Trouble With "Enter" vs. "Tab" (Again)

[John Ralls]

On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:47 AM, Liz wrote:

> Ian K wrote:
>> I think the 'Are you sure' catch to prevent unbalanced transactions is a
>> great idea - I have had numerous frustrating occasions correcting
>> transactions, deleting Imbalance-XXX accounts, only to have them reappear
>> again next time!
>> 
> 
> There was a similar feature many iterations of Gnucash ago, in which an
> unbalanced transaction got little markers next to it. You could then deal
> with the transaction and sort out where you had gone wrong.
> The markers were a bit small, and probably not obvious enough.
> A big "are you sure" tooltip would be preferred.

Those are still there, as I mentioned ("little gray 'x'es"), but you have to use Tab, and arrow key, or a mouse 
click to move to another field to see them. If you hit enter, Gnucash will create the Imbalance-XXX split.

Regards,
John Ralls