Windows 7 x64 problem with account tree expand/collapse GUI

[David Carlson]

On 8/26/2014 12:41 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 8/26/2014 5:27 AM, Dave H wrote:
>> On 25 August 2014 00:46, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 23, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Carey Garrenton <ctgarrenton at embarqmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks John.
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious to know why the same gtk functions don't exhibit the problem
>>> with Windows Vista or XP?
>>> Heh. If I knew that I might be able to fix the stupid bug. I imagine that
>>> it has something to do with differences in event handling between Win7 and
>>> its predecessors.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Just to make it a bit more interesting for you both I am running 2.6.3 on
>> Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit and do not have the issue described by Carey.  If I
>> move the mouse cursor over one of the triangles it turns black and if I
>> left click on it, it turns white and then rotates, the category expands and
>> the triangle turns black again until I move the mouse cursor off the
>> triangle when it turns white again.
>>
>> No problems either with clicking on it again immediately to collapse the
>> hierarchy one again.
>>
>> Cheers Dave H.
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> I am going to ramble here to see if I trigger any useful thoughts on
> this issue.  Since I do not know what is under the hood in GnuCash, it
> may or may not apply. 
>
>
> On my two installations of version 2.4.13 in Windows 7 Professional 64
> bit in the Accounts window the triangles seem to correctly honor the
> fly-over behavior i.e., they are black while the mouse curser is
> hovering over them, otherwise they are white.  If I left click, I see
> them turn white for an instant before rotating to the other position
> with the black fill, but then turn white again when the mouse curser
> moves away.  The resulting action from both left clicks and right clicks
> is always as expected.  This is identical to Dave H's case. 
>
> I think that I have the default graphic themes for both Windows 7 and
> for GnuCash, but I am not sure, as I play with those features so rarely
> that I don't even remember how to check.  I wonder if the problem only
> appears for certain graphic themes or for certain mouse/pointing device
> drivers? 
>
> Since it sounds like the signal to the program that the mouse curser has
> moved over or away from that object is not working correctly, like
> Carey, I would also look elsewhere outside of the GnuCash program.  One
> of my Windows 7 computers is using a Logitech wireless mouse, the other,
> a Microsoft wireless mouse and a touch-pad. 
> If the GnuCash code uses the fly-over state signal in any place other
> than for setting the state of the object appearance, this may be where
> to look for issues of program behavior.  Am I correct that the mouse
> button click signal is supposed to be completely independent of the
> fly-over signal for these graphic objects?  Could this also be a factor
> in the long-standing problem that appears in the account selection
> section of report configuration where sometimes the selections get reset
> too easily?
>
> I am planning to try version 2.6.3 on one of these machines soon, but I
> need to do a few other things first, so I do not have a date set for that.
>
> David C

I am doing some limited testing of release 2.6.3 in Ubuntu Linux 12.04. 
There, there is no fly-over change to the triangles in the Accounts
window, they are always filled in black.  Also, I am unable to select
accounts in report options windows, at least for the net worth linechart
report.  The accounts are shown in color in this release.  I have not
looked yet to see if this has been reported, but it would be a serious bug.

David C