how to hook OpenHBCI menu items in the register window

[Derek Atkins]

My personal feeling is that adding HBCI dependencies to src/gnome/*
is the wrong idea.  Instead, we should have an interface to allow
a gnc-module to auto-add items to menus -- ANY menu.  The business
code would like to do it, too.

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to create new actions that can be performed on a Gnucash account 
> online by means of HBCI. Those online actions include balance retrieval, 
> transaction retrieval, and others. I'd like to add menu items for the user to 
> invoke those, preferably under a submenu Actions->Online->... or similar. 
> These menu items should appear both in the Register's action menu as well as 
> the account tree's action menu.
> 
> Of course, those menu items should only be there for those who compile gnucash 
> with --enable-hbci. I wonder what would be the best way to have menu items 
> appear in the mentioned menus, conditioned on --enable-hbci. For the account 
> tree window, this would be the menu initialization code in 
> src/gnome/window-acct-tree.c. For the register view, I would probably have to 
> add menu items manually in src/gnome/window-register.c, as the existing menu 
> items are all defined directly in the glade file.
> 
> I was thinking of defining HBCI_CFLAGS to contain "-DHAS_OPENHBCI" if 
> --enable-hbci was given, and to add that to src/gnome/Makefile.am's 
> AM_CFLAGS. Then, all menu code that gets added for HBCI online actions 
> support would be surrounded by #ifdef HAS_OPENHBCI / #endif. 
> 
> I know that this is not the most elegant solution possible. However,  does 
> anybody have a better proposal? Are there plans to enable adding menu items 
> from outside the src/gnome/window-*.c code, i.e., so that I can write the 
> menu item adding code into src/import-export/hbci/*.c? Otherwise the 
> mentioned solution is pretty much the only thing I can think of.
> 
> Christian
> 
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