--add-price-quotes not working

[David T.]

You shouldn't need to understand the Perl to get this to work, as far as I know. A couple of things:

* Try looking at wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows and getting the tracefile. This can be sent to the list, or something in it might jump out at you. I've been known to put the wrong file name into my command line, which will give pretty negative results...

* Try seeing if you have an invalid security, as this might short circuit the process

David



________________________________
 From: Jonas Lippuner <jonas at lippuner.ca>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: --add-price-quotes not working
 
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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