Beyond 2.6

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
>> 
>>> Indeed. I mostly meant to suggest our *engine* should be totally
>>> multi-platform. The gui should be adapted to the target OS and
>>> form-factor anyway. I wouldn't want to use a gui similar to current
>>> GnuCash's one on an Android tablet for example. Having the engine
>>> available on say Android, that could make Ngewi's work a lot easier:
>>> instead of importing/exporting, he could plainly open a real gnucash
>>> datafile and work directly on it. That doesn't mean the GnuCash on
>>> Android tool should support all the features GnuCash on
>>> Linux/OSX/Windows does, but it would be able to properly load and save
>>> the file without any data loss.
>> 
>> I think in the long run it would behoove us to try to migrate more of
>> the "business logic" into a core platform, too.  But I'm not sure
>> exactly how to do that in a clean way that provides "real-time"
>> validation of inputs, without it being tied into the GUI.
>
> What do you mean by "real-time validation of inputs"?

I mean, e.g, making sure an Account has a name entry, and that it's
unique, and that the account type is valid based on the parent..  Those
kinds of input validation that's currently done in the dialog.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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