[Kmymoney-devel] Payee completion - still having problems

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:25 PM, allan <aganderson at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/07/10 13:39, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
> I've been trying this, and what I see is more like how Tony describes it.
>
> But, I got interrupted by a reproduceable crash.
>
> 1) Create a new transaction.
> 2) Enter the first three letters of a payee that has two possibilities.
> 3) Hit TAB.
> -- The first of the two possibilities is selected and the cursor moves
> to category.
> 4) I don't wan't the first, I want the second so double click the payee
> name to select it.
> 5) Hit Delete.
> --  KMM crashes with Segmentation fault and no BT.
> 6) Repeat from top and it crashes every time.
>
> Variation A
> 4a) The first is Tesco Garage, the second is Tesco.  Highlight Tesco
> Garage and type 'tes'.
> 5a) Click Enter twice (the first just removes the payee options.
> 6a) To the message 'Do you want to add tes as payer/receiver ?' select No.
> -- KMM crashes as above.
>
> Variation B
> 1) Create a new transaction.
> 2) Enter the first three letters of a payee that has just one possibility.
> 3) Hit TAB.
> 4) As for Tony, move cursor to end of correct payee name and hit Enter.
> -- The transaction is entered with just date and amount 0.00, with blank
> payee.
>

Please file a bug for each of the crashes, WITH the backtrace.

What are you settings regarding "Use Enter to change between fields".
I only use Tab to change fields, and Enter to save the transaction.