Hi Jean, On Mon, July 13, 2020 2:25 pm, Jean Laroche wrote: > Hi Devs, > Last night I was looking at what it would take to allow selecting > multiple transactions in the split register, and realize (if I'm not > mistaken) that the split register is not based on a tree view (in which > case it would be easy to allow multi-select, but possibly tricky to do > the right thing after that).
This is what I told you. :) > On the other hand, there are versions of the .c source files with a "2", > which I believe were a rework of the basic GC UI elements, and one of > them is the split register. The version 2 of it is apparently based on a > tree view and I remember somebody mentioning that the refactoring was > intended to allow multi-select (among other things I'm sure). Yes, this is the "register2 rewrite" that didn't finish. > Question: > - What's the status of the "2" versions? This was worked on more than 10 > years ago, if I remember correctly. No update since? > - How far was it from completion? Would it be a huge effort to look at > the code and make it functional? I know it can be enabled with a special > flag when we launch gnucash, what I don't know is what's missing before > the "2" versions can be adopted... Honestly I cannot answer these questions, so hopefully someone else will. I just know it wasn't feature complete before Rob Fewell (IIRC) ran out of steam, and nobody else picked it up. > Jean -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel