Well, look at that! It does work now. I’m pretty sure that’s a change. I will note that it is still quite picky, getting the correct cursor without hitting the scroll bar. And, as you note, moving to the right from the far right can be counterintuitive or even impossible. I think I’ll stick with double clicking the header.
Cheers, David > On May 3, 2019, at 7:29 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > Grabbing the right-hand border of the Balance Column and dragging it right or > left still works, at least on MacOS. That assumes that one can drag right, of > course. If the GnuCash window is on the right edge of the monitor, as is the > case in fullscreen mode, then there's nowhere for the pointer to go and one > won't be able to expand the balance column. > > It's perhaps counter-intuitive even for users with space on the desktop that > dragging the border to the right past the edge of the GnuCash window will do > anything. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On May 2, 2019, at 7:21 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> When did that change? in release 2.6.19 you can still adjust the balance >> by moving the right edge of the title. >> >> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:58 PM David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Note that Section 2.3.3 of the Guide includes the following: >>> >>> Note >>> >>> In the register windows, you can resize the various columns that *GnuCash* >>> displays, *but keep in mind that the Description and Balance columns >>> behave differently from other columns*. >>> >>> The *Description* column is designed to expand automatically to fill all >>> unused horizontal screen space. Therefore you should set the widths of all >>> your other columns before setting the Description column width. >>> >>> The *Balance* column must be resized by double-clicking on the column >>> heading. >>> >>> David T. >>> >>> On May 3, 2019, at 2:07 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Every column except the description can be adjusted by grabbing and >>> dragging the right edge with the mouse. The balance column is a little >>> harder to do that way, but the double click method usually makes an >>> acceptable width. >>> For the Description drag the right edge left until the horizontal scrollbar >>> disappears. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:09 PM Jeff Albrecht <je...@rodaw.com> wrote: >>> >>> Try double clicking on column headers. >>> >>> - Jeff >>> >>> On 5/2/2019 12:00 PM, Elmar wrote: >>> >>> For some reason I can't seem to expand the column width for the >>> account balance (e.g. a bank cash money market account, last column in >>> the register) - it will only display 5 places in front of the decimal >>> point. Is this a bug? >>> >>> GC Version: 3.5 Build ID: git 3.5+(2019-03-30) on Linux Mint 19.1 Mate >>> desktop. >>> >>> - Elmar >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> David Carlson >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> David Carlson >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
