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Bug 342182 - Gnucash register field suggestions no longer works
Gnucash register field suggestions no longer works
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Register
1.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: David Hampton
Chris Shoemaker
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-17 21:22 UTC by Paul Dickson
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Paul Dickson 2006-05-17 21:22:12 UTC 
Using gtk2-2.9.1, the field suggestions no longer work like they did.

Now, if I have the word "Cash" in a previous field, and type "C", the word "Cash" is suggested, but the remainder of the word is not highlighted.  So if I then type "a" I get: "Caash".  If I continue typing the whole word, I end up with "Cashash".

I'm using Fedora Development.  I initially though it was due a recent guile update, but someone using FC5 with the same verion of guile and gnucash did not have this problem.

I'm not familiar with gnucash's code, but could this problem be due to gtk2-2.9.[01]?

The dependencies of gnucash have made it difficult to revert software updates.  What gnucash is dependent upon is also used by other unrelated code too.

I would like confirmation of this if this is the case so I can file a bug report.  If it isn't gtk2, please let me know what other library is doing it if it isn't gnucash.

Thanks.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191591
Comment 1 Josh Sled 2006-05-23 23:00:16 UTC 
I'd believe that this is due to gtk-2.9.* ... specifically, the following in src/register/register-gnome/gnucash-sheet.c:

#define GTK_ALLOWED_SELECTION_WITHIN_INSERT_SIGNAL (GTK_MINOR_VERSION > 8)

Which is probably still not true in gtk 2.9.  We might want to invert this and assume that it'll never be true until proven to be, later...
Comment 2 Josh Sled 2006-05-23 23:05:44 UTC 
Sorry, that wasn't very clear: "I believe this is due to gnucash, because of use of gtk-2.9."
Comment 3 Josh Sled 2006-05-24 01:46:53 UTC 
r14162, 1.9.7.  We now check for the condition where {gtk_minor_version < 4}, not {> 8}, which should allow autocomplete-selection with gtk-2.9 to work.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-05-24 02:18:38 UTC 
Yeah, this fixes it in a quick check for me.
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:04:36 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342182. Please update any external references or bookmarks.