[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

[David Carlson]

Back around the time the register2 rewrite was started I believe that I
suggested replacing the complex register code with a basic data input
pop-up window for the selected transaction or other input requirement such
as stock purchase, or business feature more like one would likely find in a
database application.  I will suggest a similar design change today to
whomever decides to take up this task.  Unfortunately, I only know Basic
and Fortran IV, which wouldn't get me very far today, so my help would be
very limited.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I started looking at that a little while before 4.0 and stopped because
> no new features could be added. I'm going to re-start, as this strikes
> me as a must-have feature.
> The other elephant in the room is the undo/redo support, but that's for
> another thread....
> J.
>
> On 7/1/20 1:32 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, July 1, 2020 4:27 pm, Jean Laroche wrote:
> >> Does it not trike you as insane that we have to go through these hoops
> >> just to bulk move transactions? Something that should be as simple as
> >> shift-select, right-click, move?
> >> I'm not sure how support for multi-select operations was never seriously
> >> looked at.
> >
> > Patches always welcome!
> >
> > Seriously, it's not that easy due to the design and implementation of the
> > register.  The register-2 rewrite was supposed to make it easier, but
> that
> > effort (started about a decade ago) stalled and never finished, so we're
> > still using the same Canvas-based register code.
> >
> >> J.
> >
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> >
> > -derek
> >
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David Carlson