remembering & printing payee addresses?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jan 13 12:42:47 EST 2014
Hi,
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> writes:
>> If this feature is so important to you then you could always code in the
>> feature and donate it. I don't know offhand the right way to do it;
>> there isn't a good place to store the information or even a good object
>> to attach the address.
>>
>> We DO have an Address sub-object abstraction available, but it's not a
>> primary object in its own right.
>
>
> Thanks for the invitation. To accomplish this, we might want to
> link GnuCash with one of the most popular standard address books like
> that of Gmail or to a local database address table. Then if that
> feature were enabled, it could automatically link to the appropriate
> file and supply the address there if it were available. To simplify
> programming, the space for Address when printing checks could be
> display only, with a refresh button inviting the user to add or change
> the address in the reference database but not do it in GnuCash.
I don't think we would want to add yet another dependency just to add
this feature. It would be better to store it internally.
> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with either C or Scheme, and it
> would probably require more work than I'm ready to devote to this.
Most (if not all) of the work here would be in C.
> Thanks for all you do to make such great software freely
> available and usable by others.
>
>
> Best Wishes,
> Spencer Graves
-derek
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