GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 577617
Account Name column is extraordinarily wide and does not resize to normal width
Last modified: 2018-06-29 22:20:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: I had set up a budget page with Budget Period every two weeks beginning on Jan. 8, 2009, with 26 periods to correspond to biweekly pay period. I had entered some data and decided to try a new Budget Period corresponding to the four Quarters in the Year. I think I may have done this incorrectly and rather than starting a new budget by way of File -> New -> New Budget, I modified the bi-weekly budget and it began displaying the Account Name column very, very wide Steps to reproduce: 1. Set up budget with two week period beginning in the year, with 26 periods 2. Name budget Bi-Weekly Budget 3. Modify budget by changing Budget Period via Options Menu to every three Months and changing Budget Period to 4 Actual results: I can't reproduce these steps because I cannot revert the program to its original state. I deleted the hidden files in /home/jan/.gnucash and delete the program via emerge -C gnucash and then reinstalled Expected results: The various columns in the Budget window should retain a reasonable size and be resizeable Does this happen every time? I can't tell because I can't return to the original state. Other information: This was built on a Gentoo 2008 AMD64 system with office/gnucash ~amd64 Hence unstable package unmasked
I can't reproduce this. I started with a blank db, created some basic accounts, created a budget named Bi-Weekly Budget with 26 2-week periods starting Jan 8/09. I then entered some values. Then, I set it to 4 3-month periods. Result: I was left with an account name column and 4 budget columns. The account name column did expand so that the 5 columns filled the space, but it was definitely a reasonable size.
Created attachment 133457 [details] Screenshot of the left side of the display window - note the single acct name field
Created attachment 133458 [details] Screenshot of the right side of the display window - note the slider & date columns
So this is reproducible to the extent that I have been able to create it in both my linux system and win laptop, but once created it seems to reside with the data because I have deleted the program and installed a number of earlier versions and had the same kind of display. Jan
Yes, that's definitely unreasonable. Can you attach the data file?
Created attachment 133463 [details] Data Fiel Here is the data file. Jan
I'm not sure how to proceed, because I can load your file with no problems. It has a budget with 12 1-month periods in it. I can convert the budget to 26 2-week periods, then back to 4 3-month periods and everything looks fine. Can you reproduce it with that file? After you duplicate the problem, what happens if you save the file to a different name and then reload it?
Yes, it occurs with that file. I saved the file to a different name and loaded the newly named file and had the same thing occur. I did however notice something that I had not seen before. I thought the Account name column extended all the way across until the the biweekly date columns. In fact there is a huge white space between the Account columns and the date columns whereas the Account Name columnm has alternating dark and light grey rows as do the biweekly data columns. The alternating light and dark grey rows will appear briefly when I click in that area if I go and click there from the Account Name column. Could this be some kind of a graphics driver problem? Jan
Hi, I'm seeing the same problem in both versions 2.3.4 and 2.3.5. I simply goto New->Budget and the screen automatically has the accounts column very wide. At one point, I lost the horizontal scrollbar at the bottome so I couldn't event scroll over to the other columns. I'm using a 64-bit version of Vista. On my 32-bit system running XP, there is no issue with the wide column. Hope this helps. Liz P.S. I've been using GnuCash for about 8 months now and I'm really pleased with it.
I can confirm this exact bug on GnuCash 2.2.9 & 2.3.7 running in Windows. It pretty much makes the budget feature of GnuCash unusable.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. Closing this bug as it is reported against 2.2.9. There won't be any releases anymore in the 2.2.x series. Bug #597005 reports the same problem against 2.3.x, so it makes more sense to track it there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 597005 ***
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