On 2020-09-29 23:02, Geoff wrote:
Todd / Margo
Since you are a programmer, if you are still keen to use the clipboard,
here are some left field options for you to investigate:
Windows
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I have used AutoHotKey https://www.autohotkey.com/ for nearly a decade
and it will eat a simple automation task like this for breakfast.
Attached is a sample script to scrape transactions from an Excel
spreadsheet and insert them directly into a GnuCash ledger. Seeing is
believing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpO1SSJIgu4
Of course this can be done via CSV import, but that's not the point,
this is to demonstrate automating keyboard interactions with GnuCash.
Linux
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I haven't tried these and have no idea if they will work:-
AutoKey https://github.com/autokey/autokey looks like it might do the
job, at least if GnuCash is an X11 app. See:
https://linuxhint.com/autokey_automate_linux_games/
https://cafetran.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/6000053073
xdotool https://manned.org/xdotool/95401223
Other suggestions here:
https://superuser.com/questions/44052/is-there-an-autohotkey-for-ubuntu
MacOS
This person talks about running GnuCash via X11:
https://github.com/mhitchens/docker-gnucash
Happy investigating!
Geoff
Hi Geoff,
The current game plane is to
1) learn how to import a CSV into GnuCash
2) take my data that I was going to place in the clipboard
and instead write it to a standard CSV file and location
the GnuCash can easily and consistently see
Since I will be the one handling the dat, I should be able to
handle the pitfalls of CSV.
One of my customers had me write a filter between two
program the used a CSV to transfer data between the two
of them. Things go a little interesting when the
importing program thought the quote mark they were
using for inches was the field terminator. It was
a bug in the receiving program as the field terminator
is a quote and then a comma. The end of line is a quote
and a return. My solution was to find where they were
using a quote sign for inches and replace it with "in".
I do use single quotes to denote cable feet and I may
have a few double quotes in my part descriptions that
I have to deal with. It all depends on how well done
GnuCash's import function is written. I will find out.
-T
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