Budgeting?

[Derek Atkins]

The Doctor What <docwhat at gerf.org> writes:

> > The checkbox actually can have THREE states.  If you simply click it, 
> > it goes from "unchecked" to "checked" and back again, meaning the 
> > entire directory is selected or not.  But if you open the directory via 
> > the triangle, and select some (but not all) included files or 
> > subdirectories, the triangle automatically gets a "-" inside it, 
> > indicating the partial selection.  The selections, and the "-" sign, 
> > persist when the directory is collapsed from visibility so you can tell 
> > that there are sub-selections within.
> 
> I like this idea.  It's used in other interfaces, so that it'll be
> familiar to some users, and it's flexible.  Is it doable, GnuCash
> Developers?

What gnome application have you seen do this?  If Gnome supports this
then we should be able to do it..  Otherwise, my other suggestion is
to add an on-screen preference, "select-all", for how to handle row
selections.  If this preference is turned on, then it
selects/deselects the whole sub-tree; if it's off then it only
operates on the one line.

However, if you can provide a pointer to a gnome app that has the
functionality the we should be able to replicate it.

> Ciao!

-derek

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