On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Chris Travers wrote: > > > Account numbers are hierarchical, so it makes sense to do a prefix match > > for those, but we can modify the logic so it does an internal match for > > description (so 'soft' would match 'Computer Software' as well as 'Income > > from Microsoft'). > > > > Any objection to this change? > > Chris, > > No objection, but a comment and a question. Text completion requires > knowing some part of the desired string. A list from which to selecte one > account requires knowing nothing about their numbers or names. Is the > latter > that much more difficult (or time consuming) to implement? > In 1.4 we have this already. The only thing really stopping us from back porting that is that it relies on Dojo, which is a pretty heavy dependency. > > I know nothing about BUI forms; in the Python/wxPython applications I > build a pick-list is one of the available data entry widget types. Perhaps > that's not as easy to do with a web framework. > The difficult aspect is doing something which doesn't inject more dependencies into the 1.3 tree or otherwise destabilize it. As I say, the way you describe is how things work in 1.4 now (approaching RC1). I would as soon wait for that. Best Wishes, Chris Travers > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Have knowledge, will travel. > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | > www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-users mailing list > Ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users > -- Best Wishes, Chris Travers Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. http://www.efficito.com/learn_more
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