[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[john]

David,

OK, so not the marker transaction. I've got only 5 future transactions.

The read line in Vincent's file is because he has read-only after N days set in File>Properties. The transactions above the red line are read-only.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jun 30, 2023, at 17:43, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> Sorry my bad, it's actually Big Sur version 11.7.8 on the iMac, NOT Monterey - memories going !!!  The blank txn is my future credit card payment - happens on the same day each month and I just fill in the amount when I know it.  I have one in each of my 3 card accounts and multiple in the cheque account for the other side of the splits in them.
> 
> I used Vincent's test file that he posted earlier and it seems to do the same thing see below, the register WITHOUT focus when re-opening only displays the blank txn plus 1. He also has multiple blank txns in that register.  Not sure where the red line comes from as I don't see it in my own file and I can't see a preference for it ?
> 
> Thanks David H.
> 
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> On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 09:37, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> David,
>> 
>> Huh. Two possibilities: I have only a few future transactions, not enough to move the blank transaction that far up the screen, and I wonder if that marker transaction (with no debit or credit value) matters.
>> 
>> What macOS version on the iMac?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> > On Jun 30, 2023, at 1:47 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com <mailto:hellvee at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi John,
>> > 
>> > I hope I don't sound ungrateful, as always I really appreciate the work you and the other devs/translators/etc put in on my most used app.
>> > 
>> > Anyway here's a pic of what I'm seeing on all my pc's - haven't fired up Ubuntu for a few days so can't say what happens there. I have standard sort order on, future dated txns after the blank txn so they stand out for me.  As you can see from the pic's different end points.  Looking at it again this morning after a coffee I have noticed that if I close GnuCash with an account register open that particular register exhibits the old behaviour and is scrolled right to the bottom when GnuCash is re-opened. Otherwise I only get the blank txn and 1 future dated txn in all open registers.  Usually I close Gnucash with the focus on the Accounts tab so it seemed like it affected all registers.   Aha, did I hear you say something about lazy tab repainting/refreshing in a previous post - is there a connection ?
>> > 
>> > I've also noticed some of my icons disappearing, but only on my slow old 2014 27" iMac - looks a bit weird - like 3 missing, 2 there, more missing and if you move the cursor along the icon row they magically reappear.  Really only an intermittent thing that I've only seen twice on the one Mac.
>> > 
>> > Hope this clarifies things somewhat.
>> > 
>> > Cheers David H.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > <image.png>
>> > 
>> > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 03:55, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > > On Jun 30, 2023, at 8:31 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net <mailto:adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > >> I also think that the registers now display a little differently to what
>> > >> they used to.  In 5.1 any open registers always scroll all the way to the
>> > >> end of the txns when you re-open your GnuCash data file.  In 5.3 they don't
>> > >> seem to quite get all the way to the bottom meaning you have to manually
>> > >> page down in every register you had open to see all your future txns, which
>> > >> in my case is sometimes 15 - 20 as I like to know what's coming up for the
>> > >> next 60 days cash flow wise.
>> > > 
>> > > I don't use future-dated transactions, but if it doesn't even get to the last transaction (and ideally the next empty one) that could get quite annoying.
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > I just checked that and both open registers had the cursor in the blank transaction just like always. There's a  preference to put the blank transaction before future transactions. Even with that set I see all the ones I have displayed below the blank transaction, but I can imagine that if you have more than will fit in the window then GnuCash will scroll so that the blank transaction is at the top of the window and some of those future transactions aren't visible. I think that's correct behavior: Ready to perform input with the input location visible.
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
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