[GNC] column widths - balance

[David Carlson]

Double clicking the titles is far easier, but the manual should be complete.

David Carlson

On Sun, May 5, 2019, 10:38 AM David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, look at that! It does work now. I’m pretty sure that’s a change. I
> will note that it is still quite picky, getting the correct cursor without
> hitting the scroll bar. And, as you note, moving to the right from the far
> right can be counterintuitive or even impossible. I think I’ll stick with
> double clicking the header.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> > On May 3, 2019, at 7:29 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> > Grabbing the right-hand border of the Balance Column and dragging it
> right or left still works, at least on MacOS. That assumes that one can
> drag right, of course. If the GnuCash window is on the right edge of the
> monitor, as is the case in fullscreen mode, then there's nowhere for the
> pointer to go and one won't be able to expand the balance column.
> >
> > It's perhaps counter-intuitive even for users with space on the desktop
> that dragging the border to the right past the edge of the GnuCash window
> will do anything.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> >> On May 2, 2019, at 7:21 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> When did that change?  in release 2.6.19 you can still adjust the
> balance
> >> by moving the right edge of the title.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:58 PM David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Note that Section 2.3.3 of the Guide includes the following:
> >>>
> >>> Note
> >>>
> >>> In the register windows, you can resize the various columns that
> *GnuCash*
> >>> displays, *but keep in mind that the Description and Balance columns
> >>> behave differently from other columns*.
> >>>
> >>> The *Description* column is designed to expand automatically to fill
> all
> >>> unused horizontal screen space. Therefore you should set the widths of
> all
> >>> your other columns before setting the Description column width.
> >>>
> >>> The *Balance* column must be resized by double-clicking on the column
> >>> heading.
> >>>
> >>> David T.
> >>>
> >>> On May 3, 2019, at 2:07 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Every column except the description can be adjusted by grabbing and
> >>> dragging the right edge with the mouse.  The balance column is a little
> >>> harder to do that way, but the double click method usually makes an
> >>> acceptable width.
> >>> For the Description drag the right edge left until the horizontal
> scrollbar
> >>> disappears.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:09 PM Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Try double clicking on column headers.
> >>>
> >>> - Jeff
> >>>
> >>> On 5/2/2019 12:00 PM, Elmar wrote:
> >>>
> >>> For some reason I can't seem to expand the column width for the
> >>> account balance (e.g. a bank cash money market account, last column in
> >>> the register) - it will only display 5 places in front of the decimal
> >>> point.  Is this a bug?
> >>>
> >>> GC Version: 3.5 Build ID: git 3.5+(2019-03-30) on Linux Mint 19.1 Mate
> >>> desktop.
> >>>
> >>> - Elmar
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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