[GNC] Bug in account selection section of register

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 19, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Colin <colinfarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just upgraded to 4.0 on my Mac and Linux machine, and have this bug on
> both.
> 
> When entering a new item in the register of any account, if I type the
> account name using the old logic (type first few characters of the top
> account name, press the separator key, type the first few characters of the
> next subaccount name etc) it works fine. I see a pop-up box above the field
> with all the account names as before.
> 
> If I try to use that box using the new logic (i.e. type the first few
> letters of the final level sub account) it doesn't work. It will not fill
> in or display that account as an option. Moreover, the popup list that
> shows up above displays only about 20 of my first accounts, all the rest
> are gone. This is conspicuous because I probably have close to 100 accounts
> in total.
> 
> At this point, if I press delete while in that box, I can clear the field.
> But the missing accounts in the pop-up window don't return. I have to
> discard the transaction entirely and start over before I can get a full
> account list again.
> 
> I did a search of the bugzilla but didn't see this listed there since 4.0
> came out.

Colin,

The first part is the way the typeahead feature works: It filters the drop down list to those accounts that contain the letters you've typed. It does recognize your account separator so e.g. if you type "qui:bal" then Equity:Opening Balances will be in the list. 

It doesn't fill in the entry with the selection, but if you've typed enough so that the top item in the list is the one you want then if you tab out it will fill in with that one. Otherwise you can use the up and down arrows to select an item from the drop down. Whatever is selected will be put in the entry when you tab out.

The backspace problem is probably https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797845 that I fixed a few minutes ago.

Regards,
John Ralls