[GNC-dev] Currencies in Price Database UI gone weird in 3.4

Wm wm_o_o_o at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 17 20:08:50 EST 2019


On 14/01/2019 15:14, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 14, 2019, at 12:04 AM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 13, 2019, at 7:44 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried to get new exchange rates today for the first time since updating to 3.4.   Tools / Price Database / Currencies was largely unpopulated.  I looked in the file and the prices are there.  I reverted to 3.3 and all looks well again.
>>>
>>> Would someone else that uses one or two currencies other than their home currency have a look if things are looking odd for them too?
>>>
>>> Effect seems the same with both XML and sqlite backends.
>>>
>>> Stock prices seem OK, it is just the currencies that have gone wrong.
>>>
>>> I thought I'd ask here first as I can't see it mentioned on the bug list and it seems to obvious a thing for everyone to have missed so possibly something at my end though I can't think what.
>>
>> I see the same thing.  I hadn’t noticed since I rarely open the price editor dialog and prices are still there and transactions find them when relevant.  If there’s not a bug report for this, you should file one.
>>
>> I also noticed that it seems to be impossible to edit a transaction when the price editor is open.  It is permanently in front of the register window and seems to steal all keyboard events.
> 
> Indeed, all of the dialogs seem to have gone partly modal. I noticed that for the reconciliation dialog last week; I couldn’t switch to the register to edit a transaction with an error, and just now I found I couldn’t switch away from the security editor, either.

I think the modal stuff is separate.  The original report about 3.4, 
confirmed by MikeA, stands.




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