[GNC] Disappointing Screen Display on Windows

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Geert,

Thank you. That was the problem. I don't remember setting those preferences!

David

On June 29, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

Op zaterdag 29 juni 2019 09:25:59 CEST schreef D T via gnucash-user:
> Hello,
> 
> I thought I’d follow up on a thread I started a little ways back about
> difficulties moving GnuCash from a Mac to Windows. As may be recalled, I
> was a little flummoxed by which files would need to be brought from the Mac
> to the Windows machine. Thanks to others here, I was able to get everything
> (mostly) working smoothly.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have found that the use of account colors is radically
> different in Windows than in macOS. Specifically, under Windows, only a
> very limited set of screen objects appear to respond to account color
> settings. To be clear, by “account color settings”, I mean the color choice
> a user can make from the account setting window.
> 
> On the Mac, setting an account color changes the color for the entire row of
> an account in the Chart of Accounts (COA). On Windows, it only affects one
> specific column—the “Account Color” column. All other columns remain the
> default.
> 
> Additionally, on a Mac, if an account is opened for viewing, the
> corresponding tab takes the color assigned to it. On Windows, nope.
> 
> It would seem that the Windows implementation is broken with regard to this
> feature, sadly.

Both behaviors are optional.

Do you have them enabled under Edit->Preferences->Account->Account Color ?

Regards,

Geert