[GNC] Default View: Menu entry and tooltip

[Adrien Monteleone]

Fred,

Thank you very much for that detailed explanation.

Not sure if this is an issue with 3.x or MacOS, or both.

I’m not seeing the menu tooltips at all.

The reason I inquired about making none of the transaction cells ‘active’ is because like you, when I open a register, the date field of a new blank transaction is automatically selected. The Statusbar tip text shows the date written out. If I change to the Description field, it now says “Enter a description of the transaction” and so on depending on the cell selected. That help text for the selected cell, never changes to reflect the help text for whatever menu entry I’m hovering on.

I’ll file a bug.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 12, 2020 w24d164, at 11:48 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11 June 2020 at 16:58, Adrien Monteleone said:
> 
>> Thanks Fred,
>> 
>> So you are viewing a register while seeing this? (presumably, since that
>> is the only way I’ve found to have that option appear in the View menu)
> 
> Given that it applies only to the current register, that's what I would 
> expect.
> 
>> Is any field in a transaction ‘active’?
> 
> I'm not sure what is meant by this.
> 
> I open a register (any register). The  date of the blank txn at the 
> bottom of the register window is highlighted.
> 
> I click on "View" and then hover the mouse cursor on "Double Line" in the 
> "View" dropdown. The text I quoted appears in what I gather is called the 
> "status" bar, at the bottom of the application window. The same place 
> that shows the contents of the field the cursor is in: the date, in this 
> case, or (say) the Transfer field, if I click on that in some random txn. 
> Also where the text ("tooltip"?) for other entries in the "View" dropdown 
> shows up.
> 
> When I then clicked on "Double line" just now, the txns all expanded to 
> two-line view, and the cursor jumped to the "Description" field of the 
> txn at the top of the account window. From here if I click on "View" 
> again, I see "Double Line" checked. If I click on it again the txns go 
> back to single-line but the cursor stays on the same txn (rather than 
> going back to the blank one).
> 
> If instead I click on some random txn, the cursor appears to stay in the 
> chosen part of the chosen txn regardless of switching between double and 
> single line.
> 
> This is all on 2.6.21. 
> 
> Does this help?
> 
>> If not, how you do make it so that none are ‘active’?
> 
> I have no idea how to do that. I have no idea why I might want to.