[GNC] Bug in account selection section of register

[David Carlson]

Colin,

What is the bug number?

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 2:21 AM Colin <colinfarndt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I can see my description of the issue was not
> very clear, because what I experienced was a clear and annoying bug. But I
> solved it after recognizing the type-ahead search was only searching among
> top-level account names. And then inferred the issue was the result of
> using a custom account separator character. I had set it to "." because
> that only takes 1 keystroke on a US keyboard, whereas ":" takes 2
> keystrokes.
>
> When I changed "." back to the default ":" the issue went away. I've gone
> ahead and filed a bug so this issue in type-ahead search can be addressed
> for anyone else using a period as their separator. For me changing back to
> the default is satisfactory. The new type ahead is great, because it means
> I don't *need *to type the separator most of the time.
>
> Interestingly, the issue didn't happen when I set the separator to a comma.
> I didn't do any more testing than that, so can't say if it happens with
> more than just a period as the separator.
>
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797864
>
> Thanks again,
> Colin
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:14 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > 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
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