Text field alignments

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >     If whoever the gatekeeper is (Derek?) agrees that such a facility
> >     makes sense, I will offer to try to find the time to write the code
> >     myself. I can't be sure this will work out, as some of the demands on
> >     my time are unpredictable, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
> >
> > I've already committed the changes to use right-justification in r17958,
> so at
> > least it is consistent now. I'll defer to Derek as far as whether to add
> a
> > justification option or use tooltips or both. I'm not sure how much work
> > either of those would take, but I suspect that the change would mainly
> involve
> > the Gnome-specific parts of the register code that I'm unfamiliar with.
> So I
> > may not be the person to do it.
>
> I think a tooltip-like popup is a reasonable alternative.
>

Me too. However I'm not sure how to make it happen. I had a look, and I
think the register cells might be based on GnomeCanvas stuff that doesn't
have tooltip features.

Could someone add an enhancement request to Bugzilla that suggests the
tooltip and/or a justification user option?


> 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).
>
> 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).
>
> However I think a tooltip would be a good idea.
>
> >     /Don
> >
> > -Charles
>
> -derek
>
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-Charles