scheduled loan payment setup question

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Dec-2002, Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au> wrote:

| What I believe should be the next step then, is to allow user-provided
| (scheme, probably) routines to be used to calculate the interest in the
| druid - precisely what John was asking for. Unfortunately, unless there
| is something I'm not aware of, there is no user interface to allow the
| "plugging in" of such routines just at the moment.

Yes, this would be nice to have eventually, but in the mean time, it
seems that it is possible (at least with the current CVS version of
gnucash) to define a scheduled payment that uses a specialized
function (written in Scheme) to solve this problem without going
through the druid.  The problem is that I don't know how to go about
extending gnucash in nontrivial ways.  I was hoping that someone on
this list might be able to help me get started.

Thanks,

jwe

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