Price Editor

[Colin Law]

On 4 November 2017 at 22:10, Jim Muchow <jamesdmuchow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

It wasn't clear to me *exactly* what you had done so I was just saying
what I do. From my point of view it is not a workaround as that is how
I have always done it. Which is not to say that there is not a bug
there that you have found by doing it a different way.

Colin

> 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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