some papercuts from master branch

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 12:25 AM Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney-devel <
kmymoney-devel at kde.org> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Yeah, maybe that helps. I'll watch for reoccurrence.

>
>
> > > > 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?
>

I see. We may want to adjust the tab order then inside setShowAccountCombo
instead, to remove or add the accountCombo to the front of the order
depending if it's visible or not.

No, I didn't use a modified build, have been testing master branch for the
past couple of weeks.

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>
> Thomas Baumgart
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