[GNC] Unable to set start and end date in Income Statement report

[Chris Good]

Message: 11
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 16:47:06 -0700
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Unable to set start and end date in Income
	Statement report
Message-ID: <C9331984-D9F5-49D8-94F3-F9D717BAA953 at ceridwen.us>
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> On Jun 1, 2020, at 2:01 PM, Michael or Penny Novack
<stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Yes, I have already tried that. Clicking the dot in the middle does
nothing. 
> 
> Try again (you are going to  laugh at yourself when you get this)
> 
> SOMETIMES this sort of "button" is what is known as "radio", two states,
on or off, and you click on it to switch between state.
> 
> BUT also sometimes there are paired buttons, one of which must be on 
> while the other is off. That is the case here. You get to change which 
> one is "on" by clicking whichever is "off" << that turns it on and its 
> partner off >>

You got it backwards. A radio button [1] is one of a group of buttons
exactly one of which must be selected. A toggle button is called a checkbox
[2]. I used w3schools.com references because they have nice demo code built
in; the actual controls used in GnuCash are GtkRadioButton [3] and
GtkCheckButton [4].


Regards,
John Ralls


[1] https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_type_radio.asp
[2] https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_type_checkbox.asp
[3] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkRadioButton.html
[4] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkCheckButton.html

Hi,

I don't know what version you are using but I seem to remember there was a
recent bug that this sounds like.
You might like to try upgrading to a more recent version.

Regards, Chris Good