Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Herb, I've been contributing with BetterGEDCOM for a year now, expressing my ideas there. Even that committee has had trouble getting developers such as Bruce Buzbee involved. Maybe they're too busy doing their own developing their own way to get involved, or maybe everyone else to them is their competition. ...

GeneJ, Unfortunately, RootsMagic's default is to do the GEDCOM export WITH the RM specific tags. Like you, many people will miss that option, or not decide to uncheck the option, and there are now many RootsMagic 4 GEDCOMs on the web with them. Developers will have to know which tags to ignore when importing ...

Malwarebytes is the best program we've found for removing the majority of viruses and trojans from your computer. It has worked much of the time but isn't perfect. Another possibility is Microsoft's new equivalent called "Microsoft Safety Scanner". But I have no experience with it yet, other than trying it out ...

I think we're really lucky Embarcadero is the company that purchased Delphi. If anyone else had, or if noone had, it might be dead and gone already. But Embarcadero saw the promise in it and here we are with them pushing Delphi more than anyone would ever have expected with their RAD Studio World Tour. Look at ...

The confirmation page problem is now fixed. At the new Netfirms, cURL seems to work sometimes, and seems to not work other times. I replaced the cURL code with a hidden form that auto-executes using JavaScript to bring up the confirmation page. For those without Javascript, they'll simply have to hit a ...

I'm lucky. Being in shorts and on crutches in +30 weather is much easier than being in a long underwear and a parka and boots in the snow and ice in -30 weather. p.s. As I write this, at the South Pole it is currently -66 degrees C., -88 with wind chill.

Just after I posted this, I discovered that MyHeritage made made their API available. In it, they have their SmartMatch object. Now something like that is the way it should be done!! ... actually, I discovered it a week and a half ago from Tamura's article. ... But in that short a time, I had ...

Uwe: The tricky part is this: Some programs allow basic formatting of the notes to make them clearer. If that is not reproduced, then you lose the clarity that was intended. So I do think this should be reproduced in Behold. But then there's the other extreme: Programs that allow copying and pasting from a ...

Uwe: Thanks. I already use TRichView's hyperlinks in Behold. Implementing them for this isn't the issue. It's parsing the information that's the bigger problem. I want to display the link as text with hypertext but also the description as text. What about other attributes of the <a> tag? There's always ...

DearMyrtle: Thanks for your first comment on my blog. We did discuss markup in BetterGEDCOM and I had concluded that it should be allowed in NOTE and TEXT fields and maybe a few others. Unfortunately, markup was not even considered in GEDCOM. Including markup in GEDCOM NOTEs does not do anything to break ...