Re: Several MD issues that have bugged me a bit

Thanks for your reply.

More comments below.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Edward Reid <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


Yeah, I seem to recall there's another forum, but I didn't remember how to
get to it. It'd be nice if they added a link at the bottom of all list
messages, but now I see that it can be reached by clicking the Help link on
the moneydance.com page. I may re-post an edited version of my message
there.

>
>
> 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.
>

OK, that makes sense. I only have one investment account in each of my MD
files, so never had the need to "Add" a security that was already present.

>
> 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.
>

My bad. I meant "top right". On my Mac, pressing ESC after I've typed some
text in that search box has no effect. I know there are other places in MD
where ESC has the CANCEL effect (e.g., while entering a transaction in a
register).

Thanks for your help. Guess I'll head over to the support forum and check
out what's there.

-Gordon

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