Register rewrite

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:35:30PM -0800, Charles Day wrote:
> > Could someone enlighten me as to the state of the register rewrite, or
> point
> > me to some kind of "readme" about it? I would like to know what the
> approach
> > was, where things left off, etc.
> > I had a quick look at the register-rewrite branch. My first impression is
> > that the original register code has not been changed at all and that some
> > kind of new stuff based on GtkTreeView was being worked on. Is it the
> > intention to abandon a GUI-independent register design for a Gtk+
> dependent
> > version?
>
> Yes, exactly.  At the time, it was somewhat of a feasibility study, as
> GtkTreeViews were still a little new and there weren't too many
> examples of good implementations that used 1000s+ of entries.
> These days, it's not really a question of the quality of the gtk+ bits.
>

OK, I may take a look at some point. I did get pretty familiar GtkTreeView
and its related widgets when fixing the Security Editor and Price Editor.
Now that the known register crashes have been fixed, at the moment I
probably give higher priority to lots, OFX investment importing, and Mac
packaging.


> I haven't had the time to work on it (or any other part of GnuCash)
> for quite a while now.  IIRC, last time I worked on it, I got copy and
> pasting of transactions working, which was pretty low on my priority
> list, so I think it's probably usable, though not polished.
>

Cool, thanks for the update. I take it the old split register code is to be
abandoned, so I don't have to worry about bring my trunk register fixes over
to the register-rewrite branch.


>
> -chris
>

Cheers,
Charles