Renato wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 7:44 pm
Hi Martin, I know the logic (or rather the illogic).
Sorry I find it very confusing for the users that you have realized these searches so differently.
Renato, sorry, but with respect to you... you
are now just complaining ineffectively without proposing any solution as to how, from a functional point of view, the searching can work.
You have a professional interest in software and you have followed the lengthy development discussions about this feature on github. There
are limitations on how the wx combobox works across the platforms that has led to this solution.
So:
1. If you want consistency with the 'old' way of searching for categories, then on the Transaction dialog just press Enter in the empty combobox. You will then get the (now much improved) Organize Categories dialog to search for and manage categories.
2. If you want to scroll through the entire category:subcategory list, then click the dropdown arrow on the combobox (or press down arrow on the keyboard).
3. If you want faster selection by reducing the size of the dropdown category list, then start typing a name in the combobox and you will be presented with a list of the categories that
begin with the letters entered.
4. It is not possible, as discussed on github, to filter on a substring of the category:subcategory:... strings by typing in the combobox. So, as a further speed up, we have an
extra capability (which you don't have to use if you don't want to) of typing : to autocomplete each level of category:subcategory as it is presented after typing the initial letters of its name.
Especially because you need a (non-existent) description to understand the (il)logic.
Yes, the Help needs some help!
Lots of things need documenting, including the above.
But this is an open source project. People are free to do whatever interests them... or nothing at all.
Nobody is obliged to fix bugs, or write code for new functionality, or do testing, or propose ways of streamlining UI, or write documentation. People give their time and skills where they can. MMEX keeps moving forward; not in a perfect way, I'd agree... and not in a way that a funded commercial product might... but nevertheless it keeps moving forward and getting better all the time.
Sorry to be so frank about this - but a complaint, without any suggestions as to what to do, especially as the topic has been discussed and worked on at great length, just demotivates people.
Transaction category entry
is much faster than it used to be, and coupled with payee default categories - and soon for 1.6.4, payee (and therefore category) matching during file import - the need to manually enter many categories will be further reduced.
I would add just one more point, and that is that we
do not actually get many questions about category selection now. We did at first, when the combobox was first being introduced but now there are very few. If there is a question, it's easy for one of us to point people towards the answer, for example by linking to this forum thread.