My experience is limited to register displays in releases up to 2.6.19, so I do not expect details to be identical.
GnuCash uses variable width fonts so the digit one is less wide than other digits. Any date with a one in it is less wide than other dates, and about a third of all dates have single digit day numbers, a third have the digit one with another digit, and a third have the digit two or three with another digit. Two digit year formats are also less wide. I think the Gnome graphic renderer counts pixels when deciding how wide a string actually is . So GnuCash actually has no control over that anyway. David Carlson On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 1:46 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > On Dec 12, 2019 w50d346, at 1:35 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > How would the code know how wide the entire date is when it may take > months to see a date with all wide digits when only selected dates appear. > Date field also randomly expands when that pesky calendar widget appears. > > Not sure what you mean by ‘wide digits’. > > I always see four digits for the year and 2 for both month and day. I > can’t even find a setting to change that. (in GnuCash or in MacOS) > > But my guess would be that it would either check or store the size of the > displayed date. How does it know how to size the column now when you double > click? Certainly it either knows or checks the size of the content. > > Yes, invoices are different. The widget overlays the date, it doesn’t > cause the column to grow. If you want to see the whole date with the > overlay, you have to manually resize the column, but then you get padding > in that column which may generate a scroll bar. > > I don’t think anything in this thread is concerning registers or any > suggestions to change how they work. The topic was about invoices. > > Regards, > Adrien > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
