[moneydance] Newbie Startup

[Gordon Alley]

Here's a follow-up to my previous message, quoted below.
I was checking this tonight while entering some investment transactions. In
my tests, the way clairvoyance works for the top-level category name is
different from the way it works for the sub-category.

When typing the top-level category name, when MD finds a category that
matches what has been typed to that point, it displays the complete category
name and selects only the characters that follow the last character actually
typed. Now if I type one more character of the category name, it replaces
only the selected (trailing) characters, and MD immediately matches on the
same category again, and again selects only the characters following the
last one I actually typed. I could type in the entire category name, and it
would end up with the proper category.

When typing a sub-category name (after typing a colon), as soon as MD
matches on a sub-category, it immediately displays the sub-category it finds
and selects ALL the text of that sub-category name, so that if I type one
more character in the name, that character replaces all the matched text,
and MD starts searching for a match again based on just that one character,
which will be wrong. For this method to work, I have to type each letter
one-at-a-time, and see if the match occurs before typing another character.
Since I'm a fast touch-typist, it's very easy to overrun the matching
algorithm and have to start over. Very aggravating.

-Gordon

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Gordon Alley <gordon at gordonalley.com>
wrote:

> The MD system of "clairvoyance" for the categories definitely has some
> quirks.
> I've found that, at any level of the category, if I continue typing
> correct characters after it finds the correct match, it may change to
> something completely wrong! This often happens before I see that it has
> already matched what I was typing. I would think I should be able to type a
> complete category path (including colons) and have it hold the match, but it
> doesn't seem to work that way.
> Also, I often cannot get it to match on a subcategory after typing the
> ":", and have to resort to using the popup menu.
> -Gordon
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com> wrote:
>
> > Katahdin <MoneyDance at intermod.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to find the cat based on
> > > the 1st letter, skips around, and ignores the subcats..
> >
> > This is correct; Moneydance only finds top-level categories with the
> > first character you type.  But once you have selected that top level
> > with just one or two characters, you can type ":" and choose the next
> > level category, then ":" and the next level.
> >
> > It's not something you're doing wrong; this is how Moneydance was
> > designed to work.  If you would like it to work differently, I would
> > suggest that you file an enhancement request to that effect.
> >
> > Since Moneydance tends to remember the category used whenever you pay
> > money to the same Payee again, it doesn't seem like you should have to
> > be re-entering the category over and over.
> >
> > --
> >  Fuzzy Fox <fox at foxtaur.com>
> >  "Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people.
> >   Why a man would want two wives is a bigamystery."
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
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Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com