Text field alignments

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>
> I think a tooltip-like popup is a reasonable alternative.
> 
> I don't like the ellipses idea only because it takes up valuable
> real estate space; If we were to use ellipses I would like to see
> the left-hand side limited to perhaps 1-3 characters.  But that
> takes up 2-6 precious characters that could be used in the leaf
> differentiator.
> 
> But Don I do see your problem here -- the differentiator could
> theoretically be anywhere in the account hierarchy.  Sometimes it could
> be in the left (Asset v. Income to differentiate e.g.  a Stock from its
> dividend income account).  Sometimes it's in the middle
> (e.g. differentiating your vs. your wife's retirement accounts).
> Sometimes it's the pentultimate account (e.g. differenting the Checking
> account from various Banks).

Theoretically, yes.  In practice, it's usually at one end or the other.
Usually the right end suffices.  Sometimes the left end helps.  Rarely 
is the middle needed.

Using short names also helps.

> 
> Note that if you enter into the account cell and click on the arrow
> it will pop up the list, and it IS possible to see the full account name
> in the list (through the scrollbar if nothing else).

It's also possible by selecting the account and usong the cursor keys to 
get to the end you want to see.  But it is inconvenient.

> However I think a tooltip would be a good idea.

yes.

-- hendrik