New at creating extension - workflow, testing incremental changes?

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hleofxquotes

20 Aug, 2011 10:59 PM

I am new at this: creating MoneyDance extension. I just download and tried the dev package and it appears that the workflow is:
1. change codes 2. package extension jar file 3. re-install above package 4. Test and repeat

Am I correct on that? If yes, it would really helpful to be able to work in "expanded directory" mode:
. Have a file pointer to a working directory (save steps #2, #3)

FYI, I am looking into being to provide an extension to fully import MS Money (*.mny) file content into MoneyDance (via sunrrise).

  1. 1 Posted by Ben Spencer on 21 Aug, 2011 09:02 AM

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    Hi

    I am super excited that you are embarking on this project. I had not heard of the sunrise project until you mentioned it the other day on this forum. I looked into directly opening .mny files for importing into Moneydance about a year ago when I read that they were little more than slightly modified .mdb files. It turned out to be a fairly involved process and I abandoned it very early on. I am so glad you are interested in working on this, the process of exporting each account to a QIF file and importing into Moneydance is really terrible.

    I agree the work flow is quite laborious. I have emailed the lead developer asking if he has any recommendations.

    Ben Spencer
    Moneydance Support

  2. hleofxquotes closed this discussion on 29 Aug, 2011 01:28 AM.

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