[GNC] Cursor Focus on Wrong Tab

[David H]

Hi David T.,

I seem to recall your original email but at the time I was unsure if what I
was seeing was the same issue and it seems to have gone away anyway, but
maybe it is the same thing :-)

My issue was that I was seeing the odd blank transaction in my savings
account register, coincidentally the register that is always next to the
accounts tab.  Additionally I used to have an issue with duplicating
transactions where the transaction was duplicated ok with today's date but
it seemed to be locked and I couldn't just tab across to update the
amount.  I probably tried both tabbing and hitting enter - perhaps that
created the blank transaction, who knows. I used to have to click on a
different transaction and then come back to the duplicate transaction to
update it for some reason so I was wondering if this was connected to the
blank transaction in some way.  Howsomever these little annoyances seem to
have gone away.  I'm pretty quick to update as soon as a new version comes
out and am currently running the latest test version (3.905) on Win 10, Win
7, MacOS Catalina.  I vaguely recall seeing a blank transaction as recently
as a couple of weeks ago which would have been on version 3.10 when I
opened gnucash on a pc I hadn't used for awhile.

I'm using Gnucash on multiple pc's - Win 7, Win 10, MacOS Catalina (x2),
Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and using dropbox to synchronise the file between
platforms.  My workflow consists of generally having 6 registers open in
addition to the accounts tab and I usually update a single register at a
time from right to left and normally always scroll down after updating each
register so the date in the blank transaction is highlighted when I tab to
the next register if it matters :-)

As I said I haven't seen one of these blank transactions for a while so
they may have gone away altogether.

What version of gnucash are you using and what os ?

Cheers David H.


On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 01:32, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I swear I reported troubles with this a long time ago, and I could have
> sworn I added a bug about it. My recollection was that I was the only
> person who could duplicate the issue, and so it never went anywhere
> further. However, I find no evidence on Bugzilla or in the lists. Alas.
> My search skills are clearly lacking.
>
> The issue is this: when I am in Tab "H" and duplicate a transaction by
> clicking the toolbar Duplicate button, once I have concluded the process
> by selecting a new date and pressing Enter, my cursor appears to be in
> tab "H", but is actually on Tab "B" (which is the first register
> account, after the COA). If I attempt to edit the transaction at this
> point, the transaction that receives input is NOT the visible
> transaction in tab H, but rather the hidden transaction on tab B.
>
> In the attached image, "Base Salary" is the aforementioned tab H, in
> which I have just created a new transaction by clicking the Duplicate
> button, choosing today's date and pressing Enter, which has created the
> 06/19/2020 transaction that is visible on screen.
>
> If you look down where the big arrow is pointing, however, you will see
> "66.59" clearly displayed. "66.59" is actually the value of a
> transaction in ****the Checking register****. If I start typing, the
> transaction that receives input *is in the Checking register and NOT the
> visible transaction in the Base Salary register.* I have to remember to
> use the mouse to actively click in the on screen transaction in order to
> "select" the transaction I just created on the currently-visible
> register and which appears to currently have focus.
>
> To say this is confusing is an understatement--and it only gets worse if
> I start typing, fail to see any change, and then remember to click the
> current register. Now, the visible register gets focus--and the hidden
> register (which has changes I unwittingly have made) gets a commit.
> Obviously, this can have significant negative effects: the transaction I
> blindly edited has changed and been saved. Maybe that transaction is now
> unreconciled. Maybe I put gibberish into the description. Maybe I put
> gibberish into the transfer account, and GnuCash will send me a
> mysterious message that the account doesn't exist, would I like to
> create it. Maybe I have changed the amount on that transaction.
>
> I hope that this email provides enough information that others can now
> see the problem that I have seen for a long time; if others can
> duplicate this, I'll enter a bug report.
>
> David T.
>
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