Setting Column Width

[Derek Atkins]

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

[snip]
> One would expect it of Microsoft, but I would hope that gnucash was
> written to a higher standard than that.  If the register has been written
> as one would hope it has, there will be a presentation code  that should
> be amendable independent of any other register functionality ...

The register is actually fairly well abstracted in that way.  There is
definitely no tie-in to the storage in the register.  There is SOME
business logic, but even that is abtracted fairly well such that it made
writing the Invoice ledger screens relatively easy.  (I admit that it
could've been abstracted a little better).

But that's completely separate from the resize issue.  Honestly, I
suspect turning off the column-width auto-fill is as simple as removing
a flag from the register configuration in the code.

> However, I wasn't trying to get into a discussion on software design and
> development principles, merely asking if there are plans to fix it!  :-)

Well, there were plans as part of Chris Shoemaker's Register Rewrite,
but that effort stalled when Chris became otherwise occupied...

> Colin

-derek

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