[GNC] Register entry method. was: Bulk moving transactions

[David Carlson]

Sorry, I didn't expect my comment to turn into a discussion.  Therefore I
am splitting it off of the original thread

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:14 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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