Am 2023-12-07 22:09, schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
On 12/7/23 2:07 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:46:19 -0600 adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net
wrote:
The Description column always fills the remaining width of the
window.
You adjust the other columns to your liking, then reduce the window
width to shrink the Description column. Otherwise, you can after
setting
the other columns, drag the right handle of the Description column to
the left and let it bounce back to fill the remaining space.
So how do a make the columns to the right of the Description column
wider? Do
I drag them off the window? This actually makes no sense.
Yes, that's how you do it, sort of. And if you try, it does make sense
as you see it happen.
For example, to widen the Account column, drag its right border to the
right. (up in the header) The column will widen accordingly, and you
will get a left-right scroll bar at the bottom of the window. Resize
all columns *other than* the description to your liking, *first*.
Then, to remove the scroll bar and size the Description to take up the
remaining space of the window, (Window Width - Sum of all *other*
Column Widths) drag its right-border to the left and let it snap back
into place. (hence it auto-sizes)
OK, I am totally confused. How do I make a column to the right of the
Description wider *without* draging the right handle of the
Description column
to the left?
See above.
I don't want to *shrink* the columns to the right of the
Description, I want to make one of them wider. How does one do that
without
shrinking the Description column? Where does the space come from? How
does one
add space?
You are 'adding width' as you resize the other columns which triggers a
scroll bar. You then snap the Description column back and the scroll
bar goes away.
What is happening is that there is some total window width W, which
is the sum of widths of all of the columns (plus the margin space). If
one
wants to make some column Cx wider, some other collumn Cy needs to
shrink, but
this is impossible if the only column that is "shrinkable" (Cy) is the
Description column. I can make columns to the *left* of the
Description wider
or narrower, but not the columns to the right of the Description. Any
attempt
to make any of them wider ends up making them all narrower until
eventually
one (or more) of them end up with a width of 0. As far as I am
concerned, this
is a bug (and a serious one at that). This makes no sense.
Yes it does - try it and stop thinking about it.
I have the source code and will go hunting...
No need for that rabbit hole. Just follow the above. Note, this
behavior is described in the Help manual and as Stan noted, there is
also an FAQ entry about it. If you really want to see the code, go
right ahead, but you're just going to discover what I've described
above and is already documented behavior.
There is one additional difficulty which is that there is no border line
between the heading of the account column and the reconsiliation column.
So it is easy to resize the reconciliation column when in reality you
want to change the width of the account column...
There is also the possibility to double click on the right border of the
column headings to adjust the column width in such a way that the
content of the column becomes fully visible.
And as Adrien describes above, I can definitly make the columns on the
right side of the description wider. If there is not enough space some
columns or some part of a column becomes invisible and I get a
horizontal scroll bar which allows me to scroll the whole window
horizontally.
Regards,
Manfred
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