GnuCash Mac OS X issues: languages, splash screen

[John Ralls]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Kevin Reid wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2011, at 20:57, John Ralls wrote:
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>> Please do file a bug on the language-list problem, and thanks for diagnosing it so well.
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> The effect was sufficiently bizarre that I couldn't complain about it without first figuring out exactly what I was complaining about!
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>> The rest is an enhancement request. You can write one up in bugzilla, but I'm not going to promise that it won't get cancelled in a few months because I haven't made time to do anything about it. Including a patch would certainly improve the odds in  your favor. ;-)
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> I currently have very little free time for new projects, and points 1 and 2 feel like they might involve extensive digging through hairy compatibility layers. (I have no experience with GTK.) But if I happen across one of those mythical round tuits...
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> I've put filing bugs on my todo list for this weekend.
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> In other news, I tried turning the splash screen preference off, and found an entirely different bizarre problem: under those conditions, GnuCash crashes precisely every other launch. The relevant-looking console output:
>  An uncaught exception was raised
>  Error (1007) creating CGSWindow
>  *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Error (1007) creating CGSWindow'
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> Given that the times when it doesn't crash it displays the "couldn't obtain the gnucash file lock" dialog, I suspect that not creating any window at the early startup (neither the lock dialog nor the splash screen) causes something to get into a bad state when it tries to create the next window.
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> Also, hooray for working clipboard in the register window. I didn't see that in the release notes. (It would be nice if there was a major-changes listing from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 for those of us ignoring unstable releases.)
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> Despite these problems, I'd like to mention my appreciation for GnuCash existing; when I decided to look for an open-source accounting program for keeping my records, GnuCash was the one that stood out as feeling like I wasn't going to run into inconvenient limitations later on. (On the other hand, half of the competition wasn't even double-entry! And did things like displaying a *dialog box* for each transaction entry.)
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Please add to your weekend todo list filing a bug for the crashes. Include one of the crash reports you'll find in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter as an attachment.

I've been using Gnucash with the splash screen turned off for several weeks (it's a major PITA in a debugging session) with no ill effects, so whatever it is isn't that obvious.

I'll consolidate the 2.3 changes into a 2.2->2.4 list on the wiki version of the release notes... it can go on my to-do list for this weekend. ;-)

Regards,
John Ralls