splitting account (with child account) balances

[Derek Atkins]

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:26:37PM -0700, chris wrote:
>> 
>> thanks for the example michael.
>> 
>> i took a look at the report file on my install and have decided to give up on this and stick with copy values from gnucash into a spreadsheet.  the reports seem way to complicated for me to sift through and learn how to modify/write.  no offense to gnucash, of coruse, most likely just a sign of my level of development knowledge.
>
> I've found it easier to write a C++ program that reads the gnucash file 
> and gereat reports from that.  The documentation for the Scheme 
> functions that are needed to access gnucash's data base just seems to be 
> excessively lacking.  Or am I not looking in the right place?

Most likely the latter; the C and Scheme APIs are pretty much the same.
Unfortunately swig doesn't provide documentation of wrappers, but the
C functions are close enough:

  http://code.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/

> I'm going to have to do this, though, when gnucash abandons the xml data 
> base.

Yep.

> -- hendrik

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