[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[David H]

Working as intended here on Windows 10, will also try Win 11 shortly, no
freezing, gibberish works also :-)

Cheers David H.

On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 at 11:54, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Steve,
>
> There is AFAIK no general way to turn off auto-completion but when it is
> initiated and highlights a transaction which it thinks is a match, there
> is a
> popup "Don't autocomplete" above that first matching transaction which
> allows
> you to choose not to autocomplete by clicking on it.  The behaviour you
> describe
> with "A-T" and "U-Z" doesn't occur in V5.3 built on Linux (Mint 21.3) so
> it may
> be a Windows library problem rather than the GnuCash code itself.
>
> You could raise a feature bug requesting the option of disabling
> autocompletion
> completely or even on a register by register basis.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 18:15 -0700, Steve Miller wrote:
> > Window 11 user here.  I finally upgraded to the 5 series, 5.3
> specifically.
> > It all works great EXCEPT the autofill on the description in the
> register.
> > I wish there was an option in the preferences to turn that OFF.
> >
> > I've spent more time playing around with that than I care to remember...
> > things I experience with it?
> >
> > If I type any letter A-T, the list of prior descriptions pops up, but if
> I
> > type a letter U-Z it freezes.
> >
> > if I type gibberish really fast when I get into the description box, I
> can
> > make the gibberish appear (not that that is useful!)
> >
> > But if i try to type anything else, it generally (85%) of the time, will
> > freeze when I get to the second letter.  Then i have to delete the entry.
> >
> > I've tried re-downloading 5.3, I've tried re-starting GnuCash repeatedly,
> > I've rebooted, I've changed the size of window for GnuCash, so I dunno,
> I'm
> > about to go back to version 4.14 or whatever I've been using for past
> > several years.
> >
> > I just wish there was a way to switch that "feature" off...  I can't get
> it
> > consistently, or most of the time to work.  I'm quite happy manually
> typing
> > in descriptions...
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