[Kmymoney-devel] A bit clueless on category selection

[Allan]

On 07/02/14 07:45, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> 2014-02-07 1:46 GMT+02:00 Allan <agander93 at gmail.com>:
>> I've had a few looks at a bug I raised in 2011 - "
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275455 The KMyMoney selector list is
>> not moved when the dialog it belongs to is moved ", without really getting
>> anywhere.
>>
>> More recently, I also found that a similar issue affecting the category
>> selector when editing a transaction, so I had another go.
>>
>> It appears that the drop-down list is not correctly anchored to its parent,
>> but I couldn't find a way to resolve that, although I did write a
>> mickey-mouse program where the tree widget was built into the UI, so that
>> approach could be a possible solution.
>>
>> Another way was to hide the drop-down if the focus was lost, so it couldn't
>> be left behind.  Eventually, I got this to work, although it requires the
>> user to hit the arrow button again to regain the drop-down.
>>
>> (To Thomas) I realise that your time is restricted, but wondered if this
>> latter approach might be acceptable?  Obviously, this is not a major issue,
>> but it keeps nagging me.
>
> I'd choose the standard way (the way the payee drop-down works).
>
> Regards,
> Cristian

Erm....  It's spreading pretty widely.  In KDevelop, the two search 
widgets - Quick Open and Outline - show the same problem.  Oh, and the 
address-bar in Konqueror.  Konqueror has a variation.  If I enter the 
initial letter of the file in the address-bar, the drop-down list is a 
floater.  If instead, I use the arrow, then that list is anchored.  So, 
I think that points towards the completer?

Allan