Scheme scripting with gnucash.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Writing a script like this _should_ be possible.  The only major
problem that I can think of is the lack of an "open file" api without
the associated GUI code, meaning I don't think you can write a script
that opens a file without also initializing the GUI code.

The perl bindings fell into disrepair years ago and nobody has been
willing to maintain them.

Unfortunately I don't know of any example scripts that would do what
you want.  Sorry.

-derek

"Carl N.Baldwin" <carl at ecbaldwin.net> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> i have been looking around for the last day or two for information
> about doing different things in gnucash from a scheme script.
>
> Here's what I would like to do.  i would like to write a scheme script
> that will open my gnucash data file, get a list of accounts, get
> information about transactions in an account such as date, amount,
> splits, description and possibly even creating transactions.
>
> i'm a fairly accomplished script writer but I don't know much scheme.
> Four years ago or so I actually used the perl wrapper for gnucash
> rather successfully but I can't seem to find information about that
> anymore.  Scheme seems to be the preferred way to script in gnucash so
> I would like to try that.
>
> Would anyone be able to point me to example scripts that do simple
> things like what I mentioned above?  Are there any docs?  I found a
> reference in the report section of the gnucash online manual that
> mentioned a file called gnc.html.  I can't find this in CVS at all.
> Is this API still supported?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> Carl Baldwin
>
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