Webkit status (updated)

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Tue Mar 31 21:48:47 EDT 2009


On March 31, 2009 05:44:20 pm Chris Dennis wrote:
> Yes!  It works, and it's wonderful.
>
> I started from scratch in an empty directory, and checked out the webkit
> branch again, ran autogen.sh and this:
>    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnucash-webkit --enable-webkit \
>      --enable-debug --enable-doxygen --enable-error-on-warning \
>      --enable-compile-warnings
> This time config.h DID include a definition of WANT_WEBKIT, and webkit
> gets included and used.  (I did have to make one change to get it to
> compile -- see the patch below).
>
> So now, reports can use proper CSS stylesheets, giving full control of
> fonts and sizes and colours etc., all of which is easy using
> eguile-gnc.scm.
>
> This is a big step forward for GnuCash reporting.  I'm celebrating with
> a nice cup of tea.

I think I actually removed that line in your patch because it wasn't needed.  
Anyhow, your change gets you going.

I think it would be really cool if you could come up with an example of a 
really good looking report, negative values in red, etc.

Phil


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