[GNC] Reconcile also opens Interest Payment box?

[Adrien Monteleone]

For consistency, that very wide button should probably either be changed 
to a checkbox, then moved or copied to the Account Edit page as a 
per-account preference. (it could remain in the dialog for 
discoverability I suppose, which is what I mean by 'copied') One could 
change it in either place, but ideally, it should be in one place.

I'm not sure a global preference (especially one that is ignored) is 
necessary if each account can be set separately.

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/10/20 5:16 PM, lj wrote:
> I figured it out. Duh.
> 
> There is a button on the Reconcile dialog that says "Enter Interest 
> Payment". In addition to letting you enter an interest payment, clicking 
> that button sets a per-account flag to always prompt for an interest 
> payment when you reconcile.
> 
> On the Interest Payment dialog, there is a button "No Auto Interest 
> Payments for this Account". (It's very wide, and I didn't realize it was 
> a button.) That cancels the dialog, and also clears the per-account flag 
> so GnuCash will no longer prompt for interest payment when you reconcile.
> 
> And the global preference Register, Reconciling, Automatic interest 
> transfer? It does NOTHING at all. It sets a preference flag which is 
> never used. It's supposed to be the default for accounts without the 
> auto-interest-payment flag, but it doesn't work. Note that in 
> libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp, the function 
> xaccAccountGetAutoInterestXfer() ignores its default_value argument.