Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

The default for all systems is XML. You can choose to save your file as type sqlite instead. (the XML version will still be on disk, so if you work in the sqlite file make sure to treat the XML as an archive - it won’t contain newer transactions.) This will result in every change being saved

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I am using GC as downloaded for Mac / Intel from https://gnucash.org . So whatever database that would be by default is what I am using. (How would I specify a different backend?) - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 15 Dec 2019, at 20:00, Adrien Monteleone

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Reproducing the problem is an issue as well. Are you using the XML or a db backend? That shouldn’t be an issue with the GUI but it might make a difference on saving column widths as with sqlite for example, saves are instant. (I’m using sqlite and all my column width changes are ’sticky’ and I

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I will happily make another donation to the project if this issue is resolved ;-) - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 15 Dec 2019, at 19:18, David Carlson wrote: > > That tidbit of information may be useful to the developers. > > David Carlson > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:12

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

That tidbit of information may be useful to the developers. David Carlson On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:12 PM Axel Essbaum wrote: > > Restarting GC with open invoices results in all date fields collapsing to > the original too-narrow width. > > This is why I try to avoid closing GC (I typically

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Restarting GC with open invoices results in all date fields collapsing to the original too-narrow width. This is why I try to avoid closing GC (I typically have 30+ invoices open). - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 15 Dec 2019, at 18:38, David Carlson wrote: > > Oops, Be sure

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Oops, Be sure to leave the invoice open with the resized date field when you close GnuCash. On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 11:34 AM David Carlson wrote: > Axel, > > Try resizing the date field in one invoice, then close GnuCash > altogether. Reopen GnuCash and reopen that invoice. > > You may get

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Axel, Try resizing the date field in one invoice, then close GnuCash altogether. Reopen GnuCash and reopen that invoice. You may get different results if you follow that procedure. David Carlson On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 2:31 AM Axel Essbaum wrote: > > Updated to 3.7. Date field issue did not

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Op zondag 15 december 2019 00:14:56 CET schreef David Carlson: > David H, you have a good memory. I found < > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796736> which shows the same > problem with the date. However, the penultimate comment by John Ralls > states that when the size is manually set

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

On 14 December 2019 at 11:51, David Carlson said: > Now we making some progress! > > Since I do not use invoices and I am also living in the past on release > 2.6.19 in Linux, my experience is not germane, but I will note that I see > a tendency in regular account register windows for the date

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Nit: Actually, updating to 3.7 resized all my ~30 already-open invoice's date fields back to the default too-narrow. :-/ — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 15 Dec 2019, at 09:28, Axel Essbaum wrote: > > > Updated to 3.7. Date field issue did not change. Calendar button still >

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Updated to 3.7. Date field issue did not change. Calendar button still pushes date off the left and double-click still collapses date field even further. And date field with is still not remembered if the invoice tab is closed and reopened. - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Haha, less is more, I don't like/use autosave either just save when I want to so maybe that's why the manual adjustment works ok for me :-) Cheers Dave H. On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 09:15, David Carlson wrote: > David H, you have a good memory. I found < >

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

David H, you have a good memory. I found < https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796736> which shows the same problem with the date. However, the penultimate comment by John Ralls states that when the size is manually set it should stick for subsequent use. I personally have found that it is

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I don't use any of the business features/invoices either but this is the default behaviour in normal account register windows on Win 10 as well. I get around it by manually widening all date columns to allow for the drop down arrow when the date is highlighted. If I double click the header to

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Hmm... I didn’t notice this back when I was using 3.6 but it might have happened for me as well. I’m presently on 3.7 and I’ve since upgraded to Catalina. Perhaps try 3.7 on Mojave and see if the problem is resolved. (3.7 was released in September, and another is on the way at the end of this

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

When I asked about date format I was mainly fishing for more details about when and how this happens. I too have changing widths but I see that mostly when I copy the GCM stuff from one machine to another with a different display size, so I write it off to that, where it would be expected. David

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Now we making some progress! Since I do not use invoices and I am also living in the past on release 2.6.19 in Linux, my experience is not germane, but I will note that I see a tendency in regular account register windows for the date fields (and the three amount fields) to change width from week

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Why would the format of the date have any effect on this? Whether it is 12/12/2019 or 12/12/2019, the sequence of elements is immaterial. I should clarify that I see this in the registers, not invoices. I should also say that it appears to me that the column width gets set, and then the drop

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Manually widening the date field applies only to that invoice, and only as long as the invoice's tab is open. If I close the invoice's tab and reopen I get a narrow date fields again. Creating a new invoice also results in a narrow date field. As far as I can tell no adjustment to field

