Clipboard bug?

[Donald Allen]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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?


Yes.

>
> If so, what happens if you leave the first one open?


Just tried it -- it works correctly.

>
>
> Either way, you should file a bug report.


Will do.

/Don


>
> > /Don
>
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> -derek
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