[GNC] keyboard shortcut - how to implement for open/close splits?

[George Riner]

Stan, Thanks for your understanding.

I edited the following line in accelerator-map

; (gtk_accel_path 
"<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/SplitTransactionAction" "")

to read

(gtk_accel_path 
"<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/SplitTransactionAction" 
"<ctrl><alt>s")

and then restarted GnuCash.

outcome: I go to a transaction in the register that has "-- Split 
Transaction --" showing, press <ctrl><alt>s and nothing happens. I also 
notice, as you report, that the accelerator-map file has been re-written 
with my edits removed. Odd, kinda, that a file that you'd think GnuCash 
would *read* to get configurations for things, is instead *written* to 
remove all accelerator-mapping.

:George


On 9/12/2023 11:32 AM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2023-09-12 10:42, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 12 Sep 2023, at 18:17, George Riner <georgeriner at mycogeo.com> wrote:
>>> I really wish there was a keyboard shortcut to open/close the Splits on the transaction I'm in.
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts
>>
>> I use a Mac, so the file I’ve edited is
>> ~/Library/Application Settings/Gnucash/acclerator-map;
>>
>> and the necessary lines are:
>>
>> (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/0" "<Primary>1")
>> (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/1" "<Primary>2")
>> (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/ViewStyleRadioAction/2" "<Primary>3")
>>
>> which opens the Basic Ledger view with Cmd-1, AutoSplit Ledger with Cmd-2 and Transaction Journal with Cmd-3.
> 1. I think those are to change the view of the entire register. If I
> understood George's query correctly, the was asking for a key to
> effectively press the Split button and show the splits for the current
> transaction. In any case, I'd very much like to know how to do that.
>
> 2. Where do we find the list of items to go in the first set of double
> quotes? Neither <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts> nor
> the two files it references have that information.
>
> 3. The lines you gave don't seem top do anything in my accelerator file
> (which I've attached). Here are details.
>
> I'm in Windows 10, with GC 4.14. I found the accelerator-map file in
> %APPDATA%\GnuCash, and, while GC was not running, added your three lines
> at the bottom. However, they don't seem to have any effect. I know that
> for Windows users <Primary> means the Ctrl key, because <Primary>o is
> bound to File Open, and when I try Ctrl+o the File Open dialog does
> indeed pop up. But Ctrl+0, Ctrl+1, and Ctrl+2 don't seem to do anything.
>
> Even worse, when GC closes it rewrites the accelerator-map file
> _without_ those four lines I added.
>
> Do user-configured accelerator keys just not work in Windows, or am I
> doing something wrong?
>
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com/
>
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