Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread jean laroche
I have the beginning of a solution for type-ahead. It's functional but it does not implement the whole idea. Here's what I did: - Made it possible to type and see the pop up select the *first* account that match the typed string (in real-time, as you type). - From then on, if you're happy with

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Jean Laroche
That patch was for register2 which is stalled, it has no bearing on the current version. Bob OK Thanks, that makes sense. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Robert Fewell
Jean, That patch was for register2 which is stalled, it has no bearing on the current version. Bob On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 16:53, Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jean, > > Am 10.03.20 um 17:41 schrieb Jean Laroche: > > Frank, > > I tried reviving this patch, but

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Jean Laroche
I agree, if we implement this (typing by account number) the pop up list must show the account numbers as well as the account names, I imagine... On 3/10/20 9:54 AM, David Carlson wrote: I would like to see account selection by account number capability expanded to be able to have some

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread David Carlson
I would like to see account selection by account number capability expanded to be able to have some visibility when typing. Currently we need to have a good memory or a cheat sheet by the keyboard. David Carlson On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:48 AM Jean Laroche wrote: > > On 3/10/20 9:23 AM,

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Jean, Am 10.03.20 um 17:41 schrieb Jean Laroche: > Frank, > I tried reviving this patch, but git patch failed. I recreated the patch > manually (which wasn't very hard given that it contains few changes) but > I don't see any effect (not breakpoint is hit). So I'm wondering whether > this patch

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Jean Laroche
On 3/10/20 9:23 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Can account number entry be part of the solution? (or is that a separate ball of wax?) I know I’ve seen that asked for as well. (and would use it myself if it existed) The current work around is to include the account number in the account name

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Jean Laroche
Frank, I tried reviving this patch, but git patch failed. I recreated the patch manually (which wasn't very hard given that it contains few changes) but I don't see any effect (not breakpoint is hit). So I'm wondering whether this patch is still useful.

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Can account number entry be part of the solution? (or is that a separate ball of wax?) I know I’ve seen that asked for as well. (and would use it myself if it existed) The current work around is to include the account number in the account name (though it has its own field) and even then it

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Jean Laroche
Thanks for pointing me to this bug report! I don't know how I missed it. I looks like a patch was created a long time ago, commented upon, but then nothing was done about it, which is really too bad. It might be useful for small private acoount herarchies. But on major business templats with

Re: [GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

2020-03-10 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Jean, Am 09.03.20 um 22:16 schrieb jeanl: > I'm looking at this suggestion > https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1589607-type-ahead-search-when-entering-the-accounts-to-a You can expect, more devs would read the linked bug report