401k has funds which are not listed so 'get quotes' doesn't work. On > the surface this one sounds easier to me. Theoretically yes, but in practice the OFX import is done by the external library "libaqbanking". That is, first you need to find out whether libaqbanking reads the ofx fields that you want. If not, you have to get into libaqbanking and write code there that reads it and extend its interfaces so that gnucash can obtain the data. If you are that far, then yes, indeed this can't be too difficult and maybe this is a good task for a newcomer. However, if the aqbanking library interfaces need to be changed, it's a rather difficult task. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
