AqBanking Issues on Snow Leopard

Andre Powell apowell656 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 14:05:40 EDT 2010


Martin,
Thanks for the quick response. I am able to make it work, but like you said it will be awhile for the fix will be implemented.

Best Regards,
Andre Powell



On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Martin Preuss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mittwoch 11 August 2010, Andre Powell wrote:
> [...]
>> If there is something that could be done to fix this that would be great,
>> but it is definitely an annoyance.
> [...]
> 
> Is the QT4 version of the AqBanking wizard in use here? If so: That one is 
> terrible. It was created using Trolltechs qt3to4 porting tool which apparently 
> didn't work too well in porting the qt3 code to qt4.
> 
> There had been some attempts to fix the result of qt3to4 but there are still 
> some surprising and unfixed side effects.
> 
> That's one reason why we now use toolkit independent dialogs in AqBanking5 
> (introduced by the latest releases of libgwenhywfar).
> 
> This has the advantage that the dialog logic is now shared by all GUI 
> frontends so the dialogs are very well tested. It's only the dialog 
> *presentation* which has to be implemented for the various toolkits. Currently 
> we have implementations for GTK2, QT4 and FOX1.6. An implementation for Cocoa 
> (for native Cocoa applications) is also in the works.
> 
> This also allows for the applications to execute the various dialogs (e.g. 
> banking setup, generic file import with an editor for CSV profiles etc) in the 
> context of the application so starting an external application is no longer 
> required. For GnuCash this would also mean that there is no longer a 
> dependency on QT when using the new dialogs.
> 
> Unfortunate this doesn't help you immediately as long as these dialogs aren't 
> used by GnuCash, but if I understand correctly Christian started some work to 
> make GnuCash support them.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Things are only impossible until they're not"
> 
> Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/
> AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/
> LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/



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