Thank you very much, that worked!! I'm not sure how this is going to be dealt with if/when the repaired version of the TMX module is approved.
Gord On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 11:07 AM john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > There's a pair of hard-coded structures at > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/e30c1fce70c04fab4507ac869351165b0d70ae48/libgnucash/engine/gnc-commodity.c#L177 > that > lists the sources that GnuCash knows about; anything not in one of those > two shows up in the third "unknown" list. The lists were last updated 5 > years ago and are in need of another. > > When GnuCash starts up it queries F::Q for the available sources using > gnc-fq-check and bounces the two lists, enabling in the entries in the > hard-coded structs for the matching sources from gnc-fq-check; after the > bounce any remaining F::Q sources populate the Unknown list at the bottom > of the dialog. Yes, it's obviously brittle, but that's necessary because > there's at present no way to retrieve the exchange names for the sources > nor to distinguish between single and multiple source names so the combos > in the security editor can't be populated dynamically. > > You'll notice that the Toronto Stock Exchange module is entered as tsx > (line 227), so it doesn't match the current name of the module, tmx, and it > doesn't get enabled but tmx appears in the unknown list. If you add your > modified TSX module to @MODULES in Quotes.pm and you've changed every > instance of tmx to tsx as part of your modifications it should get added to > the sources list from gnc-fq-check and enable the tsx item in GnuCash's > security editor. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Nov 12, 2022, at 9:07 AM, gnu Gord <gnucashg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion but the TMX module is already listed in Quote.pm. > It existed before I started so there must be some other way GnuCash decides > whether a module is available for use or not... I just don't know how. > > Thanks again, > Gord > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 7:20 AM Ken Farley <farle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If I remember correctly, when I made my own module to grab US EE Bond > prices, in order for GnuCash to allow my module to be used, I had to add > it to the MODULES list in Quote.pm. I'm working on a Mac, so your path > might differ, but for me it's in /Library/Perl/5.30/Finance. I added a > line between two of the entries in Quote.pm. For example, here's the > chunk of that file for me, where I've added "USBonds" to reference my > Perl module "USBonds.pm". > > @MODULES = qw/ > AEX > ... (many many modules) > Troweprice > USBonds > USFedBonds > Union > YahooJSON > ZA > /; > > If that's not helpful, and something more has to be done, I don't know > what it might be. I don't recall having to do anything else except > restarting GnuCash. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
