Prefetching drop down entries when adding transaction about waterfly-iii HOT 3 CLOSED

The autocomplete is done completely server-side, yes. Obviously on bad connections this might cause some issues.

I can try to put in a delay, but not sure if this wouldn't be too disturbing in most circumstances (assuming you have somewhat good mobile internet). I will experiment a little bit with it in an upcoming beta version.

I could shoot the query right away and then show the results if there was no further input for 500ms. The overhead of the queries should be pretty minimal.

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After playing around a bit, I couldn't find an option that feels "natural" in good internet environments 😞 Might need to play around a bit more, but so far every delay just feels... strange.

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After playing some more (sorry for the long delay), I think I found the best way: The requests are still send instantaneously, but the results are not progressed if a new letter is entered before the answer arrived. This should prevent jump-arounds while not introducing a fake latency with a forced wait, which makes for a way better flow on fast networks.

I'll implement this for the text fields on the transaction page in a future release.

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