[GNC] Autofill Oddity

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Thanks everyone. So it would appear that the new Type ahead (I am using the appropriate terminology here) code has an initialization problem that numerous users have observed. I have submitted bug 798162 to document this. 

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Evelyn Yamanaka <evelyn.yamanaka at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri Apr 09 04:20:56 EDT 2021
To: Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
Cc: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Autofill Oddity

This has been happening to me as well since 4.4.

It seems input is still being read by GnuCash, but any response to the
input (e.g. updating the transfer account list or even echoing the
characters typed) is being blocked. I've found that pressing tab to
move to the next field, then pressing shift-tab to move back to the
transfer account list "fixes" the problem and allows me to type and
get autofill working as expected. For me, this is more convenient than
reaching for the mouse.

Note that GnuCash does not visually respond to tab and shift-tab (e.g.
cell highlighting does not update) when it gets into this frozen
state. But I'm fairly certain the active fields are changing behind
the scenes because the tab + shift-tab sequence seems to reset the
transfer account input to a working state.



On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:42 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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