Re: Several MD issues that have bugged me a bit

I hate to say it, but you should post these to the "new forum", 
whatever it's called and wherever it is. MD support is responding 
there, whereas here, Sean might pop in once in a while. I plan to 
keep on participating here, but I'll be in The Other Place when I 
want MD support to hear it.

At 5/23/2011 10:42 PM -0500, Gordon Alley wrote:
>After selecting my investment account, I click Add Security in the
>Securities Detail panel. For some reason, this takes me to the Account Info
>for the first security already in my data file, where I have to click on the
>New Security button to open the New Security window on top of the Account
>Info window (seems like Add Security should take me to New Security
>directly, but I digress).

"Add Security" means add a security to this investment account. The 
popup menu includes all securities that you have ever added to any 
investment account, so that you can use the same security in multiple places.

"New Security" means to enter the information for a security which 
you've never used and therefore is not in the popup.

I agree that this is rather confusing. Possibly just better labeling 
would be enough. From an IT person's point of view, I would make the 
list of "candidate securities" completely separate -- before you add 
a security to an account, you first go to the "candidate securities" 
page and add it there. But I can see that this would probably be 
worse for the majority of users. So I think this needs to be 
re-thought, but I'm not sure what direction I'd recommend.

I haven't tested your focus problem. I add securities so seldom that 
I just don't care. Anyway, MD still has quite a few focus problems 
scattered all over, though I have the impression that the number has 
gone down gradually.

>Another issue: When using the search textbox at the top left of the main
>window, I would like to be able to press ESC to clear the search, rather
>than being forced to click on the X. That's the way Spotlight works, and
>other similar search textboxes.

Um ... search box in the top left? The only search box I see is in 
the top right, and this being a Java application I don't think Mac vs 
Windows is the difference. If you meant top left, then what page are 
you on? If you meant top right, when I hit escape, the search box 
clears as expected. I'm on Java 1.6.0_25, but it's been this way 
since the search box was added (MD2010?). If you're on a 
significantly older Java, that might be relevant. Windows vs Mac 
might matter here too.

Edward