Tool to split off old years from Gnucash-Files released

[Doug Laidlaw]

I think that I asked the same question after the previous version.  That is 
Open Source for you - here is the code; see if you can make it do something.

Doug.
On Thursday 04 December 2008 6:58:18 pm zed wrote:
> "Marcus Wolschon" <marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/11/26  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:
> > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:21:09PM +0100, Manfred Usselmann wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:06:57 -0500 hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > > > > It's just that the gnucash developers seem to be talking of
> > > > > migrating from XML to a data base, and that would render an
> > > > > XML-based tool less useful.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using an XML-based tool to generate the reports I need
> > > > > end-of-year. I dread the day I'll have to rewrite them.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it will still be possible to export to an XML file, which you
> > > > could then use to generate your reports...
> > >
> > > That would be useful for a lot of people.
> >
> > I just released the new version 2.0.11 of the GnucashEditor from
> > jGnucashLib at
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=147662
> >
> > It contains this tool as a plugin in "Tools->Splitter". You first select
> > the new historic file to create and then enter the date to split at, wait
> > a second for it to run and save the current file.
> >
> > It works fine with a single currency. Please file a bug if you find any
> > issues regarding multiple currencies. I'll try to test that these cases
> > in detail before the start of next week (monday).
> >
> > Once it is confirmed that it works fine, I can mark it as stable in the
> > wiki.
>
> Hello Marcus
>
> A stupid question for you. I've downloaded JGnucashLib and extracted it but
> what do I do now, please.
>
> Zed