Flickering in reports

[Edward Doolittle]

Thank you so much for trying this out, Greg. It looks like we might have to
gather more data before the problem can be diagnosed sensibly. I'll see if
I can trigger the problem with a multicolumn report.

On 16 January 2017 at 21:46, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Win 7-64, 2.6.15)
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> No flickering for whatever the default width is.  Also tried the width
> Edward mentioned.  Since that didn't take up the full width of my screen, I
> tried a larger width value to make it go across the entire screen.  Still
> no flickering.
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> Kind regards,
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> Greg Feneis
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>  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:57 AM, <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > What width did you use for the graph?
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> > *From: *Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com>
> > *Sent: *January 15, 2017 8:29 PM
> > *To: *gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > *Subject: *Re: Flickering in reports
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> > Win 7-64, GnuCash 2.6.15 this time
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> > I just tried Edward's recipe again on 2.6.15, and still no flickering.
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> > Kind regards,
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> > Greg Feneis
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> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > ​Win 7-64, GnuCash​ 2.6.14
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> > > I tried Edward's recipe and couldn't get the flickering    (#FOMO)
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> > > I'll try upping to the latest and see if I can have flickering too
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> > > Kind regards,
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> > > Greg Feneis
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> > >  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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> > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Ingrid Friberg <ikf at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > >> I was definitely able to cause the problem your way. I think the
> problem
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> > >> for me is that since my reports are multicolumn,  I can't edit the
> > specific
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> > >> options to change the total width to something that works.
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> > >> How does one file a bug report?
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> > >>
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> > >> ---- Edward Doolittle wrote ----
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> > >> I noticed a similar problem with a wide graph in one of my reports. I
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> > >> worked around the problem by narrowing the graph. GnuCash 2.6.15 on
> > Windows
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> > >> 10.
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> > >> The problem is easily reproducible for me by the following recipe:
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> > >> Reports -> Assets & Liabilities -> Net Worth Linechart
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> > >> then Options -> Display -> set Plot Width to 1265 -> Apply
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> > >> (the exact number may be dependent on screen width and/or window
> width,
> > I
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> > >> suppose)
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> > >> The flickering eventually stops, I've found, but I have no idea why.
> Now
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> > >> that I've tried it a few times in a row, the flickering stops more
> > quickly.
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> > >> So I can suggest trying to close and reopen your reports a few times
> and
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> > >> then waiting, as a work around for your multicolumn reports.
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> > >> Shall we file a bug report?
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> > >> E
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> > >> On 14 January 2017 at 17:18, Ingrid Friberg <ikf at hotmail.com<mailto:
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> > >> ikf at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> > >> I've been using gnucash for a couple of years and this is my first
> >
> > >> problem.  The newest version of the software has damaged my
> multicolumn
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> > >> reports so that I cannot see them. They flicker endlessly.  I can't
> > refresh
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> > >> or see any of the information about the reports either. Some of the
> > single
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> > >> reports do this as well, but it stops quickly.  Does anyone else have
> > the
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> > >> same problem and any ideas about how to fix it? Thanks.  Ingrid
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Edward Doolittle
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