[moneydance] Does anyone else have a problem with this user interface behavior?

[Gordon Alley]

It often happens to me when I'm working quickly, I've opened a popup menu to
select a category or whatever, and I accidently click outside the popup and
hit some other transaction.
-Gordon

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Edward Reid <edward at paleo.org> wrote:

> At 20:00 04/08/08 -0500, Gordon Alley wrote:
> >I've entered most of the data, and my mouse pointer
> >strays outside the transaction box when I click.
>
> I agree that in this situation, escape or cancel should simply leave the
> transaction state unaltered. OTOH, I think this has happened to me a grand
> total of maybe half a dozen times in almost two years of MD use, and those
> were cases where I had finished entry or modification and forgot to
> record.
> Why? Because I never use the mouse to record; I hit Enter instead. Getting
> rid of the buttons to click on was great for me, since when I'm editing an
> existing transaction, only one transaction is hidden instead of two. I
> know
> that some people prefer to mouse more, but in this case I'm already
> keyboarding and never saw a reason to move my hands. I suppose the fact
> that I came from Q, which also did it this way, was another factor.
>
> Edward
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>

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