Bugs?

[Black, Nathan]

-----Original Message-----
From: Conrad Canterford [mailto:conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:56 AM
To: Dave Peticolas
Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Bugs?


Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Conrad Canterford writes:
> > This is potentially a bug. When I modify an entry that has been
> > reconciled (reconciled flag = 'y'), it does not change the flag.
> > Logically, I would have thought this was incorrect.
> > I'm guessing the probably correct way of "fixing" this problem is to not
> > allow people to edit reconciled entries, but that may be a bit heavy
> > handed for some peoples liking.
> Maybe just a warning dialog to the effect that you are changing a
> reconciled transaction. Prevents accidents, but is less heavy-handed.

>Good idea, but my pedantic mind says it should probably still change the
>reconciled flag (I haven't checked the code, would that confuse the
>reconciliation stuff?).

I hate to compare to an MS product, but Microsoft Money just prompts with a
dialog that states that it's reconciled so don't change the amount or it
will cause you a headache.  My wording.   I think it would be awful to have
it change the flag.  

My .02

Nathan