[un-SOLVED] Re: [SOLVED] Re: Accounts tab placement

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Dang, no good. was back at the bottom after exit and restart. guess I'll 
have to learn to deal...

A

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Sometimes I amaze myself. here's the solution if you are an old dog 
> avoiding new tricks like reordered tabs in the main window.
> 
> 1. SAVE (this caused a seg fault the first time I tried it...)
> 
> 2. Select "Accounts" tab.
> 
> 3. File -> open in a new window.
> 
> 4. Drag the window edges around until you can see both sets of tabs at 
> the same time without overlap
> 
> 5. drag-and-drop reports from old window to new window in the order you 
> want them to appear in tabs.
> 
> 6. when last report is dropped, old window will vanish.
> 
> 7. SAVE (something I do with great frequency, BTW).
> 
> 8. wait for the developers to scream at you for some cock-a-mamey (sp?) 
> scheme (no pun) for crashing your stuff and breaking your file (we'll see).
> 
> 9. ???
> 
> 10. Profit!
> 
> DISCLAIMER: IANAD(eveloper) and have no idea what, if any, consequences 
> there are for these actions (see 1 above about seg fault, don't know 
> why). But after nearly 30 seconds of rigorous and exhaustive testing, my 
> stuff is still there. ;-)
> 
> A
> 
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at farwestbilliards.com>:
>>
>>
>>> okay here's a silly little one...
>>>
>>> I have a good dozen or more reports open in one of my gnc files, 
>>> along with the usual account tree. Well, playing around one day (as 
>>> if i don't have enough to do)  I opened my account tree in another 
>>> window... when I closed it, my account tree ended up at the BOTTOM of 
>>> my tabs instead of at the TOP. Well, this is an INTOLERABLE SITUATION 
>>> ( ;-) and has completely disrupted my workflow. I cannot function 
>>> until the is remedied.
>>>
>>> seriously, though, is there a way to reorder the tabs without 
>>> destroying and recreating all the reports?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nope.
> 
> 
> hmmm...
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> -derek
>>
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