Hi David T., I seem to recall your original email but at the time I was unsure if what I was seeing was the same issue and it seems to have gone away anyway, but maybe it is the same thing :-)
My issue was that I was seeing the odd blank transaction in my savings account register, coincidentally the register that is always next to the accounts tab. Additionally I used to have an issue with duplicating transactions where the transaction was duplicated ok with today's date but it seemed to be locked and I couldn't just tab across to update the amount. I probably tried both tabbing and hitting enter - perhaps that created the blank transaction, who knows. I used to have to click on a different transaction and then come back to the duplicate transaction to update it for some reason so I was wondering if this was connected to the blank transaction in some way. Howsomever these little annoyances seem to have gone away. I'm pretty quick to update as soon as a new version comes out and am currently running the latest test version (3.905) on Win 10, Win 7, MacOS Catalina. I vaguely recall seeing a blank transaction as recently as a couple of weeks ago which would have been on version 3.10 when I opened gnucash on a pc I hadn't used for awhile. I'm using Gnucash on multiple pc's - Win 7, Win 10, MacOS Catalina (x2), Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and using dropbox to synchronise the file between platforms. My workflow consists of generally having 6 registers open in addition to the accounts tab and I usually update a single register at a time from right to left and normally always scroll down after updating each register so the date in the blank transaction is highlighted when I tab to the next register if it matters :-) As I said I haven't seen one of these blank transactions for a while so they may have gone away altogether. What version of gnucash are you using and what os ? Cheers David H. On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 01:32, David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I swear I reported troubles with this a long time ago, and I could have > sworn I added a bug about it. My recollection was that I was the only > person who could duplicate the issue, and so it never went anywhere > further. However, I find no evidence on Bugzilla or in the lists. Alas. > My search skills are clearly lacking. > > The issue is this: when I am in Tab "H" and duplicate a transaction by > clicking the toolbar Duplicate button, once I have concluded the process > by selecting a new date and pressing Enter, my cursor appears to be in > tab "H", but is actually on Tab "B" (which is the first register > account, after the COA). If I attempt to edit the transaction at this > point, the transaction that receives input is NOT the visible > transaction in tab H, but rather the hidden transaction on tab B. > > In the attached image, "Base Salary" is the aforementioned tab H, in > which I have just created a new transaction by clicking the Duplicate > button, choosing today's date and pressing Enter, which has created the > 06/19/2020 transaction that is visible on screen. > > If you look down where the big arrow is pointing, however, you will see > "66.59" clearly displayed. "66.59" is actually the value of a > transaction in ****the Checking register****. If I start typing, the > transaction that receives input *is in the Checking register and NOT the > visible transaction in the Base Salary register.* I have to remember to > use the mouse to actively click in the on screen transaction in order to > "select" the transaction I just created on the currently-visible > register and which appears to currently have focus. > > To say this is confusing is an understatement--and it only gets worse if > I start typing, fail to see any change, and then remember to click the > current register. Now, the visible register gets focus--and the hidden > register (which has changes I unwittingly have made) gets a commit. > Obviously, this can have significant negative effects: the transaction I > blindly edited has changed and been saved. Maybe that transaction is now > unreconciled. Maybe I put gibberish into the description. Maybe I put > gibberish into the transfer account, and GnuCash will send me a > mysterious message that the account doesn't exist, would I like to > create it. Maybe I have changed the amount on that transaction. > > I hope that this email provides enough information that others can now > see the problem that I have seen for a long time; if others can > duplicate this, I'll enter a bug report. > > David T. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
