I'll try. I've been really busy recently. -derek
Phil Longstaff <[email protected]> writes: > I don't use the business features. Derek, do you have the time to look at > this and commit it? If not, I can do some basic sanity checking and then > commit it. > > Phil > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Geert Janssens <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:56:27 AM > Subject: Bug 101456 - 'Find' dialog cumbersome for Business functions > > Hi, > > I have just added a patch to this bug > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101456 > > It may still be improved, but the current implementation works quite well > already. > > I spent way more time than I should on getting this done (and thanks Derek > for > your patience with me on IRC :) > > Although I have done some coding in the past, this was my first experience > with autotools, gnome, gtk, gobject and GnuCash. So my learning curve was > steep :) > > Anyway, the patch is there, feedback is appreciated. > > What it does: > It allows one to enter a Vendor/Job/Employee/Invoice/... directly into the > appropriate text entry widget, optionally selecting an autocompletion value > when they pop up. This way you can in many cases avoid to use the search > dialog for the same thing. > > Things that could still be improved: > * Limit the autocompletion list to active objects only > * For invoices/bills: only show the relevant ones. Currently both bills and > invoices are listed at all times. At first glance this can only be done with > some major refactoring of the invoice qof object, so it would definitly be > something for a later revision. > * Dynamic autocompletion list generation. This can be considered if there are > performance issues with generating the list statically beforehand. I don't > notice significant performance problems on my books, but that could be > different for others. > * Autocomplete the value in the text entry widget while typing. > > I do not intend to implement these extras right away, unless the devs > consider > this patch incomplete without one of them. The patch works fairly ok as it is > right now. > > Considering this is an outstanding annoyance since 2002, I hope it can get > included as is in the 2.4 release. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [email protected] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
