I understand what you're saying, although I don't think it's a good idea to have two ways of doing something and then for there to be different effects depending on whether you use your mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Nonetheless, this choice remains with the programmer.
But consider this situation: If I have a pending transaction and now make it cleared using the key stroke method, the transaction remains pending, and it stays orange. It is also "cleared," you can see this if you right click on the transaction, but the account balance doesn't change. On the other hand, if I take the same pending transaction and use the mouse to change it to cleared, the pending transaction flag is removed, the transaction changes to blue, and the account balance is updated. Naturally, if I have a pending transaction, and then one to clear it, it's no longer pending. Your keystroke method doesn't do the same thing that the mouse does unless you use two keystrokes, which is pretty unnatural and non-intuitive. Furthermore, it seems to me that a pending transactions and cleared transactions are mutually exclusive. I can't think of a case where you would have a pending transaction that is also cleared, or a cleared transaction that is also pending. Maybe someone can think of a situation, but it seems like a transaction would be one or the other. Grace, Blair On Jan 1, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Kevin Hoctor wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Blair Watkinson wrote: > >> I discovered another behavior that I don't think is intended, but >> maybe it is for reasons not yet known to me. When using the keyboard >> shortcuts to change a transaction's status, there are different >> effects than when using the Status combo box in the Transaction >> Detail >> panel. >> >> Take a pending transaction. Now press ⌘⇧C. The transaction is >> now >> both a pending transaction and a cleared transaction. Some how, the >> key stroke method of assigning a transaction status to cleared does >> not toggle the other status off, but merely adds the cleared >> status. In this way, you can have a transaction that is both >> pending and cleared, or reconciled and cleared. Similarly, if the >> previous status was cleared, selecting a new status does not remove >> the cleared status, but only adds the new status. > > > Blair, > > That behavior is actually okay and I allowed it because it's nice not > to lose a cleared flag just because you accidently mark something as > pending. At one time it was cleared and that should persist. > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > [email protected] > No Thirst Software LLC > http://nothirst.com > http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
