[GNC] Transfer Funds Dialog

[David T.]

Hello,


I have long been bothered by the Transfer Funds dialog when it is 
triggered from within an ongoing transaction. An example of this is when 
one purchases or sells shares of a mutual fund from a brokerage account, 
or when one withdraws cash in a currency different than the account from 
which the withdrawal is made.


The dialog that pops up (image attached) is repurposed from the generic 
Transfer dialog; most of the transaction prompts are disabled, and only 
the Currency transfer prompts are active. Every time I am accessing this 
dialog in this way (whether it is through a cash withdrawal or a 
purchase/sale of shares), I KNOW the other amount. But the dialog ALWAYS 
defaults to a wacky Exchange Rate that is inevitably wrong. I am forced 
to change over to the "To Amount" prompt in order to use the data point 
I have. Adding annoyance to this: the Amount box is disabled until I 
precisely click the radio button to select that option. Oh, and neither 
of these buttons has a hot key that would allow me to quick select them.


One question I have is this: Is there *any* circumstance under which a 
user would want or need to use an exchange rate in the form of an 
arbitrary fraction? I cannot imagine any such situation, but I admit 
that my perspective is extremely limited on this.


I am not a programmer, so I won't be able to change the behavior of this 
dialog myself, but it sure would be nice if I could:

a)  change the default to use To Amount on my machine,

b) allow the use of hot keys for these prompts, OR

c) click directly in the amount field and have the radio button change 
selection.


David T.
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