[Kmymoney-devel] Payee completion - still having problems

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:55 AM, tonyb <tonyb.lx at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 Jul 2010 15:43:40 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> you have to press Enter on the payee list to get the previous transaction
>>  list. That behaviour changed some time ago, because of some conflicts with
>>  something else, but I'm not exactly sure because I wasn't involved in it.
>
> Open the attached file with transcation form turned off, and auto-create
> payees on. Open the ledger for Asset:bank and enter a new transaction. In the
> Payee field, type Arg<TAB>.
>
> Result in KDE3, the payee name is completed as Argos, and the cursor rests
> after the last letter. Pressing Enter here causes the previous transaction
> dialog to appear.
>
> Result in KDE4, the payee name is completed as Argos, but the cursor moves to
> the Category field. With the mouse, moving the cursor back to the end of the
> Payee field and pressing Enter causes the incomplete transaction to be entered
> in the ledger. In this case, it also gets entered with the wrong payee, i.e.
> not Argos as displayed. In other cases, I have seen transactions get entered
> with the displayed name deleted (blank) or with the memo field displayed
> instead.
>

I just tried it here in KMM4.
I entered some of the letters of the payee, pressed the arrow keys
down a few times to select the correct payee. I pressed Enter and the
transaction showed up. I selected the transaction, pressed Enter, and
the data got autocompleted.