[GNC] GNUCash & Macros

Jack Frillman jcf_m_lists at me.com
Wed May 26 18:56:16 EDT 2021


Unfortunately that's a Windows app.
I'm OSX or Linux user.

On 5/26/21 12:04 PM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> You could look into AutoHotkey.  I use it to automate other 
> non-GNUCash things, but I don't see why it couldn't work, 
> especially if you can do what you need to do via keystrokes.
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:15 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com 
> <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
>
>     HI,
>
>     On Wed, May 26, 2021 11:09 am, Jack Frillman wrote:
>     > I have repetitive task I do every day and I would like to reduce the
>     > number of steps to do that task.
>     >
>     > More specifically I import stock/mutual fund and precious metal
>     prices
>     > from a CSV file. Currently I go through the multi-step process
>     the GUI
>     > walks you through. This is easy enough but I can be ultra lazy
>     at times
>     > and would like to execute that import process using a macro if
>     possible.
>
>     Thank you for explaining what you'd like to do. Unfortunately, no,
>     there
>     is no way to automate those processes in the UI.  The closest
>     thing you
>     can do is write some scripts (in Python) to do the work.
>
>     -derek
>
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