[Inquiry]GNUCash SoC - Implementing Undo

[akintayo holder]

Yes, that first one is a problem and one that I have not personally
experienced - so I am guessing a bit. But if you create the entry in one
view then commit [guessing about this part] and move it to another view.
Then I would place the Undo entry in the first view's list, as you haven't
updated it from the new view as yet.  So if you were to then Undo the
transaction would return to the context in which it was being edited. But
all the changes would've been undone, and it would be as it were before you
started the updating.

I think displaying the operation being Undone is fine, but I am not fond of
multiple Undo menu options.

Undoing import was one of the first things Derek mentioned, I think the
problems are ensuring atomicity and multiuser access. I don't expect it to
be easy to do, especially since each transaction's state must be checked and
updated in an atomic operation.
Akintayo




On 3/27/07, Beth Leonard <beth at oasis.slimy.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:07:03PM -0300, Peter Selinger wrote:
>
> > I agree with Derek that operations should be undone in the order in
> > which they were performed, i.e., at the book level, not the account
> > level.
>
> I'll add my "me too" here.  With splits it gets particularly
> complicated.  One of the things I most want to undo in GnuCash
> happens when I'm editing a complicated split and as part of
> that process I change (accidently or not) the account that I'm
> using to view the split at the time.  The whole thing suddenly
> dissappears and I'm left with a "what just happened?" feeling --
> I know something's wrong but it takes me a little while to figure
> out that my whole transaction just moved to another account view.
>
> I think undo has to work at a global level.
>
> Naming the action that is going to be undone in the menu
> item is a good start -- i.e.
> Undo edit transaction
> Undo delete transaction
> Undo import prices
> Undo import QIF
> Undo change report options
> Undo change account name
> Undo delete account
>
> etc. This way the user has some idea of what is going to be
> undone when they click that item.
>
> The second most likely thing I want to undo is importing a
> QIF or QXF file.  I've taken to using save/restore just
> in case the file I import isn't the file I thought it was.
>
> --Beth
> Beth Leonard
> http://www.LeonardFamilyVideos.com
>