select accounts by name: focus off tab

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 02 April 2009 at 11:51, Charles Day said:
>
> > 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...
> [...]
> > > 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).
> [...]
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm running Windows. With an account selected, hitting an alpha key
> causes two things to happen:
> 1. Focus moves to the first account starting with that letter
> 2. A text-entry box appears, containing the letter I typed.
> Further keys have no apparent effect. After a few seconds (5?), the text-
> entry box goes away, following which another alpha key will move the
> focus as before.
>
> It does not seem possible to select any other than the first entry with a
> given initial (e.g. I have "Cash in Hand" a sub-account of "Current
> Assets"; "c" selects "Current Assets").
>
> Given this, I'll continue to use the arrow keys - less confusing!


This is the GTK bug I was referring to. I believe that if you upgrade to
2.2.9 it will go away.

-Charles