[GNC-dev] Ideas for account type-ahead modification

[Jean Laroche]

People,
I have a version you can test here: 
https://github.com/jeanlaroche/gnucash.git , fix_autocompletion branch.
A couple notes:
- I worked off of maint, which I shouldn't have since this is probably a 
new feature. I'll fix that eventually.
- The feature is fully functional, as far as I can tell.
- I added an option in the preferences to use type-ahead-search 
(register), but at this point, it's not working right (it does not hold, 
so I must be missing some code).
- I tested on accounts with large number of accounts (> 8000), and as 
far as I can tell it works OK. When you start typing there are 
potentially thousands of matching accounts but I only display the first 
30 to avoid making the UI horribly sluggish, I think that's a good 
compromise.

Give that a shot and let me know what you think. The code is not ready 
for a PR as I still have lots of comments that would need to go.

PREFERENCES:
If someone can point me in the right direction for preferences, it would 
be great. I essentially replicated the code for "Enter moves to blank 
transaction" (by searching all references of the defines for that pref, 
and adding the ones needed for the new option) but I must be missing 
something because the code says the preference key is invalid. The new 
option shows in the preferences, but the rest isn't working.



On 3/10/20 11:14 AM, Robert Fewell wrote:
> Jean,
> That patch was for register2 which is stalled, it has no bearing on the 
> current version.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 16:53, Frank H. Ellenberger 
> <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com <mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Jean,
> 
>     Am 10.03.20 um 17:41 schrieb Jean Laroche:
>      > Frank,
>      > I tried reviving this patch, but git patch failed. I recreated
>     the patch
>      > manually (which wasn't very hard given that it contains few
>     changes) but
>      > I don't see any effect (not breakpoint is hit). So I'm wondering
>     whether
>      > this patch is still useful.
> 
>     I believe, Bob will faster understand, what is happening there.
> 
>     ~Frank
>