Hi John, I've tried to use qof_book_get_option, but it wasn't working (always returned null). After some more digging, I found a bug in the book's budget property setter/getter implementation: the wrong KVP path was being used, and so it was never found.
I pushed a fix to PR #503. I've been trying to use the budgets functionality, but found it very annoying to edit, so I added some fixes/enhancements in that PR: + add option to use flat average for estimating budget amount (bug 646631) + allow editing budget for all periods (bugs 639404, 679800) + add multicurrency support in budget page (bug 676810) + preselect default budget in "open" dialog. (bug 788157) Regards, Adrián -----Original Message----- From: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> Sent: domingo, 12 de mayo de 2019 10:47 p. m. To: Adrian Panella <ianch...@outlook.com> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Getting book option > On May 12, 2019, at 8:08 PM, Adrian Panella <ianch...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Hi, I need help to find the right API from C code to get the value of a book > option (the ones set from the dialog at File -> Properties ). > I know it is stored as a KVP with the name "options/Budgeting/Default Budget". > I've read the documentation and the source code, but couldn't find a simple > way to do it. > The only way a found would be to use qof_book_get_option() (as done from SCM > code) but I'll have to add boilerplate to convert the string path to a GSList > and to unpack the returned value from KvpValue to the stored GUID. > Is there a better way of doing it? > > Another question, that I cannot deduce: which is the relationship (if any), > between that option and qof_instance_get (book, "default-budget", &value, > NUL)? > This last one, is always NUL, but I couldn't find a way to set it. I'm not familiar with the budget code, but I think the two are the same. You probably want to use the property because anything involving KVP is private to libgnucash. qof_instance_get is a wrapper around g_object_get with some special handling for properties stored in KVP. See https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#g-object-get. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
