Register Column Widths

[David T.]

I'm including devel list for good reason.

I took a look through the source download for 2.2.5 (taken from http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.5.tar.gz) but when I expanded this, my copy did not have a src/register folder. Does that make sense? My 2.2.5 src looks like:

gnucash-2.2.5/src
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david    827 Jan  7 17:06 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david  20981 Apr 27 03:21 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david    476 Jan  7 17:06 README
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   2555 Jan  7 17:06 README.modules
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   3565 Jan  7 17:06 RecnWindow.h
drwxr-xr-x    6 david  david    204 Apr 27 03:22 backend
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   1957 Jan  7 17:06 base-typemaps.i
drwxr-xr-x   21 david  david    714 Apr 27 03:22 core-utils
drwxr-xr-x   31 david  david   1054 Apr 27 03:22 doc
drwxr-xr-x  103 david  david   3502 Apr 27 03:22 engine
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david    918 Jan  7 17:06 glib-compat.h
drwxr-xr-x   12 david  david    408 Apr 27 03:22 gnc-module
-rwxr-xr-x    1 david  david   3713 Jan  7 17:06 gnc-test-env
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   5225 Jan  7 17:06 gnc-ui.h
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   1525 Jan  7 17:06 guile-mappings.h
drwxr-xr-x   44 david  david   1496 Apr 27 03:22 pixmaps
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david  36779 Apr 27 03:22 swig-runtime.h
drwxr-xr-x    7 david  david    238 Apr 27 03:22 test-core
-rw-r--r--    1 david  david   5148 Jan  7 17:06 valgrind-gnucash.supp

Also, when I looked through the register folder in 2.2.4, I couldn't find any clear spot where the Description column is set to auto-resize. Is there some variable that I should use to find this?

David

--- On Wed, 6/4/08, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Register Column Widths
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Fleet Teachout" <fleet at teachout.org>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 8:11 PM
> It would be somewhere in src/register, I think.  I don't
> actually
> recall where it's configured.   Look for the definition
> and usage
> of the description column?
> 
> -derek
> 
> Quoting "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > Once again, this UI feature confuses a new user. Again
> I will state 
> > that I think it would be easier to make the register
> columns behave 
> > in the way that most users have come to expect than to
> have to 
> > repeatedly inform them of how GC developers have set
> this up.
> >
> > Where in the code is the auto-stretch feature set, and
> how might I 
> > change it either not to behave this way, or to be a
> selectable 
> > behavior option?
> >
> > David
> >
> > --- On Wed, 6/4/08, Derek Atkins
> <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> >> Subject: Re: Register Column Widths
> >> To: "Fleet Teachout"
> <fleet at teachout.org>
> >> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 5:35 PM
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Quoting Fleet Teachout <fleet at teachout.org>:
> >>
> >> > Didn't find this subject in the Wiki
> FAQs; so how
> >> do I modify the widths
> >> > of the columns in the register.  I got the
> date column
> >> to behave; but I
> >> > can't seem to change the width of any of
> the other
> >> columns.  In
> >> > particular, "description" which
> takes up
> >> most of the screen display.
> >> >
> >> > I'm using CentOS 5, Gnome desktop, and
> GnuCash
> >> 2.2.4.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >>
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_resize_my_register_columns.3F__Why_can_I_not_shrink_the_description_column.3F
> >>
> >>
> >> > 				- fleet -
> >>
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> >>
> >> -derek
> >>
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