Reminders

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Uhl <ruhl at 4dv.net> writes:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> >
> > Sorry, Linux isn't Windows..  When you start Windows, you _ARE_
> > starting Quicken -- just not the quicken UI.  Gnucash doesn't force
> > itself upon you.
> 
> Which is good.  OTOH, this is obviously useful functionality.  It would
> be nice to be able to generate a quick reminder of bills due on login,
> session start or what-have-you, no?  And it'd be nice not to have the
> overhead of gnucash starting just to do that, no?

Maybe.  I'm not convinced it's worth _OUR_ time to work on it.
Why not just start gnucash when you login?  It's not that much
overhead -- so it adds 10 seconds to your login time -- so what?

> > If you want to see when your bills are due, you have to start gnucash.
> 
> Is it possible to write a quick little script which parses a gnucash
> file, extracts the scheduled transactions/bills/what-have-you coming up,
> and displays them in a window or echos them to a console?

I don't know -- I've never tried.  I know you could do this for
the business bills (indeed, this is what it currently does at
session startup), but I don't know if the scheme hooks exist for
scheduled transactions.

-derek

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