Price Editor

[Jim Muchow]

Helpfully, the Bugzilla system threw up the following when
I was setting up to create a new bug.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766028

It's not only been seen, but also fixed. Just need to wait
for a newer version.

Thanks again, John


On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Jim Muchow <jamesdmuchow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info, John. I will reproduce and do/send
> the items requested.
>
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:48 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2017, at 3:10 PM, 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? 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.
>>
>>
>> Crashes are bad, but reports on the list tend to get forgotten. Please
>> file a bug[1] and attach the tracefile[2] from a crashed session. If you
>> can manage a stack trace[3] as well they’re really helpful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla
>> [2] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>> [3] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace
>>
>>
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