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	krk969	2011-02-26 , 16:42
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thanks for taking time out for the review noetus, I think Ive managed to cover most of your requests. The reconciliation part is not something buddy was meant for but I'll give it a thought and maybe if time permits have another update that can include this feature where expenses can be marked off as well.
But I think this newer version is a bit more polished and a complete version of buddy, yes it can always get better

read on ...

Originally Posted by noetus

Fix#1:: present confirmation dialog, and for this software, I wouldn't give the user of turning if off, because deleting transactions isn't so common, so user really doesn't need to be able to switch it off, it's better for him if he can't!!

done. available in the next update.

Originally Posted by noetus

(2) ....<snip>..... when you edit an existing transaction, when you press 'Save to Db', you get a nice yellow confirmation, but then everything stays the same! In one way I can see the logic of this, because it is not like entering a new transaction, after editing an existing one, you aren't so likely to be start entering a new one right away. ....
<snip>...
And there is a bigger problem with this. If you press 'Save to Db' again, the transaction gets entered again - you now have a duplicate transaction! The first time I did this, by accident, luckily I noticed the duplicate transaction, otherwise it would have skewed all my expenses for that month, without me realising.

You already see the logic I guess, the idea is we are editing and wont probably be adding a new transaction, so this isnt changed.
Secondly about clicking the save again and that adding a duplicate entry, sorry but I dont see that happening when I tried, can you let me know how you managed to do it ?

Originally Posted by noetus

(3) Sorting in the 'Expenses' view. ....<snip>

done, the entries for budgets/expenses/accounts are by default sorted by the start date in descending order, can be changed by clicking the header fields.

Originally Posted by noetus

....<snip>....I know you have made a manual for this software, and maybe I am guilty of not having read it, but really, with a software like this, there should be no need for a manual that the user has to read. It should all be pretty self-evident, I think.

I do not agree, I always read a manual when one is provided, cannot always assume how a software works. The reason I put in effort to write up all that is in trying to make buddy very generic the usage is not as intuitive as it could be.
but then each to his own.

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Last edited by krk969; 2011-02-26 at 20:59.

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