--add-price-quotes not working

[Jonas Lippuner]

Hi David,

Thanks for your response. I haven't figured the problem out yet. I've 
been waiting for replies and yours is the first.

My path actually didn't include any spaces but I also moved the file to 
my D:\ drive (as opposed to a subfolder thereof) and tried the 
add-price-quotes on that file. Unfortunately, I got the same (negative) 
result.

I have no experience with Perl at all. Is there a way to debug Perl and 
see what is going on when the console window appears for a second (it 
remains blank, even when fetching the quotes does work)?


Thanks,
Jonas


------ Original Message ------
From: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Date: July 8, 2012 3:36:57 PM GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
To: Jonas Lippuner <jonas at lippuner.ca>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: --add-price-quotes not working

> I haven't seen any replies to your problem. Did you figure it out?
>
> I am on a Mac, but there were troubles with the command line
> add-price-quotes option on the Mac when the path included a space in it.
> Is it possible that your "\path\to\my\gnucash\file" includes a space,
> and if so, does moving it to a path without one fix the problem?
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Jonas Lippuner <jonas at lippuner.ca>
> *To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 3, 2012 8:41 PM
> *Subject:* --add-price-quotes not working
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've been using GnuCash for a while and I just created my own Perl
> module to automatically fetch the current NAV of a mutual fund of mine.
> Getting this quote as well as any other currency exchange rates works
> very well when I use Tools > Price Editor > Get Quotes in GnuCash.
>
> But since I don't want to have to click that button all the time, I wold
> like GnuCash to execute the "Get Quotes" function automatically on startup.
>
> I found that I could execute the command
>
> gnucash --add-price-quotes "D:\path\to\my\gnucash\file"
>
> When I execute this command, a console window appears showing that
> perl.exe is being executed. However, the window disappears very quickly
> and none of the prices seem to get updated. When I click on "Get Quotes"
> in GnuCash, the same window appears, but it takes much longer until it
> disappears again (after which the prices are all updated). So it seems
> that the --add-price-quotes command line option does not work.
>
> Furthermore, when I start GnuCash, the same window with perl.exe being
> executed appears for about the same amount of time as when I use the
> --add-price-quotes option. So it seems that GnuCash would actually
> automatically update all the prices on startup (which is exactly what I
> want), but it simply doesn't work. It only works when I manually click
> on "Get Quotes"...
>
> I'm using GnuCash 2.4.10 built form svn r22003 on 2012-02-11 on Windows
> 7 Professional (64 bit).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jonas
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