how to hook OpenHBCI menu items in the register window

[Christian Stimming]

Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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.


Certainly an interface for auto-adding menu items would absolutely be 
the right solution here. Are you volunteering to writing such an 
interface? I'm not. If you are not, too, then the question is how I can 
go ahead in the meantime.

My proposal for such an interim-solution was described in my previous 
msg. Do you or anyone else have alternative suggestions? I'd be grateful 
for them. Otherwise I'd just proceed as described, but as soon as 
somebody provides a generic menu-item-adding interface, I'd happily 
remove those code lines from src/gnome/ again.

Christian

> Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> writes:
>>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