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- Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transcribe Feature
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3093
Transcribe Feature
Hi Lesley, Another hint for you on your BDM certificates: If you have dragged a marriage certificate into Fred's Pictures panel and you want it to also appear in his wife Mary's Pictures panel then drag it from Fred's Pictures panel onto Mary's box in the context diagram. Wedding Photos and Group Pi...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transcribe Feature
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3093
Transcribe Feature
Originally posted by Lesley The Transcribe Feature on imported pictures eg my BDM certificates is fantastic! I am now adding all my cetificates for everyone that I have them for ....as well as a photoand sometime smore for each person cant wait to show it off to my brother when he comes out from UK...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:55 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
QUOTE The two pane approach used to distinguish between suspect vs. confirmed data potentially results in confusion. UNQUOTE
It may result in confusion for some but clarity for others.
It may result in confusion for some but clarity for others.
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:50 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Back and Forward buttons
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2680
Back and Forward buttons
Navigation 1. If you have made NO CHANGES since you changed the Focal Person then Command Z will undo back to the previous Focal Person BUT watch out if you have also made changes to the current Focal Person. 2. The drop-down listbox at the LH end of the Toolbar contains a list of previous Focal Pe...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:43 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Fonts styles - a bug.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4011
Fonts styles - a bug.
In which field are you trying to bold a word?
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:37 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
QUOTE The existing roster of names and user ID's alone, which is not accompanied by additional biographic data, and which must continually be toggled to drop down the list of names, seems of limited practical value. UNQUOTE The Search Field in the Toolbar is intended to be used to select a new Focal...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:32 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Originally posted by Douglas The Comments field is intended to be used as a scratch pad to record information that is suspect, unconfirmed or whatever The two pane approach used to distinguish between suspect vs. confirmed data potentially results in confusion. Why not follow the prevailing industr...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:24 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Hi Douglas, Putting a full list of people in one of the tabViews is not really appropriate because all of the other 12 tabviews in the bottom half of the main window are related to the current Selected Person in the context diagram. I will have a look at making it a floating window that is a child o...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:19 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Comments In the iFamily for Tiger database each person has a Comments field as well as a Notes field. The Comments field is intended to be used as a scratch pad to record information that is suspect, unconfirmed or whatever. When you are happy that a piece of data is valid you can then cut and past...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:02 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Originally posted by Douglas Actually, the proposed " tab-view" option would be more user friendly, providing a much richer array of data than the pull-down view. Names compiled by the pull-down view presently are confined to a very small viewing area. Moreover, one must manipulate the pull-down ea...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:42 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Originally posted by Chris Knight Douglas, You already have a cascading list of every one in the file - just hit the space bar after clicking in the search box at top right. You can order the list by ID or name. It would however be useful to be bale to choose first or family name as the sort parame...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:08 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Tabbed views
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6371
Tabbed views
Originally posted by Douglas As presently configured, iFamily has a row of 12 tabs located across the bottom of the GUI. A) of what practical use is the " comments" tab? Doesn't the " notes" tab perform the very same function, i.e., to store random comments? B) suggestion: because it seems redundan...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:01 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Images in reports
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9850
Images in reports
Originally posted by Douglas Another suggestion which impacts the visual impact and user functionality: Is there a way to resize the iFamily main window so that the window STAYS resized from session to session? For example, I read that one particular application (Omniweb) has an option, located und...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:33 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Back and Forward buttons
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2680
Back and Forward buttons
Originally posted by Chris Knight
It would be a big help if there were back and forward buttons and/or a right-click context menu item that allowed one to go back to the previous view (focal person) in the diagram.
It would be a big help if there were back and forward buttons and/or a right-click context menu item that allowed one to go back to the previous view (focal person) in the diagram.
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:17 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Fonts styles - a bug.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4011
Fonts styles - a bug.
Originally posted by Chris Knight
When trying to make a word bold, if I select it and then try to bold it, the whole piece of text goes bold and similarly for other styles.
When trying to make a word bold, if I select it and then try to bold it, the whole piece of text goes bold and similarly for other styles.
