[GNC] Cut & Paste transaction problem

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 30, 2021, at 5:25 AM, Robert Stocker <kneadtoknow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm running GnuCash version 4.5 (build ID: Flathub 4.5) on Ubuntu 20.10.
> 
> I experienced this problem: After entering a transaction in the wrong
> register, I used the Transaction > Cut transaction command, went to the
> correct register, and used Transaction > Paste transaction. There was an
> immediately visible problem. While some fields came across intact, several
> of them were clearly out of order or seemingly random data. As it happens,
> the first time I noticed this was on a split transaction with 4 or 5
> splits, and the data was well and truly mangled beyond recognition. Since,
> I have verified this with both split and single-line (non-split)
> transactions in credit card registers, but have not tried every type of
> account register.
> 
> For the time being, I recommend using Transaction > Copy transaction
> followed by Transaction > Paste transaction (a combination which seems to
> work correctly) and then delete the unwanted original. Because Copy then
> Paste seems to work, my suspicion is that the bug is in the "Cut" portion
> of the code.
> 
> I have not experienced this problem before, and have cut & pasted
> transactions in this manner plenty of times.

First guess is that cut is destroying the transaction so that the pointer on the clipboard isn't valid any more. Some of it has been reallocated to something else so it's garbage when paste goes to use it.

Regards,
John Ralls