[GNC] register description field width

[Gyle McCollam]

Glenn & Kevin,

I just looked at the other file with Notepad and it looks identical, only the file name is different.  This file is named "##.realfile.gnucash.gcm".  So I'm not sure which file should be edited, sorry.  Maybe someone else can shed a little insight.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2022 9:31 AM
To: Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width

Glenn, Kevin,
Glenn, I followed your instructions and navigated to "C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books", but there wasn't a file "MyBook.gcm".  There were 2 files and I used notepad to open "##.gnucash.gcm".  When I scrolled through the file, I found a section called [Register 8c83614b6731620734164b18c3b0cf42], that hd the setting below which you had described.
date_width=109
num_width=70
reconcile_width=24
balance_width=96
transfer_width=357
debit_width=96
credit_width=96

Hopefully, this will help you Kevin.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:48 PM
To: Kevin T <nevikintx at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width

The register width on Windows are in:

C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books

Just find your "book" which will be in the format MyBook.gcm

You can change the numbers for date_width, num_width, etc. You actually
change everything *but* the description field, which takes up the rest of
the available width.

It'll look like this:
date_width=177
num_width=66
reconcile_width=239
balance_width=140
transfer_width=290
debit_width=116
credit_width=116

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 9:24 PM 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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