Popups are a very inefficient entry method. You already have the Ctrl-T (Enter Transfer) popup if you really want to use pop-ups for entry.
-derek On Wed, July 1, 2020 5:05 pm, David Carlson wrote: > Back around the time the register2 rewrite was started I believe that I > suggested replacing the complex register code with a basic data input > pop-up window for the selected transaction or other input requirement such > as stock purchase, or business feature more like one would likely find in > a > database application. I will suggest a similar design change today to > whomever decides to take up this task. Unfortunately, I only know Basic > and Fortran IV, which wouldn't get me very far today, so my help would be > very limited. > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Jean Laroche <rip...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I started looking at that a little while before 4.0 and stopped because >> no new features could be added. I'm going to re-start, as this strikes >> me as a must-have feature. >> The other elephant in the room is the undo/redo support, but that's for >> another thread.... >> J. >> >> On 7/1/20 1:32 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, July 1, 2020 4:27 pm, Jean Laroche wrote: >> >> Does it not trike you as insane that we have to go through these >> hoops >> >> just to bulk move transactions? Something that should be as simple as >> >> shift-select, right-click, move? >> >> I'm not sure how support for multi-select operations was never >> seriously >> >> looked at. >> > >> > Patches always welcome! >> > >> > Seriously, it's not that easy due to the design and implementation of >> the >> > register. The register-2 rewrite was supposed to make it easier, but >> that >> > effort (started about a decade ago) stalled and never finished, so >> we're >> > still using the same Canvas-based register code. >> > >> >> J. >> > >> >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > >> > -derek >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > > -- > David Carlson > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
