[GNC] Variables in Scheduled transactions

[John Layman]

Posts on this topic lead me to believe that the UI behaves differently
depending upon the platform.  Running on Windows, I've found the only way to
provide a value for a variable is to TAB out of the field.  Typing a value
and pressing ENTER causes the entry to vanish.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee.org at gnucash.org>
On Behalf Of Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19)
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2023 7:37 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Variables in Scheduled transactions


> On 1/7/23 12:23 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) wrote:
>> Update -- 2.6.19 does prompt only once per variable, after all.
>>
>> I thought it did, because, when the transaction fires, the UI for 
>> prompting for an amount and accepting is pretty confusing (to me, 
>> anyway). I entered the amount and clicked the OK button, but was 
>> immediately prompted again for the same variable. By experimentation 
>> I found that I have to press Enter after entering the amount, and 
>> _then_ click OK. (I'm using 2.6.19, so maybe the interface is a 
>> little clearer in later versions.
On 2023-01-07 15:04, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Glad to hear you got it squared away.
> 
> I'm not sure if this has to do with my SX preferences, but I no longer 
> get a pop-up window for variables. There is an entry field in the 
> Since Last Run dialog to enter them. (which I have to Tab out of to 
> commit) That may have been implemented after 2.6.19 though. I haven't 
> used variables in several years to notice when the change happened.

Not quite sure what you're seeing, or whether I see the same thing, but
there is a field in the dialog that pops up when I click Since Last Run.

But to commit that amount, I have to press Enter. When I enter an amount in
that field and press Tab, _another_ field opens in the dialog, lower down,
but the amount I enter there seems to just get thrown away.

I'm not asking for any kind of troubleshooting on this, because I now know
how to commit the values of variables. I'm just responding to let you know
that the value field in Since Last Run dates back at least to 2.6.19, though
some details may differ from the present UI.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
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