--add-price-quotes not working

[Jonas Lippuner]

Hi there,

I've been using GnuCash for a while and I just created my own Perl 
module to automatically fetch the current NAV of a mutual fund of mine. 
Getting this quote as well as any other currency exchange rates works 
very well when I use Tools > Price Editor > Get Quotes in GnuCash.

But since I don't want to have to click that button all the time, I wold 
like GnuCash to execute the "Get Quotes" function automatically on startup.

I found that I could execute the command

gnucash --add-price-quotes "D:\path\to\my\gnucash\file"

When I execute this command, a console window appears showing that 
perl.exe is being executed. However, the window disappears very quickly 
and none of the prices seem to get updated. When I click on "Get Quotes" 
in GnuCash, the same window appears, but it takes much longer until it 
disappears again (after which the prices are all updated). So it seems 
that the --add-price-quotes command line option does not work.

Furthermore, when I start GnuCash, the same window with perl.exe being 
executed appears for about the same amount of time as when I use the 
--add-price-quotes option. So it seems that GnuCash would actually 
automatically update all the prices on startup (which is exactly what I 
want), but it simply doesn't work. It only works when I manually click 
on "Get Quotes"...

I'm using GnuCash 2.4.10 built form svn r22003 on 2012-02-11 on Windows 
7 Professional (64 bit).

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Jonas