> On Mar 24, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > > > > On 23 March 2018 at 11:59, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us > <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: > > >> On Mar 23, 2018, at 8:34 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com >> <mailto:m...@conundrum.com>> wrote: >> >> On 23 March 2018 at 00:35, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be >> <mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Ideally this would become part of libgnucash in order to make the report >>> generation platform independent as well (and hence opening the way to make >>> it >>> accessible one day on android or osx platforms). This will only be >>> possible at >>> the cost of moving away from scheme as reporting engine unfortunately as >>> that >>> would not be portable... >>> >> >> lua maybe? It seems popular and portable.. and it's already on my personal >> education roadmap. :) > > Apple’s rules for iOS include *no interpreters*. That means no Guile, no > Python, no Lua, no Ruby, no Javascript. > > That's a shame. But doesn't that pretty much rule out having an easily > expandable reporting engine on iOS?
Not really. The report module in GnuCash is very much done “the hard way”. Plain queries and a simple processor to wrap the results in html along with a bit of css would get the same results with a lot less effort; add a query-by-example UI and the result would be infinitely more user friendly. I exaggerated a bit about Javascript because iOS includes Safari and it obviously has a javascript interpreter in it. I don’t know UIKit very well but I’d be surprised if it doesn’t expose some sort of browser-like view that we could use for displaying reports. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
