[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Paul,

I don't use the cut and paste transaction feature. If I want to move a
transaction, I will change the account assignment for that split, which
effectively moves the transaction from one register to another.

I would wonder at the utility of cut and paste in this example. A
transaction contains two entries, each associated with a specific account,
say accounts A & B. If I were to copy the transaction and paste it into
account C, there would be nothing to connect the transaction with account C,
and the transaction would "re-appear" in accounts A & B, but not appear in
account C. This is, in fact the behavior you originally described.

If, instead, you follow my approach, you would open account A, change the
entry for either A or B to account C, and save the transaction. The
transaction would disappear from the account you changed from, and appear in
account C instead. 

Note that if you change A to C while in the register for account A and press
"Enter," GnuCash may complain about removing the anchor split. I have found
that Tabbing through the line will allow you to proceed anyway.

David T.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+sunfish62=yahoo.com at gnucash.org> On
Behalf Of Paul Kinzelman
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 9:32 PM
To: Gnucash Elist <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

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?
> Message-ID:<72F7C2E7-232E-4308-9665-66E8538ECEFD at lusfiber.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=utf-8
>
> 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.

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