http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ The Behold User Forum http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/../beholddiscuss.gif Posts by Louis Kessler are Copyright 2000-2010 Louis Kessler, All Rights Reserved. Posts by others belong to the people who made them. en http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=83#post-286 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:41:56 GMT lkessler 286@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Hi Will,</p> <p>At this point, Behold only will generate the report for viewing. It really doesn't have the whole report in memory, but just the page you are looking at and a few on either side. Yes, it does allow you to edit right on the report, but that is not saved anywhere. </p> <p>Even so, Behold should NOT be hanging on you. That would be a bug that I need to fix. Unfortunately I'm trying but I can't make it happen from your description of the problem. Is this from the latest version or an earlier? The latest version is: 0.99.5 beta, 15 Jan 2010.</p> <p>I will be adding full editing in Version 2.0, but first I'm working to getting Version 1.0 out and then 1.1 and 1.2 where I will implement saving of files (required before editing). Please see my <a href="http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/future.php">Future Plans page</a> for all those details.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=83#post-285 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:16:42 GMT qbuster 285@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I noticed that there was some lack of consistency in the way that I had named places/locations. For example, some times I use England, sometimes United Kingdom. Also had a few mispells where England was Enlgand, etc.</p> <p>Accordingly I tried to correct/edit these in the right hand window. Beyond left me type in the changes but didn't accept he edits. I thought I would change the display level and scrolled up and Beyond hung and wouldn't recover.</p> <p>Promising looking piece of software. If I can successfully do simple edits like the one attempted above, I will purchase on that ground alone.</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Will </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=82#post-284 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:02:17 GMT lkessler 284@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>It should be F10 to view the log file. All it should do is bring up Notepad to view your file. Maybe Notepad is not set up on your computer. If you type Notepad in the Windows Run box, does it come up? If not, the default program can be changed from the Menu: File -&gt; Text Viewer.</p> <p>I'm considering changing this back to a within-Behold logfile and viewer which I had a few years ago. If I add this, it will be within the next few beta releases. Follow my blog for more details as they happen. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=82#post-283 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:09:26 GMT mankie 283@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I am using Beta Ver.0.99.2 when I went to veiw the log file by pressing F11 nothing happened also were on the toolbar is the log file icon </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=81#post-282 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:58:24 GMT lkessler 282@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Brett: Sometimes the simplest things just aren't obvious when you've been programming for awhile. Why I did it that way: frankly I can't remember. But now that you put this in front of my face, yes, this is the way I should do it.</p> <p>However, Tamura's review has already led me to think I should reinstitute the logfile that was in versions of Behold up to 2 years ago. It integrates the log and the GEDCOM files together in a window which would allow clicking on an error message and taking you right to the line in question. And that will be one of the next things on my list (after the bug fixes) because having the log file will help to diagnose problems better, such as the ones arising in the early beta. </p> <p>Tamura made a point to me saying I should advertise the great error checking of Behold and have a comprehensive log file. And I think that's right, as Tamura pointed out privately to me that if a program gets interrupted, the integrated error messages now in Behold's Everything Report will not be available.</p> <p>What I could do instead is on the GEDCOM/Log window, have a "Open in external editor" button, and use the default program that is used for *.txt files as you suggest, but right now I'm not sure that will be required. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=81#post-281 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:42:27 GMT brett 281@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Sorry Louis, actually meant why is it that an option under File - Text Viewer is required, rather than automatically using the Windows default text editor. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=81#post-280 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:39:21 GMT brett 280@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Is there any reason the View GEDCOM loads in NotePad, rather than a preferred text file editor, such as NotePad ++ etc. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=80#post-279 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:51:18 GMT lkessler 279@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>That's exactly it. Most people don't want to fiddle. They want the defaults to work and for it to be automatic.</p> <p>But you can't do both: Show the married name for some people AND not show the married name for other people - unless you have something to specify which ones. </p> <p>I could have the option to not show married names at all, and that would eliminate this one problem but present only birth names which is much less useful than showing birth and married names for women.</p> <p>So I've got a bit of a dilemma, and it's not completely solveable until I add a simple way of fixing it (e.g. right clicking on the surname and select "Don't show") but that will have to wait until editing in Version 2. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=80#post-278 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:43:50 GMT brett 278@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Also, I do not think most users would care for custom tags that needed to be changed in one program to accomodate another. They just want point and shoot stuff. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=80#post-277 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:42:13 GMT brett 277@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I see it is a little cool out your way - minus 30 celsius. Different to the 35 celcius here.</p> <p>I am not sure any of the how, only that it would display as Sandra Dawn [McPhee] Bowman.