Custom Report loading

[Derek Atkins]

Jason Dunham <jwdunham at gmail.com> writes:

[snip]
> Did work:
> (load-from-path "D:\\jason\\gnucash\\custom\\JasonsReport.scm")
>
> OK, so now GC can load the report, which is clone of hello-world.scm with new
> names.  However GC 2.3.8 crashes silently on load. there is nothing in the
> trace file, except a couple of unrelated lines which were there with no report
> loaded at all.  I also tried an unmodified copy of hello-world.scm and it
> crashes the same way.
>
> I tried hello-world.scm from GC 2.2.9 and it gets farther, with the following
> trace:

You cannot use an un-modified version of the report.  You have to change
the report name and the report GUID.  Did you do so?

>     *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2229 bytes.
>     The identifiers might not be very random.
>     *   WARN <gnc.app-utils> <unnamed port>: In procedure scm-error in
>     expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...):
>     <unnamed port>: not-a-record #f
>     In unknown file:
>        ?:  0* [primitive-load-path "D:\\jason\\gnucash\\custom\\
>     hello-world.scm"]
>     In D:\jason\gnucash\custom\hello-world.scm:
>      460:  1* [gnc:define-report version 1 ...]

Well, it's clearly loading your report...

>     In unknown file:
>        ?:  2  (letrec ((args-to-defn #) (blank-report #)) (let (#) (if # #
>     #)))
>     In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\scm/report.scm:
>         ...
>      116:  3  (begin (if # #) (if # #) ...)
>      117:  4* (if (gnc:report-template-name report-rec) (begin # # # ...))
>      118:  5  (begin # # # ...)
>      137:  6* [gnc:report-template-save-to-savefile #]
>      595:  7  (let (# #) (display saved-form #) (force-output))
>      596:  8* [gnc:report-template-generate-saved-forms #]
>      558:  9  (let* (# # # ...) (gnc:report-generate-saved-forms-string name
>     type ...))
>      560: 10* [gnc:report-template-name #f]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 11  (and (eq? (quote #) (record-type-descriptor obj)) (struct-ref
>     obj 1))
>        ?: 12* [eq? #<record-type <report-template>> ...
>        ?: 13*  [record-type-descriptor #f]
>        ?: 14   (if (struct? obj) (struct-vtable obj) (error (quote
>     not-a-record) obj))
>          ...
>        ?: 15   [scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" (not-a-record #f) #f]

This looks like it's trying to load a saved report but not finding it?

> I guess I need to open a bug on this, but if anyone has any tips, that would
> be great.
>
> Jason

-derek

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