[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 225, Issue 32

[Kalpesh Patel]

I believe double clicking on the right side divider line of a column to
resize best fit for the largest content in that column is known practice in
PC world since ages (I recall being able to do so since text based Lotus 123
times when mouse navigation was introduced in DOS mode) and behavior is
universal on most, if not all, applications on PC. This also holds true for
bottom row divider in most, if not all, applications on PC (at least on
Windows for sure) where it resizes best fit for the highest content size in
that column. 

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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 22:22:01 -0600
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to fix zero-length register column?
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I could be mistaken, but I'm fairly certain you don't have to 'stumble' 
on that 'trick' or any other as it is a designed feature. It should be
documented in Help or the Guide. There is a section devoted to resizing
columns.

There was some work done on setting widths for all 'similar' registers, but
I think it was reverted due to bugs. I think it is still currently available
for Bills/Invoices, however. (by 'similar' registers, I mean by main GnuCash
type, thus, you could set all 'asset' registers with certain particular
column widths, and those widths could be different for 'liability',
'equity', 'income' or 'expense' registers)

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/12/21 6:06 PM, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> Thanks, David. Somehow I never stumbled across the double-click trick.
> 
> It resizes to the smaller of the header text or the column contents, 
> so it still makes "Tot Withdrawal" unnecessarily wide, and for some 
> reason on Description it pushes the right-most parts out of the 
> window, introducing a horizontal scroll bar. I think it must assume 
> the window is full screen instead of using the actual window size. But 
> it reduces it to only a couple of columns I need to manually resize, 
> so it's an improvement.
> 
> Now if only it would set all registers at once (at least as an option) 
> and not change them after I set them. Hey, I can dream.
> 
> Ron