Windows 7 x64 problem with account tree expand/collapse GUI

[David Carlson]

On 8/27/2014 11:51 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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

Oops, I forgot about needing to hold down the ctrl key while selecting
accounts.  That is not in the help for that window.  Anyway, I can
select accounts using the ctrl key, but if I use the Select All button,
the colors disappear for the accounts which are selected.

David C