[GNC] Cursor Focus on Wrong Tab

[D.]

David, 

Thanks for the reply. Can't believe I forgot version info. GC3.5 Windows 10. 

I just found another piece of this. I reopened gnucash just now, and it opened with the previous window settings. When I clicked the duplicate button in tab H this time, however, I didn't get the same behavior. It all worked fine. Odd! 

So, I backed out and recreated my original steps. First, I open my checking account, and locate a transaction with a split connected to my other account. Next, I highlight the split for that account, and jump to that account. Now, when I click the duplicate button, I get the odd behavior. 

Further experiments yield seemingly random behavior. If I go to a different tab C in the same session, and jump to a new register, tab J, tab B remains the hidden tab to receive focus. If, instead, I restart gnucash and repeat the steps, then tab C is the register with focus-- even if I repeat my steps later in the session from tab B. It's almost as if the first register from which you jump is the special register until restart. 

I did test to see which transaction would be deleted in this scenario; thankfully, it's the one that's in the visible register. 

Your problem might correlate to mine, I believe, if your hidden account were on the blank transaction while you were pressing tab and enter; in that case, the hidden register would commit an empty transaction. Your clicks on other entries in the visible register return thre focus to this register. 

I'll keep digging to see what the edges of this are...


-------- Original Message --------
From: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri Jun 19 19:41:56 EDT 2020
To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Cursor Focus on Wrong Tab

Hi David T.,

I seem to recall your original email but at the time I was unsure if what I
was seeing was the same issue and it seems to have gone away anyway, but
maybe it is the same thing :-)

My issue was that I was seeing the odd blank transaction in my savings
account register, coincidentally the register that is always next to the
accounts tab.  Additionally I used to have an issue with duplicating
transactions where the transaction was duplicated ok with today's date but
it seemed to be locked and I couldn't just tab across to update the
amount.  I probably tried both tabbing and hitting enter - perhaps that
created the blank transaction, who knows. I used to have to click on a
different transaction and then come back to the duplicate transaction to
update it for some reason so I was wondering if this was connected to the
blank transaction in some way.  Howsomever these little annoyances seem to
have gone away.  I'm pretty quick to update as soon as a new version comes
out and am currently running the latest test version (3.905) on Win 10, Win
7, MacOS Catalina.  I vaguely recall seeing a blank transaction as recently
as a couple of weeks ago which would have been on version 3.10 when I
opened gnucash on a pc I hadn't used for awhile.

I'm using Gnucash on multiple pc's - Win 7, Win 10, MacOS Catalina (x2),
Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and using dropbox to synchronise the file between
platforms.  My workflow consists of generally having 6 registers open in
addition to the accounts tab and I usually update a single register at a
time from right to left and normally always scroll down after updating each
register so the date in the blank transaction is highlighted when I tab to
the next register if it matters :-)

As I said I haven't seen one of these blank transactions for a while so
they may have gone away altogether.

What version of gnucash are you using and what os ?

Cheers David H.


On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 01:32, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I swear I reported troubles with this a long time ago, and I could have
> sworn I added a bug about it. My recollection was that I was the only
> person who could duplicate the issue, and so it never went anywhere
> further. However, I find no evidence on Bugzilla or in the lists. Alas.
> My search skills are clearly lacking.
>
> The issue is this: when I am in Tab "H" and duplicate a transaction by
> clicking the toolbar Duplicate button, once I have concluded the process
> by selecting a new date and pressing Enter, my cursor appears to be in
> tab "H", but is actually on Tab "B" (which is the first register
> account, after the COA). If I attempt to edit the transaction at this
> point, the transaction that receives input is NOT the visible
> transaction in tab H, but rather the hidden transaction on tab B.
>
> In the attached image, "Base Salary" is the aforementioned tab H, in
> which I have just created a new transaction by clicking the Duplicate
> button, choosing today's date and pressing Enter, which has created the
> 06/19/2020 transaction that is visible on screen.
>
> If you look down where the big arrow is pointing, however, you will see
> "66.59" clearly displayed. "66.59" is actually the value of a
> transaction in ****the Checking register****. If I start typing, the
> transaction that receives input *is in the Checking register and NOT the
> visible transaction in the Base Salary register.* I have to remember to
> use the mouse to actively click in the on screen transaction in order to
> "select" the transaction I just created on the currently-visible
> register and which appears to currently have focus.
>
> To say this is confusing is an understatement--and it only gets worse if
> I start typing, fail to see any change, and then remember to click the
> current register. Now, the visible register gets focus--and the hidden
> register (which has changes I unwittingly have made) gets a commit.
> Obviously, this can have significant negative effects: the transaction I
> blindly edited has changed and been saved. Maybe that transaction is now
> unreconciled. Maybe I put gibberish into the description. Maybe I put
> gibberish into the transfer account, and GnuCash will send me a
> mysterious message that the account doesn't exist, would I like to
> create it. Maybe I have changed the amount on that transaction.
>
> I hope that this email provides enough information that others can now
> see the problem that I have seen for a long time; if others can
> duplicate this, I'll enter a bug report.
>
> David T.
>
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