Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog

2009 was a good year. I finally got the first beta of Behold out. Although the beta has a few kinks to work out, I know I’ll clean those up in short order and we’ll be on our way to version 1 that will lead into version 2 and editing.

I couldn’t have been more pleased and surprised to read that yesterday Tamura Jones gave Behold an “honourable mention” for the 2009 GeneaAwards in the Most Improved Product of 2009. RootMagic 4 won that category and they definitely deserve the top honor with all the improvements they’ve made this year. See the Awards at: http://www.tamurajones.net/GeneAwards2009.xhtml (note: Internet Explorer cannot view the page. You’ll have to use a browser like Firefox or Google Chrome).

So what can I say about the next decade (and I know there are purists who don’t believe the next decade is starting, but personally, I find the “1″ in “2010″ quite significant). Well, if I might be so brash as to predict that by then, most people would have got rid of their “good enough” genealogy programs, and we’ll have had a significant number of computer genealogists migrate from their inefficient forms based systems to the friendlier and easier word processing model that Behold will introduce.

Ten years from now, I should have succeeded to have gone through my boxes of family data, and have them all entered (using Behold) into a complete and very useable personal family history. I can hardly wait.

I wish each and every one of you a healthy and happy New Year and many more after that.

Thought I tie this up with the final display I came up with when reporting an exception. First this is what I started with in the last beta, which was Windows style and modified a bit from the default that came with EurekaLog:

And after a week of fiddling, I guess I’m happy with the way it looks now:

When I release the next beta, we’ll see if this implementation does not prove to be problematic like the last one. If so, I’ll have to either rethink it again, or remove it.

Just a followup to my last post. The Sendto method started NOT calling up my default email program. It’s weird that at first it was okay and later it seemed to permanently change to always call up Outlook when my default program is Windows Mail.

So it’s back to MailTo. We’ll try the new scheme in the next beta. If it doesn’t work out right, I’ll fix it or take it out.

But now there’s still a couple of important bugs still left to squash before the next beta release.