</p> <p>Or maybe even Sandra Dawn Bowman with a second line displaying other known names eg McPhee!!!! </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=80#post-276 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:30:23 GMT lkessler 276@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Yes. I am aware of that. I'm not sure yet what the best solution is. There are several possibilities.</p> <p>Probably the best would be to have a custom GEDCOM tag to indicate that this person never took on their spouse's married name. This could easily be implemented in Behold, but because Behold does not yet edit data, it would be your own program that would have to add it and also export, (or else more difficult manual editing of the GEDCOM file).</p> <p>From your point of view, what would you (or anyone else) like to see. I'm still very open to suggestions about this. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=80#post-275 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:43:45 GMT brett 275@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Where a female has a child but not married, and then marries, the resulting name displayes as First [Maiden Married] Unmarried eg<br /> Sandra Bowman has child with Vanassan<br /> Sandra Bowman marries McPhee<br /> Result is displayed as<br /> Sandra Dawn [Bowman McPhee] Vanassan<br /> But she has never taken or been known as Vanassan </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=79#post-274 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:35:10 GMT lkessler 274@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I want to completely redo the Print Preview display. It is what is supplied with RichView and it is somewhat non-standard and is missing a lot of things people are used to.</p> <p>I do want to get version 1 out with as high a priority as possible, so I'm leaving this for version 1.1. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=75#post-273 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:32:31 GMT lkessler 273@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I got your screen shot. The component I use must not be displaying correctly on Vista. </p> <p>That will be tougher for me to track down as I develop on XP. But I'll add it to my bug list to fix during the beta. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-272 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:30:33 GMT lkessler 272@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for pointing that out.</p> <p>That's because I load save the country at time of registration into the User database. I'll change that so the country becomes dynamic so fixes to the IP list will also fix the display in the User list. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=74#post-271 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:28:12 GMT lkessler 271@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Actually the GEDCOM file is loaded into memory. The Add GEDCOM(s) command will actually merge the currently loaded files. The original files never get locked or changed in any way, at least until version 2.</p> <p>So Behold's use of "open" and "close" is not really correct, but it is what people are used to seeing. So I'll have to weight these against each other and decide what to use.</p> <p>Once editing is implementing, Behold will actually be using the GEDCOMs as its "database" for input and output, with customizations going into Behold (.bho) files. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-270 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:41:35 GMT brett 270@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Isn't that strange. Shows as Australia with Australian flag when viewing posts, but shows as China with Australian flag when viewing User List. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=79#post-269 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:15:09 GMT brett 269@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Should there be a Close and also a Print button in the Print Preview display? </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=75#post-268 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:34:08 GMT brett 268@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Email with 2 screen shots on it's way. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-267 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:26:33 GMT brett 267@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for that. Makes me feel better knowing I am an Aussie in Australia. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=74#post-266 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:23:08 GMT brett 266@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I agree there isn't a 'need' to have a Close button or do File Close, but if that is the case why have it on the menu at all. One example for having it in at least one location would that be some users may initially concerned that the File Add Gedcom(s) may merge and not close the currently opened file. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-265 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:53:29 GMT lkessler 265@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>There. A whole bunch of IP addresses were missing from the database. I found a great way to get all the Australia IPs at: <a href="http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip_ranges/get_ranges.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip_ranges/get_ranges.php</a> so I was able to at least add Australia into the missing group.</p> <p>I'm sure in not too long someone from China will find they're showing up as Australia. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=78#post-264 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:08:48 GMT lkessler 264@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I completely forgot about those. I added them long ago as placeholders for when editing is added. I should either remove them for now, or grey them out so they are unselectable. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=77#post-263 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:01:39 GMT lkessler 263@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>That is what will become the editing window once I add editing in version 2.0. </p> <p>Actually, you can now edit the text on Behold's Everything Report. You are correct that it is not saved, but whatever you have there can be printed. So if you wanted to delete a bunch of stuff and change a few typos before you printed, you can do that now.</p> <p>When version 2.0 comes, there will be all helpful tools to help you easily enter your data right onto the report. I haven't figured out all the details yet, but I'll probably use the Microsoft Office Ribbon. Everyone who starts using that ends up loving it. