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Category Drop Down Box - goes off the screen

ps56kps56k SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
same as reported here -
https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/category-drop-down-box-goes-off-the-screen

when attempting to enter a Category for a transaction in the Register,
as you type, and it wants to auto-complete - the Category Box is off the top of the screen...
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BTW - how much time is alloted here on the forum for the EDIT/REMOVE functions ?
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  • smayer97smayer97 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
     BTW - how much time is alloted here on the forum for the EDIT/REMOVE functions ?
    It is not time based. You can edit a post as long as no one has clicked Like/Me-Too/Vote, or posted a reply or comment directly underneath your post, reply or comment, or a mod has not closed the thread.

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  • Unknown Member
    edited October 2018
    You didn't state what version of Quicken you are using.

    EDIT:
    You should also state what your resolution of you screen is set to, and what Windows scaling you might set (125% for instance).
  • ps56kps56k SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Win10 - Q2018 R9.34 -

    1280 x 800 - 100%

    none of which should matter, as every single other Windows program functions correctly -

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  • Unknown Member
    edited August 2018
    ps56k said:

    Win10 - Q2018 R9.34 -

    1280 x 800 - 100%

    none of which should matter, as every single other Windows program functions correctly -

    It matters a great deal.  Some versions of Quicken have never got a "fix" for the problem, and some have.  And of the ones that have there are still some "edge cases" that still don't work right.

    The basic problem is that they have spec'd that Quicken would work on a certain resolution and above, and then proceeded to create a fixed size category list box that was bigger than would fit on the lower resolution screens they spec'd.

    This problem was introduce a few years ago when the "revamped" the category list box with the searching and such.

    The fix that they put in was to resize the category list based on the resolution.
    It was put in Quicken 2017 and in a patch in the 2018 Release of Quicken, but there were some resolution/windows scaling settings that Quicken didn't guess right on the size, and therefore the "edge cases".

    But I just tested with your settings and one that I know was working 1024x768 in 2018 R11.16 and both show the problem.

    So, somewhere in some of their patches they have broken this again.

    What I suggest Quicken Inc do is stop trying to be "fancy" and resizing the dialog (or this case failing to do it), and just make the dialog small enough to fit on their lowest spec'd resolution.  It is a very simple fix, that won't "break" or have "edge cases".

    There really isn't any reason that the category list box has to be that big.

    Of course I recommended that fix for the years that it was broken, and that got ignored, so I doubt they will listen this time either.

    Looking through the release notes I didn't find it, but here is a reference to a comment where it was fixed in 2017 and 2018.
    https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/category-box-pop-up-half-off-screen-in-2017-windows?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=all&topic-reply-list[settings][reply_id]=18965413#reply_18965413
  • ps56kps56k SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2018
    ps56k said:

    Win10 - Q2018 R9.34 -

    1280 x 800 - 100%

    none of which should matter, as every single other Windows program functions correctly -

    tnx for the reply and informative history....
    Never had a problem on 2015 - then upgraded to Q2018 -
    and didn't notice since I rarely add any new Category entries.....
    until just recently - bam -
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  • Gar TaylorGar Taylor Member ✭✭
    edited January 2019

    1/12/2019
    Me too when accepting downloaded transactions and using large fonts
    Quicken - Deluxe 2019 R17.6 Build 27.1.17.6
    Windows 10 64 bit (updates are current as of 1/12/2019)
    Display scale 100% resolution 1920 x 1080

  • ps56kps56k SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019


    1/12/2019
    Me too when accepting downloaded transactions and using large fonts
    Quicken - Deluxe 2019 R17.6 Build 27.1.17.6
    Windows 10 64 bit (updates are current as of 1/12/2019)
    Display scale 100% resolution 1920 x 1080

    BTW - I think the postings are avail for editing/delete - until someone posts a followup reply/comment below your posting -
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