At Thu, 7 Dec 2023 15:09:13 -0600 adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net wrote:
>
> On 12/7/23 2:07 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> >
> >
> > At Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:46:19 -0600 adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The Description column always fills the remaining width of the window.
> >>
> >> You adjust the other columns to your liking, then reduce the window
> >> width to shrink the Description column. Otherwise, you can after setting
> >> the other columns, drag the right handle of the Description column to
> >> the left and let it bounce back to fill the remaining space.
> >
> > So how do a make the columns to the right of the Description column wider? Do
> > I drag them off the window? This actually makes no sense.
>
> Yes, that's how you do it, sort of. And if you try, it does make sense
> as you see it happen.
>
> For example, to widen the Account column, drag its right border to the
> right. (up in the header) The column will widen accordingly, and you
> will get a left-right scroll bar at the bottom of the window. Resize all
> columns *other than* the description to your liking, *first*.
>
> Then, to remove the scroll bar and size the Description to take up the
> remaining space of the window, (Window Width - Sum of all *other* Column
> Widths) drag its right-border to the left and let it snap back into
> place. (hence it auto-sizes)
>
> > OK, I am totally confused. How do I make a column to the right of the
> > Description wider *without* draging the right handle of the Description column
> > to the left?
>
> See above.
>
> I don't want to *shrink* the columns to the right of the
> > Description, I want to make one of them wider. How does one do that without
> > shrinking the Description column? Where does the space come from? How does one
> > add space?
>
> You are 'adding width' as you resize the other columns which triggers a
> scroll bar. You then snap the Description column back and the scroll bar
> goes away.
>
> What is happening is that there is some total window width W, which
> > is the sum of widths of all of the columns (plus the margin space). If one
> > wants to make some column Cx wider, some other collumn Cy needs to shrink, but
> > this is impossible if the only column that is "shrinkable" (Cy) is the
> > Description column. I can make columns to the *left* of the Description wider
> > or narrower, but not the columns to the right of the Description. Any attempt
> > to make any of them wider ends up making them all narrower until eventually
> > one (or more) of them end up with a width of 0. As far as I am concerned, this
> > is a bug (and a serious one at that). This makes no sense.
>
> Yes it does - try it and stop thinking about it.
>
> >
> > I have the source code and will go hunting...
>
> No need for that rabbit hole. Just follow the above. Note, this behavior
> is described in the Help manual and as Stan noted, there is also an FAQ
> entry about it. If you really want to see the code, go right ahead, but
> you're just going to discover what I've described above and is already
> documented behavior.
All I can say is *no other application* with a resizable column UI that I have
ever used works that way. AFAIK, this is unique to Gnucash... It was totally
unexpected and *unfriendly* behaviour [to me].
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
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