Glenn & Kevin, I just looked at the other file with Notepad and it looks identical, only the file name is different. This file is named "##.realfile.gnucash.gcm". So I'm not sure which file should be edited, sorry. Maybe someone else can shed a little insight.
Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email ________________________________ From: Gyle McCollam <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2022 9:31 AM To: Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width Glenn, Kevin, Glenn, I followed your instructions and navigated to "C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books", but there wasn't a file "MyBook.gcm". There were 2 files and I used notepad to open "##.gnucash.gcm". When I scrolled through the file, I found a section called [Register 8c83614b6731620734164b18c3b0cf42], that hd the setting below which you had described. date_width=109 num_width=70 reconcile_width=24 balance_width=96 transfer_width=357 debit_width=96 credit_width=96 Hopefully, this will help you Kevin. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on behalf of Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:48 PM To: Kevin T <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] register description field width The register width on Windows are in: C:\Users\#####\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash\books Just find your "book" which will be in the format MyBook.gcm You can change the numbers for date_width, num_width, etc. You actually change everything *but* the description field, which takes up the rest of the available width. It'll look like this: date_width=177 num_width=66 reconcile_width=239 balance_width=140 transfer_width=290 debit_width=116 credit_width=116 On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 9:24 PM Kevin T <[email protected]> wrote: > i have scanned the directories mentioned for entries with 'description' > and 'width'. I can find nothing that is specific to the 'Description' > field in the support files that exist. > > again this is a windows install. > > do know what file, in what directory, with what content, you modified? > > Kevin > > > On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 06:48:33 AM CDT, Glenn Fowler < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > If you want to hardcode the widths of columns, you can do that in user > data. I wanted my books and accounts to all be exactly the same so I did it > this way. > > Depending on your OS, the user data locations are described here: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:11 AM Kevin T via gnucash-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I have found how to make the fonts large enough to read through inspection > of the mailing list history. it is now 14pt. > This is great but now the gnucash window has to be almost, 80% of my > screen width. 70% of that width is due to the width of the description > field. through the mailing lists I have found that double clicking the > vertical bars between the fields will adjust them to the width of the > data. It works for all but the description field. This field behaves as > if there is an extra 200 spaces attached to the end of each entry. Trying > to pull the right hand vertical bar will move the header, temporarily, but > the field width remains the same. > Is there some way to hard code, force, change the width of the description > field? > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
