[moneydance] Transactions in categories (was Flyover popups)

[Gordon Alley]

Why not make it preference to display the tooltip with or without the
modifier key? I kinda like it without any modifier.
-Gordon

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Sean Reilly <sreilly at seanreilly.com>
wrote:

> Build 612 still allows transaction entry in categories just like with
> previous versions.
>
> I think I can add a key to suppress the flyover/tooltip with transaction
> details, however would anyone prefer to use a key (like 'alt') to display
> the tooltip rather than suppress it?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:46 , Ruth Harris wrote:
>
>  I am still running 579, and on occasion do make entries using categories
>> only to move expenses from one to another; this does not violate any
>> GAAP to my knowledge - it is the equivalent of a journal entry in manual
>> bookkeeping. I do this by going to Tools-Edit Categories and double
>> clicking on one of the categories involved in the entry. Has this
>> capability been changed since version 579? I will be seriously unhappy
>> if it has been - Quicken used to make me crazy because I could not do
>> that, and had to run all transfers through a clearing account set up for
>> that purpose.
>>
>> Ruth
>>
>> David Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have not updated Moneydance for a while because I did not like being
>>> unable to delete a simple transaction from the "child" side, or being
>>> able to delete or change "children" in split transactions.  I also did
>>> not like being restricted to only creating transactions in "Accounts"
>>> but not in "Categories".  I know that blocks violations of one of the
>>> rules of GAAP, but it also simplifies certain actions.
>>> Anyway, I wanted the good (in my opinion) new features in 612. I want
>>> to comment on the flyover popups.  I think this implementation works
>>> much better than what I have seen in some other programs.  Generally
>>> they do not appear directly under the curser, so it is still possible
>>> to scroll and select, but occasionally a very large one will.  Is
>>> there a way to temporarily suppress these flyover popups, perhaps by
>>> holding down the Alt key?
>>>
>>> By the way, I running Moneydance in a Windows XP SP2 environment using
>>> Java Version: 1.6.0_05.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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