On 06 Dec 1999 12:18:18 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Currently however, when you delete a 'transaction' in the register,
> > you are really deleting the split. Thus, if you delete Split 1 from
> > your Checking account, Split 2 remains in the Fuel account. The
> > transaction is now unbalanced, because it doesn't add up to 0.
>
> I'm with the other Rob here :> This seems like a bug (or a misfeature)
> unless I'm misunderstanding. If I delete a split, I expect *both
> sides* of the split to disappear. If I delete a transaction, I expect
> all the splits to disappear. The alternatives make no sense to me and
> will screw up everyone's data. The current code really handles
> deletes like this? I though I had checked this a while back and it
> worked (IMO) "right".
Seems "misfeatureful" to me, too. To leave an unbalanced transaction
around feels, um, wrong.
An appropriate way to make this more approachable would be, when deleting
a split, to throw up a dialog looking something like the following:
[ You have deleted a split from this transaction.
Do you want to
[[[ Delete the whole transaction ]]] (highlighted/default-if-I-press-enter)
or
[ Just delete the split. ]
Warning: Just deleting the split will throw your accounts out of
balance; you probably shouldn't do this unless you're going to
immediately add another split to bring things back into balance.
]
It would probably be a good idea for the dialog to have some mention
of the "Scrub" function, perhaps with a link so you can view the
documentation to it...
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then I suspect all FORTRAN programs look like `firsts')" -- Olaf Kirch
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