> On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:15 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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
Sorry, I misunderstood when you were seeing the dialog. It appears to be set "transient for" the splash screen. I think that's right, but it should also block opening the main window until you dismiss it. That wouldn't be mac-only. 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.
