select accounts by name: focus off tab

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm running GnuCash 2.2.6 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. I discovered quite
> by accident that I could SOMETIMES select an account by typing the
> first few letters of the account name, but sometimes not... SO I just
> did a few tests to figure out why...
>
> When I have focus on any account line (by clicking on an account in
> the Accounts list, NOT by clicking on the Accounts tab), I can select
> any account in the list, IF it is not collapsed into a superior
> account, by typing the first few characters of the account name. If I
> leave your hands off the mouse, I can open the account by pressing the
> Enter key, enter stuff, close the tab with Ctrl-W, select another
> account, and so forth.
>
> For example, to select my account: Assets:Current Assets:Checks Received
> I can type type "checks" to select it (as long as it is not collapsed
> under Current Assets or Assets).
>
> After I click on the Accounts tab, I cannot select an account by
> typing its name.
>
> It would be cool if the focus went to the Accounts list when you
> clicked the tab so you can just start typing the account name.
>

The "search" functionality you are seeing is built into the GtkTreeView
control and isn't part of GnuCash.  (And it is actually broken in some
version of Gtk). It could probably be customized to be even more useful.

Right now if you click on the tab then focus goes to the first column
header. (At least for me, running trunk on OS X/MacPorts/Quartz.) Putting
focus on the list definitely seems better. For now, you can just hit the Tab
key to move to the list.

-Charles


>
> I just reported this as bug 577745
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577745
>
> P.S.: Bugzilla.gnome.org is slow as molasses today!
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