Clipboard bug?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:

> Assume I have an account register open with multiple transactions in it,
> displayed in Transaction Journal mode. Suppose I want to enter an identical
> memo in all of the transactions in that register, and in other registers as
> well (e.g., "Entered in 2008 tax return"). I enter the memo text in the
> appropriate split in the first transaction, select it, and 'Copy'. I can
> then 'Paste' it into splits in the subsequent transactions in the register.
> But if I go to a different account, 'Paste' is available on the Edit menu
> ('Cut' and 'Copy' are greyed out, which says to me that Gnucash thinks
> there's something on the clipboard), but if I try to paste to the memo field
> of a split in this new register, I get nothing, no text pasted. If I repeat
> what I did in the first account register, then it works in the the new one.
>
> Here's an interesting wrinkle: if I type the text into an Open Office text
> document and copy it, then what is on the clipboard persists as it should;
> in other words, I can paste into split memo fields in multiple account
> registers.
>
> It seems obvious that this is a bug, but thought before I enter it, I'd
> mention it here. It appears not to be in the bug database.

Sounds like a bug.
Did you close the first register before opening the second register?
If so, what happens if you leave the first one open?

Either way, you should file a bug report.

> /Don

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-derek

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