Hi Patrick, thanks for the patch and for working on this! I think it is great to see some development on this feature at last.
As John has already pointed out, directly adding a new field in the data structures should be avoided, but storing the data in kvp frames will probably work for you just as well. The right-click menu is probably rather easy: As you already have the action implemented, IIRC it's just a matter of adding it to the respective -ui.xml files or something similar, where just the same action should be called. I might be wrong on this, though. I'm looking forward to giving it a try even though I don't have time for this right now. But the feature has been asked for by a lot of people and for a long time by now. Thanks a lot for the first step. Regards, Christian Am Freitag, 8. November 2013, 14:34:23 schrieb Patrick: > Hi folks, > > I've been a gnucash user for several years and have always wanted the > ability to attach my scanned invoices or receipts to transactions. > > Lurking about for some time, I'd been following bug #336843 and several > threads of others wanting similar functionality. Rather than wait > patiently, I found a few free hours last weekend and decided to attempt to > implement this myself. > > Attached you'll find a patch which works adequately for my needs, but I > wanted to share with the larger community. > > Primary functionality: > - User selects a file via a dialog, the URI is stored in a new char* in > the Transaction structure. > - User can similarly launch the associated file via the Transaction menu. > (Launches via gtk viewer, so filetypes such as .JPG, .PDF, etc are already > handled.) > > The functionality works under Linux with the XML backend, however there are > a few untested areas and TODOs: > - SQL backend (untested), I added a column which of course would cause > issues for existing tables. > - Code to execute the associate file is modeled after gnc_gnome_help() - > which is platform dependent. I have no objective C experience so the Mac > functionality is completely not implemented. Windows is untested and likely > needs a tweak or two. > - Lastly, and a minor tweak - I intended to find the menu for the > right-click menu on a transaction and add similar menu options to what I > added in the Transaction menu. > > Regards, > Patrick _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
