Beyond 2.6

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> I don't have much experience with how this is done in general. It
> seems to me though that's a matter of defining the API's well.
>
> The GUI is supposed to know if some fields have to be
> validated. There's no way around this. But the GUI code doesn't have
> to know what the validation entails exactly. The core engine on the
> other hand does know exactly what is allowed for a given object and
> what isn't. The key is that the core engine should make some functions
> available for testing this, returning in the most simple case a yes/no
> reply (value is valid for object or not). In a more advanced set up it
> can also return a message that can be displayed to the user to explain
> why the input isn't valid.
>
> These functions are part of the core engine API and don't need to use
> any GUI framework related toolkit (like Qt, Glib, Gtk, WxWidgets
> stuff). We could keep the signal and the slots both in the GUI code,
> with the slots calling into the engine functions to do the real work.
>
> Did I understand this correctly ?

That's how it should work, IMHO, yes.  However that's not how it
currently works, and I suspect it might be a lot of work to convert
GnuCash code over to that way to doing things..

> Geert

-derek

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