I'm having problems with the html widget & need advice.
I wanted to start working on reports & etc, and thought to do them up as
HTML pages. To display them, I'm thinking of using the built-in HTML
widget. However, it doesn't support tables, so time for an upgrade ...
So, here's the problem:
The new XmHTML widget does support tables, but its make-file structure
isn't compatible with the current gnucash makefiles, so it would be a
hassle to integrate.
-- should I just tell current and future developers to go get the lastest
XmHTML, build it yourself, and good luck? That add an extra hassle
factor, which is already nasty what with all the guile build problems
...
-- maybe there are precompiled .rpm .deb packages for XmHTML that are
less hassle?
-- maybe we should just pipe the html to Konqueror or Netscape or whatever?
This seems somewhat of a config nightmare. as well as a compatibility
hassle ... for marginal returns ...
-- anyone want to volunteer to integrate the newer xmhtml into the
gnucash makefile infrastructure?
Are there any neat tricks we can learn from gnome or kde on handling html
embedded in an application? Should we create a mini-web-server built into
gnucash (well, there already is one, how about improving it?) Any other
cool tricks?
How about "docking"? How does that work? e.g. I think ms-money does this:
much/most of the gui layout is in fact just html, and then they've embedded
a few gui elements (activex controls, I guess) into the page. So e.g. if
we did this, the register window would/could be embedded/"docked" into
a web page; the web page controls color, etc, while the register does the
hard work.
I note that the KDE control center is a "dock" for a bunch of smaller kde
applets; what about gnome? Any sort of special programming tricks
needed to enable something like this?
--linas
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