[GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

[Lionel Élie Mamane]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

>> You don't need the exchange-rate dialog because those are already
>> represented in the stock-account view (in expanded mode).

> I now discover that this indeed true, but only very partially so,
> and in a way that is not very discoverable. Not sure it is
> documented at all.

> In a stock account register, in expanded mode, when *adding* a split
> to a a currency account, the "shares" and "price" column are
> active. (...) the "shares" column is the amount in currency of the
> currency account.

> However, as soon as one leaves the line of that split (even without
> saving the transaction), the "shares" and "price" columns are
> displayed as BLANK and are locked; one cannot anymore enter any value
> in them.

I filed this inconsistent behaviour as
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798367