On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:40:44PM -0500, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > Jonathan Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But...why > > can't I *type* a customer name when creating an invoice? > > Because.. Well.. you just can't. The real reason is that there is no > way to intuit _what_ you want to search for when you type in a name. > I don't want to use a pull-down menu, because I don't want to require > the engine to cache all your customers in ram (imagine a SQL database > with thousands of customers). > > If you were to type something, should it search for the name? the id? > the contact? What if there are no matches? multiple matches? > > I didn't want to go down that route -- so I make you go through the > search dialog. If you prefer I can make it so you can't even enter
I used peachtree heavily for a while, and I remember that one of thethings I didn't like about it was that most tasks required you to go through the search dialog (and a huge pull-down of all accounts!), which got tedious and annoying pretty quick. So how about this for a suggested enhancement: If the sql database has less than e.g. 200 names, then all the names *would* be cached in ram, and the usual type-ahead/matching/tab-completion would work. Otherwise, if the list seems too big, then the search dialog is forced... (yes, I know, don't remind me that I, too, can volunteer to code this up ...) --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
