I need some guidance

[Yawar Amin]

Hi David,

On 2015-02-24, at 9:06, David Christopher <chrstdvd at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
> 
> When you write code is Scheme script, are you literally building the
> Options, what I call a form, literally?  I have been looking at the Hello
> world .scm file while in a tutorial.  I understand I can change the text in
> a label, but how did the label get on the form, where did the form come
> from, and the buttons on the form?
> 
> Basically, I need a mental picture of what I am doing.
> 
> Is there a small tutorial that shows how to make the form and put controls
> on it?  Is that even what is being done?

I don't know if this will help but I have been trying to work on a 'wrapper' API to make it easier to create new reports: https://github.com/yawaramin/gc-decl-reports

Check out the file 'gc-decl-reports.scm', and specifically the Scheme function 'd:report'. In it I wrap up the commands that create a report in the existing API that comes with GnuCash.

The main thing it does is call the 'gnc:define-report' function and passes it, among other things, functions that return a GnuCash 'options' object and a 'document' object.

The 'gnc:define-report' function uses the defined options to create an options dialog box that can be shown when the user clicks the Options button.

Hope this helps,

Yawar