2013-03-22 GnuCash IRC logs
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10:42:35 <joslwah> Are there any examples of getting the root account from the guile side of things? I'm looking for a way of getting the account root without starting from an account.
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10:49:55 <warlord> joslwah: gnc_book_get_root_account
10:51:07 <joslwah> And how do I get the book? (This is from guile). Can I use gnc_get_current_book?
10:51:15 <joslwah> And would that turn into gnc:get-current-book?
10:51:40 <joslwah> and would gnc_book_get_root_account turn into gnc:book-get-root-account?
10:51:51 <joslwah> And thanks warlord.
10:52:26 <warlord> joslwah: yes, maybe, maybe
10:53:14 <joslwah> O.k. So my issue is, given a C function, how do I establish whether it is usable from guile and then how do I work out the name?
10:53:59 <warlord> The answer is generally yes, it is, and it's generally the same name./
10:54:55 <joslwah> But with _'s turned into -'s?
10:54:59 <warlord> it's gnc-get-current-book, and
10:55:04 <warlord> yes.
10:55:42 <joslwah> Great. How did you confirm it? Not doubting you, just wanting to know the method so that I can follow the same logic rather than bugging you next time. 8-)
10:58:11 <warlord> 'find . -name \*.scm | xargs grep ....'
10:58:26 <joslwah> 8-)
10:58:31 <joslwah> O.k. So someone else has used it.
10:58:38 <joslwah> Fine.
10:58:54 <joslwah> Something similar was how I found the C version in the first place.
10:59:57 <warlord> :)
11:00:06 <warlord> what report are you writing/modifying?
11:00:09 <joslwah> Are they autogenerated during the compiling of gnucash? I didn't seem to find a stub when I searched a copy of the git download I'd looked for.
11:00:28 <warlord> Yes, the wrappers are auto-generated by swig.
11:00:54 <joslwah> Roughly speaking, I'm writing a report that will read in some csv files, and then check which accounts and transactions exist and then create accounts, add transactions and occasionally delete transactions.
11:02:13 <joslwah> I have an external account that is generating huge numbers of transactions, and quite a few accounts. Some of the transactions are tentative, and many are future dated but useful to have for planning purposes.
11:02:38 <joslwah> Oh, and they really don't like giving some of the transactions. It is all or nothing.
11:03:37 <joslwah> I'd prefer to keep everything in gnucash rather than creating a separate database to filter everything through. And I don't think you can get imports to automagically delete transactions. Hence writing the report to control everything.
11:04:03 <joslwah> I've basically got the guile parsing of the reports I have done. Now I just need to get the gnucash interface.
11:05:10 <joslwah> Once I've done that then I'll use the framework for a friend who is doing a different sort of project but would benefit from being able to do similar manipulations. I'm sort of generating a middle "interface" that hopefully my code will interpret and merge accurately with the gnucash state.
11:05:52 <joslwah> Is that just clear as mud?
11:06:08 <joslwah> Perhaps the correct thing to do would be to learn python, but I'd prefer not to.
11:06:12 <joslwah> So I'm doing it this way.
11:06:31 <joslwah> Learning guile was easy. And it isn't too bad to program in.
11:13:09 <warlord> :)
11:13:55 <joslwah> I'm just trying to get the API down now.
11:14:16 <joslwah> It is going to be one ugly report, but it won't display much.
11:14:49 <warlord> LOl
11:15:28 <joslwah> Perchance, does the root account have full name ""?
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11:17:31 <joslwah> Got it! 8-) Right. I think I can now find accounts and whether or not they exist.
11:18:00 <joslwah> Good progress, especially since I think it might help me work out how to work out how to do the rest. Thanks very much.
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11:20:17 <warlord> You are welcome.
11:20:25 <warlord> Do you plan to donate your code once you're done?
11:20:25 <warlord> ;)
11:21:43 <joslwah> I'd be happy to do so. I'll have to tidy up a chunk of it but can then describe the interface and contribute that side of things.
11:22:01 <joslwah> The other side would be much more situation specific.
11:22:34 <joslwah> However, you may well have to bug me and remind me. I've got a lot on my plate at the moment and by the time it is off my plate I may well forget.
11:23:57 <warlord> I'll do my best
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20:49:28 <T2> How do I do Dividends in T2 and not have to use shareholder loan to balance the balance sheet
20:49:39 <T2> assets are lower then liabilities and shareholder equity
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21:52:50 <mossyfunk> Hi. I have a business which involves taking deposits on containers. I currently have setup an expense account for money I have invested out of my own pocket for the containers which is linked to an asset account so the asset account shows in the negative, I can then see this weighed against the asset account for income earned. I want to setup an account for deposit's held on containers but I'm not sure how to do this. I ha
21:52:51 <mossyfunk> ve tried creating an asset account with a starting balance that equals the price of containers so I could link transactions from that to a liability account so I know what's going on, but the balance of the asset account for the containers is shown as a positive in equity, which affects my system of weighing income against dept for my personal investment. I hope this makes sense. Just wondering if there is a better way to
21:52:51 <mossyfunk> do this with the deposits as it's inherantly confusing.
22:02:51 <mossyfunk> Should I just have the deposits as income and transfer from that account into a liability account?
22:19:48 <mossyfunk> Don't worry I sorted it. Just treating the deposits as income linked to a Liability account. Man I find this stuff confusing haha
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