Price Editor

[Jim Muchow]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 November 2017 at 21:12, Jim Muchow <jamesdmuchow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know that the stock quotes feature is having issues, so I decided
>> that since I don't have so many and I don't need any more than
>> Friday's prices, to try to enter stock/fund prices manually.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to work either; well, it has issues. Let me explain.
>
> I always do this by first clicking on the most recent price for a fund
> then clicking Add and entering the data in the box that pops up.

It's still a workaround; just different than that I described. I'm fine with
workarounds, but they're just that, workarounds as opposed to operations
that behave well.

> I have not had any of the problems you describe.

Did you try them? I didn't have these problems either (or didn't know
I had them) until I tried to manually set stock/fund prices. Perhaps it's
version specific. Ubuntu tends to be somewhat behind.

> That is using 2.6.15 on
> Ubuntu (17.04).  By the way there is no Ubuntu 16.06.

OK, 16.04.03.

>
> Colin
>
>>
>> I start up gnucash and then using the pulldown, bring up the Price
>> Editor window. The first oddity comes when I hit the Add button;
>> the following is displayed on the terminal window I used to start up
>> gnucash:
>>
>> sys:1: GtkWarning: gtk_list_store_get_path: assertion 'iter->stamp ==
>> GTK_LIST_STORE (tree_model)->stamp' failed
>>
>> Nothing "bad" happens other than this warning line, so I continue.
>>
>> In the Price Editor window, I modify the various items to point to
>> a fund that I want to update and do so. When I use the Apply button,
>> the changes are taken. If I then hit the Cancel, I can escape without
>> crashing. This is not the case, if I hit the Apply button. A few seconds
>> go by and then I get a segfault and the program exits. Curiously,
>> the program crashes the same way if I try to edit or re-enter a price
>> for a date already entered (although if I Remove it first, it works).
>>
>> Anyway, as long as I continue to enter a price, hit Apply, and then
>> Cancel. I can make this work. The gnucash app sent some debug
>> and crash info off to Ubuntu after one crash.
>>
>> I am running Xubuntu 16.06 and Gnucash 2.6.12
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