I'd like to announce that a basic reports infrastructure is more or less in place, and generates a balance sheet and a profit-n-loss statement. A bit rickety, but functional. The code for this is in CVS. The reports are HTML based (html tables). This allows one to do the cute trick of opening the help window, reading about what a report is, clicking on the "click here" sign, and having the report come up. The main report window is a "frames" window, with a menu bar on the left, and the reports showing up in the bigger frame on the right. -- Requires ePerl to be installed. ePerl is "embedded Perl", the reports are in the form of "phtml" files, i.e. files that need to be parsed to create valid html (kind of like .asp or .nsf files, but perl-based). -- Requires XmHTML 1.1.15, since earlier versions don't do tables and don't do frames. I'd like to request help from some html masters in spiffing these up a bit, maybe getting a better color scheme in place, a couple of icons, etc. To be done: The order in which the accounts appear in the reports is a bit random at the moment. I hope to add support for a "chart-of-accounts" numbering system that would control the order in which the accounts are displayed. This may take a while ... Add support for method=get style queries, i.e. ?var=val&vartoo=nuther to the URL's. This should enable some truly fancy report generation including the use of html forms ... but this is lower priority ... --linas ----- %< -------------------------------------------- >% ------ The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe gnucash-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the body
