[GNC] Recent list in file menu
David H
hellvee at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 18:32:43 EST 2021
Thanks John, that made all the difference, now to clean out all the history
files I bodged up to test this :-)
Cheers David H.
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 05:02, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> And that turns out to be necessary: Unless you tell defaults -int it
> writes a string and GSettings decides that's the wrong type and won't use
> it.
>
> Incidentally, someone wondered how to do this on other OSes. In Linux
> you'd just use the DConf tool to create the key
> /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles. In Windows you must use Regedit. Find the
> key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\history and
> add to it a DWord value named maxfiles and set it to whatever value you
> like between 0 and 10.
>
> I've updated
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_have_deleted_a_gnucash_file_from_my_computer._How_can_I_remove_that_file_from_the_File_menu.27s_short_list_.28MRU.29_as_well.3F
> with those instructions.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Jan 18, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you open the plist file with Xcode or bbedit or ... you may see that
> the maxfiles key is of type string, instead of integer. It may look like:
> > <key>/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles</key>
> > <string>6</string>
> >
> > Instead of
> > <key>/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles</key>
> > <integer>6</integer>
> >
> > You can manually change string to integer or do this:
> > defaults delete -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles"
> > defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" -int 6
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 18, 2021, at 2:20 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 17 Jan 2021, at 20:11, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You can easily check the mru details by doing the following...
> >>>
> >>> defaults read -app Gnucash
> >>>
> >>> or
> >>>
> >>> defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
> >>>
> >>> Cheers David H
> >>
> >> Yes, I discovered how to read and write the relevant plist using
> “defaults”, via the man page, and have also inspected it with Xcode.
> >>
> >> Here is the output from the command you suggested:
> >>
> >> => defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file0" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/TestMRU.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file1" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file2" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file3" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryCharity.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file4" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/MDH.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file5" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/A.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file6" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/B.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file7" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash.20200316161155.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file8" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash.20200108210937
> copy.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file9" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/Test_2019-10-26.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" = 6;
> >>
> >> I recently created “TestMRU.gnucash”, the following 4 files are those I
> regularly use, and the final 5 are not currently in use.
> >>
> >> I still get only the 4 most recently opened files in the File menu, so
> if I want to open MDH.gnucash, I have to use File->Open.
> >>
> >> After opening this file, your command yields the following:
> >>
> >> => defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file0" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/MDH.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file1" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/TestMRU.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file2" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file3" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file4" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryCharity.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file5" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/A.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file6" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/B.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file7" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash.20200316161155.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file8" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash.20200108210937
> copy.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/file9" =
> "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/Test_2019-10-26.gnucash";
> >> "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" = 6;
> >>
> >> …which is as expected.
> >>
> >> If there’s another Mac user with more than four files in use, perhaps
> s/he could report on what after the command:
> >>
> >> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6
> >>
> >> (preferably with a before-and-after run of the "defaults read…”
> command).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> PS I noticed that the values associated with the various keys are
> enclosed in double-quotes, and tried
> >>
> >> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” “6”
> >>
> >> but the double-quotes don’t appear in the plist.
> >>
> >>
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