Custom Report loading

[David T.]

Robert, 

I certainly agree with your points. It is an advanced process to create a custom report and make it available in Gnucash, I am sad to say. It really shouldn't be so hard to create a report. I can't wait to see what improvements come down the line with 2.4, since there have purportedly been major positive changes with the reporting subsystem. The current state of the art for creating and managing custom reports is not usable.

As for Gnucash's methods of handling slashes (forward or backward), as you note, the behavior is decidedly NOT Windows-like. It seems to me that "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" should apply.

David

--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: Custom Report loading
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "Jason Dunham" <jwdunham at gmail.com>, "Robert Heller" <heller at deepsoft.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4:28 AM
> At Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:27:35 -0800
> (PST) "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Forcing users to escape characters in the path under
> Windows seems bug-like, and certainly not what the average
> Windows user expects. Should this be filed as a bug report?
> 
> The 'average' MS-Windows user would not be 'typing'
> file/path names in
> a shell context -- they would be using a point-and-click
> interface. 
> Only (average) *unix* users would be messing with things at
> the CLI
> (shell) level.
> 
> OTOH, I believe the MS-Windows C library understands
> forward slashes
> (ala UNIX) as path element separators.
> 
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 1/22/10, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> > > Subject: Re: Custom Report loading
> > > To: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
> > > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org,
> "Jason Dunham" <jwdunham at gmail.com>
> > > Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:06 AM
> > > "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
> > > writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Friday 22 January 2010 12:14:09 Lincoln
> A. Baxter
> > > wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 21:00 -0800, Jason
> Dunham
> > > wrote:
> > > >> > I'm trying to write a custom report
> for
> > > Gnucash.  I'm using version 2.3.8
> > > >> > for Windows.
> > > >
> > > >  <SNIP>
> > > >
> > > >> > <unnamed port>: Unable to
> find file
> > > "JasonsReport.scm" in load path
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Any advice?
> > > >>
> > > >> I think GC is using Unix file system
> semantics, it
> > > is running with Unix
> > > >> system emulation libraries.
> > > 
> > > It can use both styles...
> > > 
> > > >> The D: or C: is being interpreted as
> Hostname:
> > > (remote system)
> > > >> The backslashes are being interpreted as
> escapes
> > > literalizing the
> > > >> following characters.
> > > 
> > > No, that's probably not the problem...  more
> likely
> > > it's the lack of
> > > double-backslash.
> > > 
> > > >> Try one of these three:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> //d/jason/gnucash/custom/JasonsReport.scm
> > > >>
> //c/users/jdunham/.gnucash/JasonsReport.scm
> > > >>
> /users/jdunham/.gnucash/JasonsReport.scm
> > > 
> > > These should work...
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Ah! beaten to it!
> > > >
> > > > Just a thought : you could also try escaping
> the
> > > backslash, which I think 
> > > > might be something like
> > > d\:\\jason\\gnucash\\..etc..etc. but I'm just 
> > > > guessing about that on windows.
> > > 
> > > I don't think you need to escape the colon, but
> yes, you
> > > need to use
> > > double-backslashes.
> > > 
> > > > HTH
> > > > Maf.
> > > 
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> > > -derek
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