[GNC] Bug in account selection section of register

[Colin]

Hi David,

I included a link to the bug report at the end of my message. It's #797864.
On Jul 20 2020, at 12:49 pm, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin,
>
> What is the bug number?
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 2:21 AM Colin <colinfarndt at gmail.com (mailto: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 (mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us)> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Jul 19, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Colin <colinfarndt at gmail.com (mailto: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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