[GNC] Invoice date field starts too narrow

[David H]

Haha, less is more, I don't like/use autosave either just save when I want
to so maybe that's why the manual adjustment works ok for me :-)

Cheers Dave H.

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 09:15, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David H, you have a good memory.  I found <
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796736> which shows the same
> problem with the date.  However, the penultimate comment by John Ralls
> states that when the size is manually set it should stick for subsequent
> use.  I personally have found that it is necessary to also manually click
> on the File > Save button to really make such changes stick.  If there has
> been an auto save somewhere along the line so that it is impossible to do a
> manual save, then it may be lost.  I thought I had filed a bug report for
> that but now I cannot find it.
>
> David Carlson
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:44 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't use any of the business features/invoices either but this is the
>> default behaviour in normal account register windows on Win 10 as well.  I
>> get around it by manually widening all date columns to allow for the drop
>> down arrow when the date is highlighted.  If I double click the header to
>> autosize it the days are dropped off and instead of seeing 15/12/2019
>> (dd/mm/ccyy) and the drop down arrow I get /12/2019. I thought there'd
>> been
>> a bug/enhancement report raised a couple of years back to fix this
>> behaviour but I could be wrong.
>>
>> Cheers Dave H.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 04:11, Adrien Monteleone <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Hmm... I didn’t notice this back when I was using 3.6 but it might have
>> > happened for me as well.
>> >
>> > I’m presently on 3.7 and I’ve since upgraded to Catalina.
>> >
>> > Perhaps try 3.7 on Mojave and see if the problem is resolved. (3.7 was
>> > released in September, and another is on the way at the end of this
>> month)
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Adrien
>> >
>> > > On Dec 14, 2019 w50d348, at 11:13 AM, Axel Essbaum <axel at essbaum.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Manually widening the date field applies only to that invoice, and
>> only
>> > as long as the invoice's tab is open. If I close the invoice's tab and
>> > reopen I get a narrow date fields again.  Creating a new invoice also
>> > results in a narrow date field.  As far as I can tell no adjustment to
>> > field widths is carried forward to subsequent invoices.
>> > >
>> > > Date order has no effect - MDY is also chopped off for me.
>> > >
>> > > I'm on macOS Mojave, GC 3.6 - Build ID: 3.6+(2019-06-29)
>> > >
>> > > - Axel
>> >
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