On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 07:24:36PM -0500, Anthony W. Juckel was heard to remark: > From the get go, I've been told that GnuCash would be an extensible > financial system (which is very appealing to me, and is one of the main > reasons I prefer the Emacs editor for any serious text editing). The > interface seems to be coming along quite nicely, and I have recently > decided to try to port all my financial information from Quicken into > GnuCash (with mixed results thus far), so now I would like to have more > information about how to customize GnuCash. I think I have read that > both Guile and Perl are supported for extensibility. Is one language > preferable to the other (with regards to GnuCash interoperability rather > than programmer preference)?
scheme (guile) is used internally by gnucash and is well-integrated. The perl bindings are not integrated in this way: you can use perl to access the 'engine' library, but you can't use it to change the behvaiour of a running copy of gnucash. > Is there any information about the API's > that are supplied by the system? The src/doc directory contains documentation. Also, in the case of src/engine, the header files src/engine/*.h document most of the engine API. The GUI apis are more poorly documented: some of tehse are not meant to be 'public'. > As a reference, two things I would > like to do are (from simple to complex): word of caution: one fo the big changes in gnucash-1.7 is to make the source code more modular. This affects how scheme is used to access the API's. > 1) Set up some default keybindings (so the Delete key deletes a > transaction, for instance), and > 2) Set up a system where, if a transaction is added to a specific > account, a percentage of that transaction is logged to a Gnumeric > spreadsheet (yet another Gnome program that preaches extensibility, yet > I have yet to find any documentation on it). I am cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe you'll get a better answer there ... > Basically, I'm wondering if the documentation on extensibility is really > as sparse as it seems, or is there some vast cache of info that I have > yet to find? > > Anthony W. Juckel > GnuCash 1.6.1 --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
