[GNC] register description field width

[Glenn Fowler]

The book name is whatever you named it, it won't actually be "MyBook.gcm"

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 9:31 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:

> 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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