> On 23 Jul 2019, at 18:55, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is indeed. What the tooltip is trying to say is that you can enter any > single character except a letter or a number or you can enter one of the > listed strings and GnuCash will convert the string to the corresponding > character. "dash" really means "hyphen" (U+002d), but regardless that > conflicts with the hard-coded account names including imbalance, orphaned > gains, and trading accounts. > > We can't change the hard-coded account names without breaking existing books, > which is too bad. Using one of the dash characters (U+2013 or U+2014) would > have been a better design choice as it requires special effort to enter one > from most keyboards. I'm afraid the only solution is to make U+002d an > illegal separator character and to remove "dash" from the interpreted strings. > > The hiding message box is mostly a mac problem, the fix is to make it > "transient for" the preferences window.
I’m not sure what this last sentence means - were you referring to the start-up message that warns of the presence of a hyphen in an account-name that GC has created, e.g. Imbalance-GBP? I can accept that this might be a Mac problem, but what does this have to do with the preferences window - which isn’t in use on start-up, and can’t be accessed until the message is closed? Here is a screenshot taken after I’d deliberately entered an unbalanced transaction, closed GC and then re-opened it. I had to reduce the width of the Accounts Window to see the warning. https://www.dropbox.com/s/glxivc5732xg33n/Screenshot%202019-07-23%2019.10.19.png?dl=0 Regards, Michael > > Regards, > John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
