> On 24 Jul 2019, at 05:38, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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
Thanks, John. I’ve posted a bug report. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ 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.
