[GNC] Change account in Transfer column - how?

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Chris,

The behaviour of the account selection in the transfer column in GC 4.10 on
Linux Mint is as follows:

When you first click on the split of the transaction a down arrow appears at thr
right of the column.

If you click on the down arrow, the list of transaction is displayed and its
window overlays the transfer debit,credit and balance columns and the column
borders are no longer present and there is a scroll bar to the right which you
can use to scroll through the accounts. 

The arrow to the right will now appear as an up arrow and clicking on it will
close the account selection window without making a selection.

At this point, if you click on one of the entries in this window, it will become
the transfer account for the transaction and the account and  selection window
will close and that selection will be shown in the transfer entry.  

I use a dark theme on my desktop and in GnuCash normally and at first glance, it
is very difficult to tell the difference between the account selection pop-up
and the window behind it in that theme.
I'm not sure whether it is more distinguishable in the normal GnuCash default
colour scheme  as if I change the preference the popup still comes up in the
dark theme. I don't know if it is possible in GTK but maybe a border or border
of a different colour or slightly different background colour may be of
assistance to emphasize which window is the popup as it overlays the last 4
columns exactly.

Hope this helps clarifies how the window works. I don't remember any problems
with this when i was using GC4.4. Can you confirm if you get it to work this way
and if my experience is general I will update the help on the window to make it
clearer

David Cousens 

On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 15:41 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:24:52PM +0000, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> >    Chris,
> > 
> >    Yes, you can.  On my GnuCash, if you click on the "^" (actually it
> >    points down) you get the chart of accounts from which you can choose a
> >    different account.  It's worked that way as long as I can remember, but
> >    I will say that I am using windows 11 and GnuCash 4.10.
> > 
> I thought so, it's a bug that I have reported before (27 Nov 2021).
> When I click on the arrow-up or arrow-down nothing happens.
> 
> My original problem (in November 2021) was that I didn't get the list
> of accounts to select from when entering a new tranaction:-
> 
>     I've probably doing something silly somewhere but I can't spot what it
>     is at the moment.
> 
>     While entering transactions into GnuCash today it sometimes offers no
>     account in the 'Transfer' column so anything I do ends up in an
>     'Imbalance' account.
> 
>     The up arrow and down arrow do nothing when it's in this state.
> 
>     The issue comes and goes and I can't see any pattern to it, I've never
>     seen this problem before though.
> 
>     I'm running GnuCash version 4.4 on xubuntu Linux version 21.10.
> 
> 
> 
> What I am seeing now is essentially the same problem, the drop-down
> list (or up) of accounts doesn't appear.
> 
>