some papercuts from master branch

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2023 05:15:14 CET Jeremy Whiting via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:56 PM Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2023.01.02 18:31, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > > 2 other issues I keep hitting that I'm trying to find the cause of to
> > > fix:
> > >
> > > 1) Sometimes when I enter a category, it gets forgotten when I click
> > > the
> > > Enter button. It's not always, but when entering a new transaction,
> > > typing
> > > part of a Category, selecting it from the completion list, then tab
> > > until
> > > Enter is focused and hitting space/enter to click it. Or clicking the
> > > button. It seems to happen more often when the transaction is left Not
> > > reconciled. If it's cleared it usually remembers it.
> > I'm pretty sure this has been reported before.  When you select the
> > Category from the dropdown, pay attention to how you actually select
> > the value - clicking on it, hitting Enter, or Tabbing to the next
> > field.  I vaguely recall only one of those lost the selection.  I've
> > probably seen it myself, and just re-selected and moved on, instead of
> > tracking down the cause.
> >
> 
> Yep, if I hit enter, then tab it keeps, it. If I just hit tab to move to
> the next field once it's the only remaining choice, it forgets. Ok digging
> in to see what's causing the difference. Thanks for pointing that out.

During a recent bug tracking issue, I noticed that the activated() signal of
a combobox is emitted *after* the focusOut event is processed. See commit
a69990c76bf. This could also apply here. Will take a look.


> > > 2) Changing the date with the keyboard on a new transaction. Up arrow
> > > goes
> > > up to a previous transaction instead of increasing the date. typing
> > > numbers
> > > does nothing somehow. Only way I've found so far to change the date
> > > on a
> > > new transaction is to click it and select a date from the month view.
> > Are you sure you actually have the date field selected?  In my
> > experience, when you edit a transaction, no field is actually selected,
> > even though one part of the date field is highlighted.  It looks like
> > it is selected, but it isn't.  Hit Tab and now one part of the date
> > field is selected.
> >
> 
> Yep, date just looks selected, but the hidden "Account" combo box is likely
> at first. Thanks, works much better once I tab into the date field itself.
> hmm.

The account combo box is used when editing a schedule. So it cannot simply
be removed.

@Jeremy: did you modify the tab order in any way or due you use the pristine
version provided by the application?


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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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