On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:35, Derek Atkins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > 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. > > I certainly can understand the frustration. One thing that gnucash > allows you to do is work _from_ the search windows.. So you can start > from there instead of starting from, say, the invoice. > > > 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 ...) > > Feel free to file an RFE, but i dont have time to get this into 1.8.0. > I'm not against the model at all (however it doesn't scale well). I > suppose I could just autocomplete on the locally-cached entries (which > means 'all' of them in XML, and 'whatever you've used so far' in a SQL > system). Then the SQL Backend could cache whatever it wants when you > startup. > > However, I'll pose the same question to you -- on what values do you > autocomplete? Do you autocomplete on the Customer Name? The Customer > Number? The Customer Contact? > > I'll think about how to do this for a future release/enhancement > (unless someone provides me the code to do this sooner :) But it's > not something I plan to finish (or even start) before 1.8.
How does the auto-complete work in the register? Would that be hard to duplicate in whatever 1 or 2 fields that autocomplete is needed in here? That's pulled from the cached results too, isn't it? And my bank account certainly has more than 200 entries in it! -- Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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