[GNC] Locking the side bar items

[R Losey]

Me, too... I keep the main checking register tab open, along with our
commonly-used credit cards. I actually didn't know one could have separate
windows.

The OP said that under certain circumstances, he would lose "everything"
and have to re-create the Chart of Accounts???? That sounds pretty horrific.


On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 8:53 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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