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:15 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Adding New sources
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2621
Adding New sources
Originally posted by Chris Knight When adding a new source, it would be helpful if focus shifted to the new source. I find that normally, I will have a piece of text on the clipboard to paste as a note for the new source and I find that I forget to highlight the new source first and end up pasting ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:36 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Images in reports
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9850
Images in reports
Originally posted by Chris Knight Keith, iFamily is not on Cyndi's list - are you going to submit it there? My own genealogy site is still listed in the " what's new section" after three years! However, it did get me a lot of hits initially, mainly I think because it promoted my Google ranking. Chris
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:43 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Images in reports
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9850
Images in reports
Originally posted by Douglas We have a complaint from USA that iFamily for Tiger is being kept a secret and is only available to a select group of Mac users who sort of stumble across it. Actually, there was no complaint. Rather, you are thinking of my friendly suggestion which was to " get the wor...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:55 am
- Forum: Previous Versions and New Features
- Topic: What's New in V1.203
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3768
What's New in V1.203
What's New in Version 1.203 1. The Ancestors/Descendants Diagram Some enhancements have been made to this diagram based on your feedback, such as: (a) A Size to Width button has been added to the toolbar. (b) A BDM (Birth Death and Marriage) button has been added to the toolbar. (c) Minor paginatio...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:00 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Images in reports
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9850
Images in reports
Thanks Les, Just finishing a Family Group Page that includes summary info for each person in a family group with their default pictures - should be finished on Monday or Tuesday - will email it to you as soon as it is ready. The idea is that it can be used in addition to the existing reports as a pr...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:30 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Images in reports
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9850
Images in reports
Originally posted by cosmo Keith I love this program if possible would like to see when you print out a report to be able to include the image of the person eg as default image as I can see you can have lotsof each person ......I may have missed this capability I love that I can also have my BDM ce...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:36 pm
- Forum: iFamily Help
- Topic: IFamily on Intel iMac
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4595
IFamily on Intel iMac
Originally posted by cosmo Just to let you now as I have seen no mention of it iFamily for Tiger works fine on my Intel iMac I have only been using for a couple of hours and find it a very smooth easy to use genealogy programe many thanks Keith you have got a winner here ....and soooooo good to see...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:02 pm
- Forum: Gedcom
- Topic: Gedcom Export Options including privacy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4629
Gedcom Export Options including privacy
Originally posted by Chris Knight Keith, When exporting a file as a gedcom, it would be useful to have more control over the exported file. 1. I should like to be able to choose the name of the file to be exported - at present iFamily just picks up the name of its own proprietary filename and appen...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unrecognized GEDCOM Code
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3197
Unrecognized GEDCOM Code
iFamily for Tiger , as with other Genealogy software uses some Custom Gedcom tags for data that is not defined in the list of standard Gedcom Tags. We try to avoid using Custom Gedcom Tags but the one you mention is for Comments that can be entered into iFamily for Tiger . This allows the user to t...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unrecognized GEDCOM Code
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3197
Unrecognized GEDCOM Code
Originally posted by Chris Knight I am using version 1.202 I am delighted to be able to export a gedcom and use it with my web based software (phpGedView and The Next Generation) - super! phpGedview complains slightly about an unrecognised code, present in all records and typified in this message "...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:37 am
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Export of Gedcom
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3251
Export of Gedcom
Originally posted by Anne McLean(Guest) Hi Keith a query on the gedcom export. It would appear that on export of people in diagram that the entire source list is going with the gedcom. i.e. I exported a gedcom and it exported 90 source IDs for 8 people. I noticed that when I imported a new gedcom I...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Printing Not a Problem
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3859
Printing Not a Problem
Originally posted by annemac
Hi Keith
Printing not a problem, using GCC 1000 dpi postscript printer. All well within page area.?
Cheers
Anne
Hi Keith
Printing not a problem, using GCC 1000 dpi postscript printer. All well within page area.?
Cheers
Anne
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Having fun
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3153
Having fun
We could perhaps have a Lyrebird icon in here somewhere NO WAY. Much as I love lyrebirds they are famous for their mimicry and we intend that iFamily for Tiger will become a success for exactly the opposite reason. How about a sleeping tiger? or a sleeping leopard? ::) maybe something like [font=Co...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Having fun
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3153
Having fun
Originally posted by annemac Hi Keith As I remarked earlier, enjoying the trip with this genealogy program. We could perhaps have a )Lyrebird :o icon in here somewhere, have my thinking cap on. With over 9,000 people now in iFamily, adding new people all the time, creating my photos and certificate...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:03 pm
- Forum: Enhancement Requests
- Topic: Ancestors and Descendants Diagrams
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3182
Ancestors and Descendants Diagrams
As an example, Chris sent me an email after he had loaded Version 1.202 and here is the reply Hi Chris. It does print OK on my Canon i965, although as you say the scaling factor is ignored. This is a pity at present since the RxCx number at the top of the page does not appear fully on the print-out ...