[GNC] Autofill Oddity

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

It was introduced in 4.0 and described in the release notes like this:

• New type-ahead search added to sequential search when selecting an
account in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a
top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next
level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part
of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only
matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow
keys to select the account that you want.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:56 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apparently the feature to filter accounts described by Robin is something
> that I do not see in release 3.8.  Is that described somewhere in the Help
> manual?
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 1:42 PM Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This happens to me under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as well (Under several Gnucash
>> versions up to 4.4, it started around the time the feature to filter
>> accounts was introduced instead of the previous way of starting at the top
>> of the tree).
>>
>> I have worked around this by clicking the drop-down arrow in the Transfer
>> column. Then the auto-fill can proceed as 'normal'.
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 11:42 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > GnuCash 4.4 under Windows 10. Long time user.
>> >
>> > Recent releases have included an update to the Autofill feature, which
>> > generally is a good thing. However, others have reported strange hitches
>> > using the new feature under Windows--situations where the register hangs
>> > and the application appears to stop working. I have also experienced
>> > these problems, but could not see any specific aspects that would help.
>> > However, I have now noticed one detail on my machine that may help in
>> > tracking this down. To wit, when I first start GnuCash, the first
>> > transaction entered in a register hangs after the user enters the first
>> > character in the Transfer column. The combo box indicator shows, but
>> > there is no further indication that anything has happened; the machine
>> > just stops. The application doesn't respond to keyboard input, but
>> > clicking elsewhere in the register window causes the Create account
>> > dialog to display. Cancelling this dialog then brings focus back to the
>> > Transfer column, the Accounts combo box shows, and all behaves as
>> > expected. From this point forward, Autofill seems to work as expected.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > David T.
>> >
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