Res: Issue entering transaction on a new account

[Derek Atkins]

What version of GnuCash?
What OS/Distro?

I cannot reproduce this on my Linux (Fedora 7) system with either
branches/2.2 or trunk svn builds.

-derek

Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
>      well.. I load my personal finances file, double click on my banking account. Gnucash brings a list of transactions. Then I select the account name for any transaction and begin typing Despesas:Som. When I'm typing up to the first s, after the colon, it keeps trying to match (there's an account named Despesas:Supermercado). When I type the letter O, the list of accounts stays open above the field I'm typing but with no account selected. When I finish typing the whole account name, I hit enter. Instead of prompting me to create a new account, gnucash replaces the account name with Despesas:Supermercado.
>
> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Para: Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 18 de Janeiro de 2008 13:04:59
> Assunto: Re: Issue entering transaction on a new account
>
> Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>>     I've noticed that whenever I'm registering a new transaction and
>  I type an account name which doesn't exist, gnucash first tries to
>  match  an existing account (even tought I've already typed enough text to
>  make it obvious that I'm not talking about any account already
>  registered).
>
> Can you provide an example?  As soon as you type more than existing
> accounts it should stop trying to match, and indeed that's what it
> does here for me.
>
>> I have to type esc, delete the account name (or a portion of it, I'm
>  not certain) and then type it again to make gnucash prompt me to create
>  a new account. I'm interested on working on this issue. Anyone could
>  give a clue on where I should begin looking ? That is, where's the
>  portion of code responsible for handling input ?
>
> A combination of places.  QuickFill and the register.
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Renato Moutinho Silva
>
> -derek
>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available