Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog

Finished reimplementing Instant Organize. There were two tricky parts.

First, when you right-click, the cursor needs to detect where you are in the document. This used to be done by what were called Checkpoints in RichView. I had previously set Checkpoints up throughout the document. But now the entire document is not loaded at once, and I needed to keep track of locations in the program but outside of RichView. So it was a matter of hooking up to these new locations, rather than Checkpoints.

Second was the Instant Organize history that is saved. This used to save the IDs and names of the individuals for each of the last 10 IO’s that was performed. The new locations were now both individuals and families, so changes were required here.

Instant Organize is one of the very unique functions of Behold. I don’t know of any other genealogy programs that can allow you in one click to quickly create all the family tree and all information about and ONLY about an individual or a couple.

This only took a few days to do. Next number two.

I’ve rewritten the future plans for Behold. The important steps are now the priority, and all the small things that are blocking the way are now secondary.

I’ve taken long enough, and it’s now time to take the expressway and make it happen. Beta in November. Version 1.0 in April, and Version 2.0 (and Editing!!) by the end of December next year.

Let’s do it!

It looks like I just may have actually squashed it and I’m quite ecstatic. Finally it’s onward again.

Herb’s comment on my last blog entry made me rethink my Beta release plans. I was going to release it missing some functionality that was in the Alpha. But it would, as Herb says, appear “crippled”.

So I’m now going to add the back/forward, find, print/preview, and export to rtf/html back in before going Beta. I’ve updated my future plans to suggest a release date of November for the beta. Let’s see now if I can do that.