Large window size. Upgrade issue?

[query.20.kumarnospam at spamgourmet.net]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
I thought I might have to do it the hardway and had downloaded the source
for 2.2.6 to
see what I could, but it turned out to be much simpler.

I was able to isolate the issue and fixup my accounts.
The issue was:
I had some mutual funds for which I had given the entire funds name in the
SYMBOL field.
Normally for stocks I give the stock ticker symbol but for mutual funds I'd
just give the name.
To correct the situation all that one needs to do is pan the window to reach
the tools menu
and then select security editor and reduce the length of the symbol
involved. After this the window
becomes resizable and everything is normal.
(As a sidenote, it will be nice if GnuCash fixed this up so that we are not
allowed to create such
long symbols, or fix up the display so that it doesn't cause the window to
extend beyond the monitor.
Its pretty easy to repro this issue, just create a new file and add an
account of type mutual fund
and when adding the symbol, enter as many characters as it would allow. Then
save the file
and reopen, you should see the issue).

Regards,
Kumar.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Derek Atkins - warlord at MIT.EDU
<+query+kumarnospam+02be51dd35.warlord#MIT.EDU at spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> query.20.kumarnospam at spamgourmet.net writes:
>
> > Can I do some sort of export/Import to get this working?
> > I still have the old version 2.0.5 accessible on my FC6.
> > I also tried creating a new account there and opening it in 2.2.6.
> > That seemed to work fine. So its apparently something specific to
> > this file. (I have stocks and mutual funds in it but no scheduled
> > transactions).
>
> Things you can do:
>
> 1) remove the settings in ~/.gnucash for your data file
> 2) remove the gconf settings for gnucash
>
> > I also noticed that in my .gnucash/books/account file I had this:
> >
> [snip]
> > In WindowGeometry=1582 seems incorrect, since my resolution is only:
> > 1440x900.
> > I tried changing the value there to 1024, but that also didn't work. The
> > contents were
> > just overwritten with 1582 again.
>
> Did you change this while gnucash was running or did you quit gnucash
> and THEN edit this file?
>
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> -derek
>
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