Testing the new SX code

[Dave Herman]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:19 -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:04 -0700, Dave Herman wrote:
> > Initial tests of svn r15402.
> > FC6, i386
> > 
> > Started with the sample data file posted in Bugzilla #394420.
> > 
> > Entered a single interest deposit, then pressed "Schedule" icon.
> > console log at this point follows.
> > 
> > =============================================================
> > [dvherman at IBMobil ~]$ LANG=en_US /opt/gnucash-svn/bin/gnucash
> [...]
> > (gnucash:585): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_date_set_month: assertion
> > `g_date_valid_month (m)' failed
> > 
> > (gnucash:585): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_date_strftime: assertion
> > `g_date_valid (d)' failed
> 
> Note that this issue (Bug#394420) was present before the sx-cleanup
> branch, and not on the sx-cleanup branch.  I was hoping to look at it
> today, but got distracted by Things and Stuff.  But it's right up there
> on the short list for bugs.

Was not nagging - just observing didn't go away.

> >[snip]

> > A couple of observations;
> > 1) The icons in the template transactions (Edit Scheduled Transaction
> > window) are active (mouse movement over highlights, and help window
> > displays!), the control buttons at bottom of screen have
> >  no reaction to mouse.  Which Cancel button would a user press?
> 
> I'm sorry, I'm not following.  There's the toolbar above the register,
> and the [Help     Cancel Ok] dialog buttons at the bottom of the, uh,
> dialog.  You're saying the dialog buttons aren't responsive?  They
> should also have a bit of a "hover" visual effect with the mouse over
> them, though this might be a function of your distro/desktop's theme.
> 
> As for cancel, the toolbar is the register's "cancel transaction"
> action, whereas the dialog Cancel is to cancel the editing operation.
> Two different cancel buttons isn't exactly ideal.
> 
> 
Duh - missed the similarity to account tree ...

attaching a screenshot - note no buttons at bottom.

Distro Fedora 6, Clearview (standard for docs shots), no KED what else
would be needed?


> > 2)The schedule Transaction window has not control buttons or directions.
> > I guessed that double clicking on a selected item would edit that item.
> 
> This is similar to the accounts tree, as well.  There are [New Edit
> Delete] toolbar buttons, as well as a new "Scheduled" menu when on this
> page ... though they do seem to get a bit lost.
> 
> 
see above duhhhh ...

> > 3) I had to completely delete my SVN folders and checkout a new copy
> > before my builds would complete, and run.
> 
> :(  It should have rebuilt them, maybe requiring `make clean`; that's
> all I did to merge the branch into trunk, in fact.
> 
> 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Dave
> 
> It does, thanks!
> 
Dave

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