[GNC] register description field width

[Kevin T]

I have found the file in question.I edited the file in question, with vim a text editor, to make all the non description fields the same.  save the file.I start the tool.   If I change anything, window size, or field size of some tab, any tab, the file is overwritten by the tool.  vim notifies me that the file has changed.
I have learned more about the behavior of the tool which makes it understandable at least.  Not preferable, but understandable.
Kevin 

    On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 08:24:57 PM CDT, Kevin T <nevikintx at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
 i have scanned the directories mentioned for entries with 'description' and 'width'.  I can find nothing that is specific to the 'Description' field in the support files that exist.
again this is a windows install.
do know what file, in what directory, with what content, you modified?
Kevin 

    On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 06:48:33 AM CDT, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi,
If you want to hardcode the widths of columns, you can do that in user data. I wanted my books and accounts to all be exactly the same so I did it this way.
Depending on your OS, the user data locations are described here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:11 AM Kevin T via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

I have found how to make the fonts large enough to read through inspection of the mailing list history.  it is now 14pt.
This is great but now the gnucash window has to be almost, 80% of my screen width.  70% of that width is due to the width of the description field.   through the mailing lists I have found that double clicking the vertical bars between the fields will adjust them to the width of the data.  It works for all but the description field.  This field behaves as if there is an extra 200 spaces attached to the end of each entry.  Trying to pull the right hand vertical bar will move the header, temporarily, but the field width remains the same.
Is there some way to hard code, force, change the width of the description field?

Kevin
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