custom reports

[Derek Atkins]

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:

>> I think learning scheme would be easy.  The syntax can be learned in a
>> day.  There's a great reference from MIT on Scheme that you can use.
>> You might find that Scheme is both fun and very powerful.  See the Wiki
>> for more information on writing Custom Reports.
>
> Yes, it's easy to learn Scheme.  It's not a big languagel nor is it a 
> tarpit.
>
> What's hard is figuring out how to get the information out of GnuCash 
> into Scheme.  Or has this documentation improved since last I looked at 
> it?

I dont know when you looked, but swig does not do a good job of
target-language documentation.  So the best we have is the C API
documentation in doxygen, and looking at other reports.  See
http://code.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/

> -- hendrik

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-derek

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