[GNC] crashing trying to do a simple split

[Adrien Monteleone]

I just switched from my usual Transaction Journal to Basic. (I always have Double Line mode on)

I was able to enter a date, NUM, and description, then I clicked in the amount box (skipping over the ’transfer’ field) and entered an amount. I then hit the split *button* and assigned the second split to an account and committed the transaction. (first split defaulted to the current account)

So you *can* enter an amount here as you found out.

But I wasn’t able to trigger a crash like the OP, though I am using MacOS Mojave and not Win10. (also with 3.6, so 3.5< behavior might be different)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 1, 2019, at 7:43 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I did have both the Autosplit ledger and the Double Line options selected
> however the sequence of operations for creating a transaction is much the
> same with the Basic Ledger selected along with Double-line mode. You still
> can't enter an amount before you open the line for the first split which
> opens with the account selected to the account associated with the current
> register at least on the Linux box.
> 
> I just did the same thing in V3.5 on my wife's Windows 10 box and I seem to
> be getting a different behavior from V3.6 on  the Linux box. Hitting Enter
> after entering the date and description didn't open up a new line and I was
> able to enter the amount at the first line and it created the second splt to
> Imbalance by default.  It may be that I had the register open on the Linux
> box before changing the options and these didn't get passed through
> automatically. 
> 
> I also currently have the same file open on both boxes after overriding the
> lock which is an interesting situation but both are altering the file but
> obviously not reflecting changes to the other unless the file is reloaded.
> I'll check it out a bit more carefully with only one box connected to the
> file at a time.
> 
> David