Rob Browning wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I'm having a bit of a time figuring out the "parsing" of account
> > lists (e.g. - the care and feeding of gnc:group-map-accounts, and so
> > forth), and figure that interacting directly with a Scheme reader is
> > liable to be more useful than the much more batch-like
> > "edit/run-gnucash/test" loop.
>
> You might also, if you haven't want to look at my text-export code.
> You probably saw that, but if you didn't...
Yes, I've been looking at that. Fairly helpful stuff.
After some further fiddling, I now seem to be able to successfully
get the existing account names, and have my "first cut" at translation
table. That is, I take the items from the QIF file, and, for each
one, come up with a list of existing accounts that somewhat match.
Next step involves mapping through the list of accounts, and asking the
user to pick a favorite account. This probably mandates creating a
GTK dialogue looking something like:
======================================================
Category Translation Selection
QIF file category "Rent" had 17 entries in the file.
Best matches included:
[ Rent ] Exact match
[ Auto Rent ] Partial match
[ Restaurants ] First letter match
[ null ] Item from Category list
[ Pick from Category List ]
[ Create new category for this item ]
======================================================
where the [braces] indicate a button that one would press to select
the option given.
I can probably "Glade" a function into place for this, although the
"query Category list" items are liable to be hairy...
> > I'm sure that how to do this is hiding some place in the archives,>
> > I'm sure that how to do this is hiding some place in the archives,
> > unfortunately there sure are a lot of messages out there...
>
> Check the README. I updated it a little while back to mention the new
> startup behavior. Basically, it's a lot simpler to do what you're
> asking now than it used to be. Look for GNC_RUN_AS_SHELL. If that
> doesn't do what you want (or if you'd just prefer something
> different), then let me know and we'll design something better.
> You're about to make yourself the guinea pig for this feature :>
Of course it would be in the main README... Teaches me to not look
close enough...
> Note that the interactive session only works if you don't want to run
> the GUI. Right now, if you launch the UI, there's no way to come back
> to the prompt. I'm not sure how hard that would be to fix, but it
> might be difficult. It might be a lot easier to bring up an
> interactive guile prompt in a GTK window if a non-UI prompt isn't
> enough right now.
I suspect that guile-in-window is liable to be really quite useful for
debugging scripts as it allows me to be reasonably sure that I've got
the same environment that I see if I load the register.
I'll see how it goes without it.
--
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