Changing the right-most column width

[Dave H]

I'd be happy with that and there have been suggestions to that effect over
the years as the automatic resizing of the Description column was never
very intuitive :-)

Cheers Dave H.

On 1 December 2016 at 08:09, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Oh, I missed that.  That sounds like a bug.
>
> When you let go of the mouse, it's the BALANCE column that should get
> resized, and the horizontal scrollbar should appear.  Then you can reduce
> the description column.
>
> I wonder if we should just turn off the desc-column auto-fill?
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, November 30, 2016 5:02 pm, Dave H wrote:
> > As does double clicking the Description column header, but it still
> > doesn't
> > give you a wider Balance column which was the original question ???
> >
> > Cheers Dave H.
> >
> > On 1 December 2016 at 07:52, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, but that's the key.  Once the horizontal scroll bar appears you can
> >> finally REDUCE the size of the description column by dragging it's right
> >> size to the left!
> >>
> >> -derek
> >>
> >> On Wed, November 30, 2016 4:39 pm, Dave H wrote:
> >> > Ah yes I think I see the issue now that I've tried dragging it out a
> >> few
> >> > inches - my balances are only ever in the tens of thousands so I've
> >> never
> >> > needed to expand it that far :-(
> >> >
> >> > It seems you can only expand the Balance column so far and after you
> >> let
> >> > go
> >> > the mouse button the Description shoots out and expand to fill all the
> >> > additional space you've dragged out to and the horizontal scroll bar
> >> > appears.
> >> >
> >> > I don't mind the UI - maybe I've gotten used to it after a few years
> >> of
> >> > using it.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers Dave H.
> >> >
> >> > On 1 December 2016 at 03:53, Dean Gibson <gnucash.stuff at mailpen.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Yep, done that MANY TIMES (and just now verified again w/ your
> >> >> instructions).  Drag the right border (the "vertical double lines")
> >> to
> >> >> the
> >> >> right, five INCHES past the right window border of GnuCash.  When the
> >> >> mouse
> >> >> button is released, the only column width that changes is the
> >> >> description.
> >> >>
> >> >> Even if that were to work, it's a terrible UI.  And then, after all
> >> that
> >> >> fun, you have to do it again for the next transaction window.
> >> >>
> >> >> On 2016-11-30 01:50, Dave H wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I don't have an issue on Windows 7, 8 or 10 and 2.6.14 making the
> >> >>> Balance column wider that double clicking the column header gives
> >> me,
> >> >>> although there's a bit of a trick to it I guess.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I have GnuCash setup so it's not quite full screen - about 2-3 cm's
> >> of
> >> >>> screen either side of the GnuCash window on a 23 inch monitor. Then
> >> I
> >> >>> very carefully move the cursor to the right hand side of the Balance
> >> >>> column until it changes shape into the vertical double lines with
> >> the
> >> >>> horizontal double ended arrow across them - this sometimes takes a
> >> bit
> >> >>> of trial and error.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Once it's changed shape I then left click and hold and drag to
> >> beyond
> >> >>> the right hand edge of the GnuCash window, which is why you need a
> >> bit
> >> >>> of screen space to the right of the GnuCash window.  Then I let go
> >> of
> >> >>> the mouse button and double click in the Description column header
> >> to
> >> >>> size it back down a bit which pulls back the Balance column to be
> >> >>> completely within the gnucash window.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hope this helps,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Cheers Dave H.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
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