On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:51 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Ryan M. Ward wrote: > >> How does it communicate with Gnucash? Does it remotely access your computer >> via a network I assume? >> >>> Subject: Re: Three projects for Gnucash >>> From: jra...@ceridwen.us >>> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 14:01:11 -0800 >>> CC: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> To: silvercro_mag...@hotmail.com >>> >>> >>> On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Ryan M. Ward wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hello All, >>>> I am interested in working on three projects for Gnucash (two for right >>>> now, one later), and was wondering if anyone had thoughts or suggestions: >>>> >>>> 1) Implementing a way of storing receipt images (scanned or from a cell >>>> phone, etc....) in a database- referenced by transaction (IE from the >>>> ledger, you would have the option of looking up the reciept associated >>>> with a particular transaction, and/or querying a collection of >>>> transactions and collecting all of their associated receipts- my thought >>>> here is mainly for income tax purposes- I do not envision GNUCash being a >>>> tax preparer, but this database would be nice for this and other purposes) >>>> >>>> 2) Implementing an interface between Android/iPhone applications and >>>> Gnucash- at this point I am thinking via PC/USB connection >>>> >>>> 3) Extending the functionality of the budget system (which I very much >>>> like) to include more automatic setup for home budget users, credit card >>>> payoff plans, etc.... >>> >>> Those are all interesting ideas. I think that there's already an iOS app >>> that communicates with Gnucash, though Apple doesn't let apps use the USB >>> for communicating with a computer; they have to use the network. > > Please copy your replies to the list; use either reply-all or, if your mail > client supports it, reply-list. > > I suppose that you're referring to the iOS app. I don't know much about it, > but I know that Gnucash has no network interface built in, so any companion > app has to link to our libraries and access the dataset through that > interface in C, Scheme, or Python. >
Ah, here it is: http://smb-soft.com/common-software/business-applications/52 It uses QIF export/import to communicate with Gnucash. Since Gnucash doesn't export QIF, it's one-way communications. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
