[GNC] Locking the side bar items

[Adrien Monteleone]

I'm curious how separate windows for registers is advantageous over 
separate tabs. I routinely keep several registers open as well as 
reports - all in tabs, and can easily switch between them. I've never 
found a point where I'd like, or need, to see two tabs (and thus 
windows) simultaneously.

That's just a curiosity.

I can see that if you need, or prefer working with separate windows, 
however, there should be a way to get everything to re-open on a 
subsequent launch.

Regards,
Adrien

On 4/11/23 5:23 PM, Paul Kroitor wrote:
> Perhaps the OP's issue is variation of a slightly different issue that I've
> asked about in the past.
> 
> I have Gnucash set so the tabs are across the top, and reports open as
> additional tabs in the main window. I can open and configure many reports
> during a session, and these reports survive a close and re-open. Thus I
> configure each set of books to have all my favourite reports and graphs
> available immediately upon opening the file.
> 
> BUT I have my registers set to open in separate windows (so I can work in
> more than one at a time). The upshot is that if I close all the register
> windows first, and then the main window (the one with the Chart of Accounts,
> reports, graphs, etc), it all works as intended.
> 
> However, if one of the register windows is still open somewhere -- hidden
> behind another app, perhaps -- when I close the main window, everything is
> catastrophically lost. Reopening the file opens only the straggling register
> window and I have to
> re-establish a Chart of Accounts tab, and then labouriously reconstruct all
> the reports and graphs I like.
> 
> I've been meaning to code a warning upon close if the main window (the
> window including the Chart of Accounts tab) is ever closed when other
> floating windows are still open, as this presumably would never happen on
> purpose -- perhaps I will get to it one of these months as it drives me
> crazy.