[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

[Paul Kinzelman]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to remember that.
I've been using gnucash for almost a year and I'd never seen it before
tho I don't cut/paste whole transactions very often so I don't know
when it'll come up again. I have done transaction copy/paste
successfully in the past, so it is intermittent.

I don't think it's a focus problem or it would not have deleted the
transaction from the source. I didn't focus in any other app between
the cut and the paste, and the destination did focus when I clicked
on the tab just before doing the paste.

So you're saying that if gnucash doesn't see a paste right after a cut,
it puts the transaction back where it came from? That makes sense
for it to do that.

But I'm curious, where does gnucash stash the cut transaction?
It doesn't seem to be in the standard clipboard.

Now that you mention it, I have noticed that if I do a simple copy/paste
of text between like Firefox and emacs (not in gnucash) sometimes it
would not work (paste would get previous contents), so I've gotten
into the habit of hitting ^C about 30 times (that many because I'm
pissed that I have to do it more than once :-) whenever I want to copy.
I've seen that behavior intermittently on W10 on a previous laptop and
now on this one too. Maybe it's a W10 issue.


On 7/1/2019 9:35 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 16:23:26 -0500
> From: Adrien Monteleone<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> To: Users Gnucash<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?
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> Might indeed be a stray cosmic ray, or temporarily insane electrons, but this stood out for me:
>
>> Earlier when I saw the problem, the cut did work,
>> the transaction vanished from the source account, but
>> when I pasted it into the destination account, it magically appeared again
>> in the source account but not the destination account.
> My first suspicion would be a mouse/window focus problem. It did paste it, but not in the window you were expecting it to. Since you can paste into emacs, the problem is either intermittent, or somehow limited to GnuCash.
>
> I do know GnuCash on MacOS at least, has a focus problem where you must click the title bar sometimes to get it to accept input even though the window ?appears? to be in focus. If that?s your OS, do a search for some threads in the last 6-8 months and something might pop up. I think though this isn?t a GnuCash bug, but a GTK+ bug. (if I recall correctly.)
>
> Maybe do a trial with clicking the GnuCash title bar first, then pasting, and see which window it gets pasted into.