[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

[David Carlson]

Maybe I don't know the correct terminology.  I envision the currently
selected transaction automatically appearing in a data entry window instead
of in the register.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:09 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Popups are a very inefficient entry method.
>
> You already have the Ctrl-T (Enter Transfer) popup if you really want to
> use pop-ups for entry.
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, July 1, 2020 5:05 pm, David Carlson wrote:
> > 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