[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Paul,

Sorry for any time wasted or misdirection on my part. I re-read your original and subsequent posts and realized you were moving a transaction within the same book.

I’ve only ever heard this feature used in reference to moving/copying transactions between two open files, so I errantly presumed that was the case here, which is why I considered a window/mouse focus issue as in that case, the cut and paste would be in separate windows.

As noted in my other recent reply, I tested a cut/paste within the same book between two different registers and all went well, regardless of if I was cutting the debit or credit split.

So, until or unless you could make it repeat the issue intentionally and repeatedly with the same steps, I’m afraid this one will have to be offered up to the digital gods to sort out.

Finally, don’t discount a key not functioning. I’ve run myself ragged trying to figure out keyboard shortcuts not working properly (especially with cmd/ctrl/alt keys) only to discover that after removing the key caps, I saw some gunk underneath that was preventing the keypress from registering, though I was banging the heck out of it. A little cleaning with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol, and... "magic!”  You can bring up an onscreen keyboard viewer that will highlight a key as you press it. Using that, you might see if the CTRL key is sticking or missing. (and test the other CTRL key as well)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 2, 2019, at 11:02 AM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>