Entry of split transactions

[Mark Johnson]

Alan Su wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I installed and started using gnucash (v. 2.0.4) on my OS X machine
>via darwinports.  it looks like a pretty reasonable alternative to
>quicken.  I have encountered one quirk in creating a split
>transaction.  if i do the following:
>
> - create a transaction and click the Split button to get a split transaction
> - enter the description on the summary line
> - enter a debit value on the first split line; hitting Tab twice
>automatically creates a second split line populated with the
>appropriate credit value
> - hit Tab a couple times, select an account for the credit, tab to
>the amount and reduce it by some amount (in anticipation of a third
>split account)
>
>at this point, if i hit Tab, the third line is properly created with
>the remaining credit value to be assigned, but my cursor ends up in
>the date field of the main transaction line, whereas i would expect
>focus to move to the newly created split line.  could it have
>something to do with my environment (just running in an unmanaged X
>session), or is this the expected behavior?
>
>thanks,
>
>-alan
>
>  
>
It's a known bug.  Been around since at least 2.0.0.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347474

Mark