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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