[GNC] Calendar does not pop up

[john]

> On Nov 14, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:11:11 -0800 john wrote:
> 
>> The calendar itself is a GtkCalendar, https://developer-old.gnome.org/gtk3/3.24/GtkCalendar.html, wrapped in gnucash/register/register-gnome/gnucash-date-picker.*  which adds the popup behavior and gnucash/register/register-gnome/datecell-gnome.c. You probably should start by setting a breakpoint in popup_get_height (https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/58d37b75b09e71805bc0bc932866b00e5051bd94/gnucash/register/register-gnome/datecell-gnome.c#L650) to see if it's getting a sane value.
> 
> Thanks for the hints John.  gdb wasn't helpful, so I decided to track
> down GtkCalendar.  It no longer seems available in my distro. Finally
> located https://github.com/debmint/gtkcalendarentry -- but its
> configure.ac fails.  
> 
> I'm suspecting GtkCalendar is being deprecated.  It's not worth any more
> effort on my part... Building gnucash 4.8 was a cakewalk compared to this.

GtkCalendar isn't a separate package, it's part of libgtk. I already gave you a link to the documentation, here's where the sources live for Gtk3, the version of the library that GnuCash uses: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/gtk-3-24/gtk/gtkcalendar.c <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/gtk-3-24/gtk/gtkcalendar.c>, and here it is in the current Gtk4 master: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/master/gtk/gtkcalendar.c <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/master/gtk/gtkcalendar.c>. Not deprecated. It's on your system, GnuCash wouldn't even compile if it wasn't.

But your problem is more likely to be with the popup that wraps GtkCalendar than with GtkCalendar itself.

Regards,
John Ralls