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-262 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:57:04 GMT lkessler 262@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>The ip2nation database I use is not perfect. I'll see if I can add your IP as Australia into it. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=75#post-261 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:45:54 GMT lkessler 261@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I don't have this problem on my computer. Could you please email me a screen shot of this. Thanks. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=74#post-260 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:44:02 GMT lkessler 260@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I have a big debate going on in my head over what icons to include and what not to. Too many are no good. Too few are no good. I could allow users to customize them, but most find that confusing and would prefer a fixed setup selected for them.</p> <p>Now that you've got me thinking about it, maybe a Close icon would be more useful than the Exit icon. Since the latter can be done simply with the X box at the top right of the window or by the Alt+F4 shortcut, whereas the Close (and File New, which currently does the same thing as Close) can only be done by the menu.</p> <p>Of course, there really isn't any reason to do a File Close right now. Since opening a new file does close the current one.</p> <p>Good comment. I'll take a look again at the icons during the Beta testing. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=78#post-259 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:21:14 GMT brett 259@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>What does the Select Field etc do and what can it be used for. Nothing seems to happen when I try it.<br /> Brett </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=77#post-258 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:42:35 GMT brett 258@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>It is possible to type in the 'Behold is ready for input - Please open a file' Main window when no file is open. Is there a purpose for this, as anything typed cannot be saved. </p> Questions and Answers http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-257 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:31:38 GMT brett 257@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>My country after registering for forum is China. Where do I change it to where I actually live. </p> General Discussion http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=75#post-256 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:26:50 GMT brett 256@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>If the find files screen is used, once the file list requires a scroll bar, the scroll bar is only half visible vertically. The part to the right of centre of the black up/down arrow is 'out of view'. Windows Vista, 1280 x 800 res. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=74#post-255 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:22:31 GMT brett 255@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>While not obsolutely essential, I would use the Close icon from toolbar if it were located next to exit. </p> Feature Suggestions http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=72#post-253 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:12:47 GMT picbois20 253@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Thanks. </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=72#post-252 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:09:41 GMT lkessler 252@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>I don't know if multiple NAME tags is the best place for married surnames. The main reason is that it is not defined that way in the GEDCOM standard. I've not seen other programs use it for that, and other programs won't interpret it in the right way.</p> <p>But what I think I'll do is make all three an option on the Organize page for numbering. Method 1 will be the default, since I don't want to change the default for all the other users, but you'll be able to easily select 2 or 3 if you want. It will also be saved in the Behold file so you don't have to respecify it each time.</p> <p>Then, once I add editing, I'll devise some way to specify in a marriage that one spouse did or did not take the other spouse's surname.</p> <p>Louis </p> Report a Problem http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/topic.php?id=72#post-251 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:41:25 GMT picbois20 251@http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/forum/ <p>Hi Louis. I would accept method 3 where Marylin Brown should be only indexed under Brown (her birth surname). With this option we loose some information as you say, but we are sure that this person had be known by this surname sometime in her life (birth, christening, marriage, etc.) (note: we find in the report the "others spouses" of this person, so we can associate her with these others surnames).<br /> Method 2 is an alternative that I prefere to method 1. This way, we don't loose information for women who really be knew by their married name and the birth surname is in "evidence". An inconvenient of this method (and method 1), is that we also report some women with a surname they never had or that nobody know for this person. By example, my wife should be reported with my surname but nobody know her with this surname, and she never use that surname in legal/official document. We introduce, in this case, some "confusion" because we "pretend" that this person has be known with that surname. However, as that surname will be reported between braket, this should be "acceptable".<br /> I let you choose the solution that seem better for you.</p> <p>Other consideration: I thought we can have multiple NAME tags in a GEDCOM file, by example, when an individual is recorded under different spellings or when an individual changed his/her name by legal or informal process. I think, that should be a (the) way to keep the married name for specific persons, when this information is required. Ex:<br /> 1 NAME Marilyn /BROWN/<br /> 2 GIVN Marylin<br /> 2 SURN BROWN<br /> 1 NAME Marilyn /JOHNSON/<br /> 2 GIVN Marilyn<br /> 2 SURN JOHNSON<br /> 2 NOTE Married name<br /> 1 NAME Marilyn /SMITH/<br /> 2 GIVN Marilyn<br /> 2 SURN SMITH<br /> 2 NOTE Married name</p> <p>The surname of these additionnals NAME tags could be append to the birth surname; ex:: Marilyn BROWN (JOHNSON SMITH). If a lot of NAME tags were presents (in case of different spelling or other cases), only surname matching with one the the husband's surname of that woman could be listed.<br /> I understand however that your "actual" solution is "automatic" (based on family records) while this one need that each additonal name (married name in this case) be added (present) in the GEDCOM file for the concerned individual.</p> <p>Pierre </p> Report a Problem