On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Am Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2008 20:52 schrieb Ian Smith-Heisters: >> p.s. apologies if -devel isn't the right place for this, I'm not sure >> if this is technically userland or devland. > > -devel is the absoutely right place for this. > >> I've been googling and searching the wiki for documentation, but >> haven't found much, particularly for write access. Are best practices >> for reading/writing the account file outside of the GnuCash GUI >> documented anywhere? Is the API documented anywhere (besides RTFS)? > > No, the API is documented nowhere else besides the source, but the source > documentation is prepared for doxygen processing whose result is online here > http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/ > >> I've seen references to a Python-SWIG binding, what other options are >> there besides C? Would Scheme work, or is it only prepared for writing >> reports that integrate with the GnuCash GUI? > > Python is what has been integrated most recently, see > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Python_Bindings and > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel/23800 > > Theoretically Scheme should work as well for such scripted jobs with opening a > file, changing something, and saving again. However I don't know how to do > that :-) > > Regards, > > Christian >
Thanks much, Christian. When diving blindly into something, it's at least good to know there isn't a better option ;) _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
