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I know my last two posts were not written in English for the normal person. But I felt I had to document a bit of the work involved in just upgrading a development environment. It is complex process full of pits and valleys. Getting through it needs a machete and a torch. We programmers struggle with our ...

Last post, I updated my development tool and installed new versions of my three 3rd party applications. Now it was time to get Behold working again in the new Delphi XE8 environment. Theoretically, if all updates made to an environment are backwards compatible, then old code would just run unchanged in the new ...

I’ve been working with Delphi as my development tool for Behold since about 1996. I’m fortunate that the language has continued to be maintained and upgraded during that time, even though it changed ownership several times. The version of Delphi that I have been using to develop Behold for the past 7 years ...

It was really nice to get version 1.1 out. In doing so, I’ve taken into deep consideration the last line from my Living Up To Expectations post a few days ago, where I said: Maybe after 1.1 is out, I should directly track towards Version 2.0 and just do what’s necessary to make that happen. It’s ...

I have released Version 1.1 of Behold.  It is now available on the Download page. The easiest way to upgrade your existing version is from the Help menu in Behold: select “Check Online for New Version”. For changes in this version, see the History page. I’ve changed my Future Plans page. I will ...

Today is Father’s Day. I spent a wonderful day with my family. What do I come home to, but three reviews on GenSoftReviews giving Behold terrible ratings. The first two reviews point to the very long time it is taking me to develop Behold. Both say Behold is an excellent GEDCOM reader. But the expectation ...

Isn’t this what every genealogist wants? I thought the problem was that when you export your data from one program, the second one doesn’t read it all in. The sources may not transfer properly. Some data may come in as notes rather than as the event information they should be. Some data may just be ignored ...

Didn’t quite make my self-imposed May 31 deadline. It was a busy week. I also got caught up in the attempt to add one last improvement into this version. I just can’t help myself. Yes, I know it’s better to get the version out first and then add the improvements later. But as I came to a screenshot I ...

So I was about to to update the documentation section for Source Details, and I looked at how I had implemented this in version 1.0: Version 1.1 was unchanged from this, so I thought the update of this section would be simple. But then it struck me. I was not displaying this information correctly. In the ...

This is fun. I’m well into updating the Tutorial. I like my documentation system Dr. Explain which makes it easy to provide screenshots using callouts and makes a extremely nice user manual. I’m working hard to finish as soon as possible. I would really like to get Version 1.1 out before the end of the ...