On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > There are a number of ways to deal with it.. The easiest thing to do in the > short term would be to create a way to export your chart of accounts > to the palm, and then use the QIF or OFX importer to bring transaction > data out of the palm and back into GnuCash. > In other words, your conduit would just output a regular QIF or OFX file > and then you can use the existing importer to pull the data into your > gnucash file.
True, but there are already (commercial) palm apps that do that (not that that's a bad thing, and freecoins should probably be able to do that, but if that's all I wanted I'd just pay the $20). I want my palm data to automagically go into GnuCash. > Honestly I see little reason to have much in your pilot except, perhaps, > for current balances. I see the pilot as a useful tool to keep real-time > track of actual transactions which then get loaded into Gnucash during > sync (at which time the txns and balances are reconciled on the pilot > and you return to a clean state. OK, I don't need all my transactions in my palm, and it is mostly used for "enter on palm, import to GC", but it would be nice to have, say, my last month's worth of transactions on my palm. The hard parts of this are 1) writing the functions to translate the palm data to/from a canonical format, and 2) talking to GC to get/set the transactions. Once I have that (which seems to be a base level of functionality if I'm not going the QIF route), it shouldn't be that hard to figure out *what* I want to get/set. Again, pushing new transactions, deleting stuff older than a month, then gettting the new stuff shouldn't be *that* hard. Once that's done, actual conflict resolution shouldn't be that hard either, especially since transactions are very small and self-contained units (as opposed to say, a text file). > > * Is there a howto/tutorial/documentation on the Query API somewhere? > No, not really... There are some docs in the sources, but generally > (at this time) the sources (and headers) are the canonical documentation > for developers. If you'd like to help with documenting the APIs that would > also be welcome ;) In that case, is there someone who can help me (point me to existing code or provide sample function calls) fulfill the ambitious desires of "I have a transaction I'd like to commit now, please" and "Please to be showing me all the transactions that happened today" and "Good sir, may I inquire as to what accounts you currently possess"? :) Hell, I can even promise to document (for some value of "document") everything that I do so that future generations can learn from my failure. My first goal wrt GnuCash is to deal with setting/getting transactions. I understand that other changes (adding/deleting accounts, etc etc) will add more complexity, but that can come later. Thanks, -will -- ---------Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG encrypted mail preferred. Join the web-o-trust! Key ID: F4332B28 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
