1.7.4 comments

[Matthew Vanecek]

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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:35, Derek Atkins wrote:
> linas@linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
>=20
> > 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.=20=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> > 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 ...)
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?=20
>=20
> 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!

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Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek@yahoo.com>

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