Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Wed May 29 04:10:37 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 28 May 2013 14:59:04 John Ralls wrote:
> On May 28, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I was trying out 2.5.1 on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and was prepared to
> > report that it was crashing when I tried closing and then re-opening my
> > main checking account register. Every time I did, I got a beach
> > ball/hourglass, and had to force quit the application.
> > 
> > I thought the problem had to do with the fact that my Accounts were set to
> > use tab color designators (which are not displaying, BTW). But loading a
> > couple of other colored-tab accounts worked. That was when I remembered
> > the thread regarding SLOW loading. Sure enough, when I tried again to
> > open my account, and this time waited over two minutes (!!), my account
> > opened in the new register. So consider this another voice raised for
> > needing this to work faster. I truly thought I had crashed the software!
> > 
> > Having loaded the new register, I see what folks have been saying about
> > the screen flag for future transactions. Personally I think it does not
> > work. Users looking at the register see it naturally as a flow of time
> > from the top of the screen to the bottom, and having the blue horizontal
> > line is highly effective at indicating a transition from past to future.
> > Having a vertical bar might work, but is nowhere near as obvious.
> > Furthermore, embedding this bar two thirds of the way off to the right
> > makes no sense to me at all. At the very least, it should default to the
> > left-most position. I was able to move it to the left--by moving all the
> > other fields to the right, which was quite cumbersome. I think the old
> > way would be clearer. Or perhaps the entire transaction could have a
> > different background color if its in the future?
> > 
> > I'll note that the correct heading is "Withdrawal", not "Withdrawl."
> > 
> > Finally, the click-sortable columns is really neat, but I would like to
> > see it possible to have a "Click to restore the default sort order"
> > button. I did not see any way to return to this sort order once I had
> > clicked on a heading. This is especially frustrating since the tendency
> > to re-sort a column is great when one is simply trying to resize the
> > columns.
> Thanks for the report. I hope you mean 2.5.2, released today, rather than
> 2.5.1 from 3 weeks ago.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
It looks like David really tested 2.5.1: the typing error in "Withdrawal" was part of that version 
and fixed in 2.5.2.

David: 2.5.2 has already some speed improvements, though there is plenty of room for more. 
Can you evaluate that version and update your feedback based on it ?

Thanks,

Geert


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