[GNC] Fwd: Transaction Entry Confirmation

[peterb]

While I'm not personally in great need of audio confirmations, it does seem
to me they might be useful from an accessibility standpoint.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 4:49 PM Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the register is set to future transactions after the blank transaction
> and the cursor is on the bottom future transaction, the transaction can be
> committed but the cursor does not move off the line. I submitted an RFE
> about this a few weeks ago.
> Dale
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Transaction Entry Confirmation
> To: Jack Frillman <jcf_m_lists at me.com>
> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>
>
> NB: If the cursor is still in the current transaction, then it was not
> committed.  If the cursor moves to a different transaction, it has been
> committed.  In either case, GnuCash will not let you close the register
> window if you have non-committed changes.
>
> -derek
>
> PS: If you want the feature, patches are always welcome!  :)
>
> On Tue, August 31, 2021 4:02 pm, Jack Frillman wrote:
> > It's not a big deal I was just looking for one and wasn't able to find
> > an option like that.
> >
> > If you want to know how my brain is working.....
> > If I mash ENTER in an open split transaction it moves down to the next
> > split transaction. What does that mean? Does that mean the whole
> > transaction was entered or just the split was entered? I'm never sure so
> > I was looking for an audio confirmation when the entire transaction was
> > committed like in the program I used before switching to  GNU Cash.  Now
> > to be absolutely sure I close the split and mash ENTER again.
> >
> > On 8/31/21 3:41 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Jack,
> >>
> >> On Tue, August 31, 2021 3:30 pm, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
> >>> What's yhere to understand. I was looking for an audio confirmation
> >>> like
> >>> a little tiny beep.
> >> I think Will's point was questioning why you specifically want an audio
> >> confirmation when there is clearly a visual confirmation (by the cursor
> >> moving to the next line or new transaction).
> >>
> >> -derek
> >>
> >>> On 8/31/21 11:30 AM, William Prescott wrote:
> >>>> I don't understand.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I type the Enter key, it moves from one line of a transaction to
> >>>> the next line. After the last line, it enters the transaction and
> >>>> moves
> >>>> to the first line of the next transaction.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is with GnuCash 4.6-1 running on MacOS 11.5.2.
> >>>>
> >>>> Will
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2021 Aug 31, at 08-31 10:06:10, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
> >>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any way to have GNU Cash make an audio confirmation when a
> >>>> manual transaction has been entered?
> >>>>
> >>>> When I manually enter a transaction by mashing ENTER there is no
> >>>> feedback that the transaction was entered and I keep hitting ENTER to
> >>>> be
> >>>> sure I didn't fat finger it.
> >>>> Just a little beep would suffice.
> >>>>
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