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Ah, now I understand. Curious that it doesn’t show the entire first part of the date by default. (it does for me) If you manually make the column wide enough to show the full date, (drag the right-hand header divider to the right) and then post that invoice, does the next new invoice carry

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I use day.month.year (Europe). PDFs are ok - I see no correlation between the column widths within GC and how the PDF appears. Changing to US format doesn't help. See below. It looks like today is February 14th! http://essbaum.com/images/US.png - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com >

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

David T, Since you are seeing the same issue as Axel, I have to ask: Do you use a Day/Month/Year date format or Month/Day/Year? Does that make a difference? and for both David and Axel, When invoices are printed, are the printouts also cut off? There has been a lot of discussion here but so

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

What is the date for the bottom line (the line with the widget) in the image? It appears to be 1.12.19 but it's actually 11.12.19 (the first "1" is chopped off and not visible). - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On 14 Dec 2019, at 14:10, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > If the

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

If the first image is the default, (as it is for me) what is the problem? Every part of the date is visible even with the widget. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 14, 2019 w50d348, at 2:37 AM, Axel Essbaum wrote: > > > When I double-click the date header the date field shrinks to the width of > the

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

When I double-click the date header the date field shrinks to the width of the date text (xx.xx.), which is actually worse than how it started. First image is how the date field is sized when I create an invoice http://essbaum.com/images/GC_before.png After date field double click:

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Axel, When you double clicked the date column header, did you follow that with a double click of the description column header? If the date column is fully in view, but too narrow to display all of the characters in the fields, double clicking its column header might have widened the column, and

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I agree - ideally we could control which columns are used in invoices. I never use most of them - they are just a waste of space. As an alternative being able to set initial column width (in pixels, or percent, etc.) would be a workaround as we could set columns to 0 or 1 if they are not

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

My experience is limited to register displays in releases up to 2.6.19, so I do not expect details to be identical. GnuCash uses variable width fonts so the digit one is less wide than other digits. Any date with a one in it is less wide than other dates, and about a third of all dates have

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

> On Dec 12, 2019 w50d346, at 1:35 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > How would the code know how wide the entire date is when it may take months > to see a date with all wide digits when only selected dates appear. Date > field also randomly expands when that pesky calendar widget appears.

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

How would the code know how wide the entire date is when it may take months to see a date with all wide digits when only selected dates appear. Date field also randomly expands when that pesky calendar widget appears. Value fields at least seem to get properly fitted and. Stay fitted for a long

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

I just tested this on a new invoice. Sure enough, the column does shrink to fit, but it doesn’t take into account the down arrow calendar widget which overlays the date. This is a tough design choice. Should the widget have forced padding? If so, then people with not as wide screens will

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Double-clicking a column header sizes it to fit the contents. (at least for me) This means my Date column shrunk slightly because I had some padding. But doing this on the Description column didn’t cause it to adjust to fit the window, it caused it to expand and gave me a scroll bar that wasn’t

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Axel, Just to confirm that you're not going crazy, I've seen the same behavior on the date field for a long time. As you describe, the date field width is optimized for display without the drop down triangle; the triangle causes erroneous display as you describe. I seem to fecal that the

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Hi Greg, Thanks for the suggestion. Double-clicking on the date header collapses the column even further, so that the entire day part of the date (I use format day.month.year) on the bottom line disappears off the left side of the screen. :-( - Axel — Axel Essbaum a...@essbaum.com > On

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

No attachment here either, and not a final solution, but I think the invoice columns auto size if you double click on the column header. Double click any column header that's over a too narrow column first, then double click the header over the description column and it will give up enough of any

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Axel, Your attachment did not make it as far as my inbox, but your description is very clear to me. However, I am not a developer, and I do not have any experience to offer suggestions for your issue with GnuCash. I do not know if it is an issue that is an artifact of the fact that your date

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Trying again with attachment at the very end. GC retains the column width for each invoice over the life of that invoice. The issue is that new invoices don't inherit any of this - they all start with a narrow date field. See at the bottom (I hope). I can't tell if the date of the bottom

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Axel, Also make sure they're on the end of the email after all text including signatures. The list server eats inline attachments. GnuCash is supposed to remember things like column widths so that you need set them only once. Is that not working for the Invoice date column--or perhaps any

Re: [GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Hi Axel Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 08:53 Uhr schrieb Axel Essbaum : > > > Hi All, > > MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.6. Pictures say it all (hope this list allows > attachments!) : There was no attachment, neither in the mail nor on the server:

[GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

Hi All, MacOS Mojave, GnuCash 3.6. Pictures say it all (hope this list allows attachments!) When I create a new invoice the date field opens too narrow to contain a date + v icon. This means as I populate the invoice I can never see the whole date on the bottom line. I get around this by