At 03:48 PM 1/13/98 +0100, you wrote: >Some days ago I noticed a funny bug in the 32bit version when doing a >global search for a name with a German Umlaut: >I searched for 'Hümmer' (H"ummer") marking the Full Name Search Field. >Zero result. Close. Close. >Then the following message window: >'ERROR! Language file missing OR Second instance of program not allowed. >Program should be terminated.' >Ignore button did not work, so I had to abort the program. > >I can reproduce the same error on three different PCs in several >databases but only in the 32bit version. All .dll's are correct. >Language file is there. No second program running. >Does CFTW not like German Umlauts ??? :-) >Error was in ver 2.26x and is also in 2.27x. I do not believe it has anything to do with the German Umlauts. Must be something else. I will try to see if I can duplicate the error. If I can find it then I can fix it. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
Some days ago I noticed a funny bug in the 32bit version when doing a global search for a name with a German Umlaut: I searched for 'Hümmer' (H"ummer") marking the Full Name Search Field. Zero result. Close. Close. Then the following message window: 'ERROR! Language file missing OR Second instance of program not allowed. Program should be terminated.' Ignore button did not work, so I had to abort the program. I can reproduce the same error on three different PCs in several databases but only in the 32bit version. All .dll's are correct. Language file is there. No second program running. Does CFTW not like German Umlauts ??? :-) Error was in ver 2.26x and is also in 2.27x. Can someone reproduce it on his/her machine as well ? Max max.gschneidinger@zp.siemens.de
Hallo Ira When I started printing Photo Descendend Chart, I noticed there was a woman, a mother of some children, to who I did´nt know the husband, and in the box of the husband appeard the husband of her sister (adoptiv). This is the second time, I noticed such event. Albrecht Will Mail: Albrecht.Will@t-online.de
At 11:02 12/01/98 -0600, you wrote: >I also think that automatically inserting other life events before death >would be a tremendous help. Rarely do I know the marriage date to do the >auto sort. With a database of 5000 it is next to impossible to catch each >and every one to move the marriage event up before the death event.....Karen > Do the auto sort when you do the Keys rebuilding, and that will put things in correct date order. If you do a keys rebuild after upgrading to 2.27 and then you find that your events have disappeared just reinstall 2.27 again over the top of what you have done and it seems to come right. We have had the events disappear now for 2 local used of CFTW. Barry Gardiner <color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param>PO Box 427 <italic><underline>McLaren Vale South Australia 5171 </underline></italic></color> One of the finest wine grape growing areas in the world. email address's barryg@cobweb.com.au barryg@terra.net.au Motto: Don't take life seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
At 11:11 AM 1/12/98 -0600, you wrote: >How about more than one Pedigree chart? Say: 4, 6, 8, & 10 generations. > >Also, how about a utility to print banner pedigree charts? Yes, all good ideas and well worth considering. Thanks, Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
At 11:02 AM 1/12/98 -0600, you wrote: >I also think that automatically inserting other life events before death >would be a tremendous help. Rarely do I know the marriage date to do the >auto sort. With a database of 5000 it is next to impossible to catch each >and every one to move the marriage event up before the death event.....Karen Yes,t he only time the autosort moves marriage or other events around is if there is a date to sort with. Otherwise it keeps blank dates just after the preceding event with a date. All dates are treated the same. It doesn't know what a marriage or death event is - only knows to sort the dates. But will look at this idea. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
>Is there any experience with regard to the different types of GEDCOM >*export* and then publishing the data using GED2WWW ? I used the default >ANSI character set. The German Umlaut ä - ö - ü (ae - oe - ue) were >exported well into HTML, but the special German letter ß (ss) got lost >completely in the HTML pages. Try the ISO (HTML) export and see if that helps. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
>There is a problem concerning gedcom import of special characters in >sources. Ok, will check into it. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
Ed Blakeley wrote: > Hubert - You can put your photos in a different directory now. > Click on Options/Database configuration/Other and type in the > locaton of your photo directory. Thanks Ed, I must have overlooked it. I've tried to read as much of Ira's improvements reports as I could, but this one must have slipped my mind. In what version did it appear? Genealogical greetings, Hubert -- ==================================== drs. H.G. Slings drs. J.I.J. Slings-de Vries De Rikking 102 8332 CH Steenwijk The Netherlands 0521-515051 slings@wxs.nl http://home.wxs.nl/~slings/home.html ====================================
>I, too would like to see a descendant tree chart in the next version. >Right now, I export a gedcom file into Brothers Keeper v.5 to generate >such a chart. The Descendant Tree Chart in BK5 has no limit on the >number of generations. I use it to visually see my family by individual >name and basic info. i.e. DOB, DOD, Spouse and Marriage Date. > >Please consider this. Thanks, I will. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
At 09:47 PM 1/11/98 +1000, you wrote: >Is there any way of turning off the footer on each printed page. I think >that it wastes a lot of space at the bottom of each page. In the Report Window you can click on the Footer button and erase all the footer notes but it won't increase the report size. Perhaps you need to go to Report Setup and Select A4 paper. Maybe you are still using US letter size? >While I am at it, how about a descendant chart without the boxes. Nope, other than the Desc List Report. >I have just came back to CFTW after using TMG for 3 months. Best program >in the world? Well I do not thing so has some wonderful features but so >slow and outputs a little average to say the least. >Looking forward to Version 3 of CFTW, before I waste any more money on >other "best programs" Thanks for the compliments! Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com
At the Descendent Story Menu, check the "Spouse box" and all spouse info will be printed. John -----Original Message----- From: Jesper Wind <wind@image.dk> To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com <CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 10:40 AM Subject: Rel. 3.0 Hi Ira and all In the Descentant Story report, a spouse only appears as a name plus (son/daughter of ...). Quite anonymous I think - spouses are not that uninteresting in my way of doing genealogy. I used the old DOS-prof. version for a number of years. And if memories serves me right the Descantant Story report there supplied us with the spouse' occupation, date and place of birth, date and place of death plus names of parents. Could'nt at least these data be included again in rel. 3.0? Kinds regards Jesper Wind, Copenhagen, Denmark
How about more than one Pedigree chart? Say: 4, 6, 8, & 10 generations. Also, how about a utility to print banner pedigree charts? Alton J. Savoy AKA Lame Wolf Homepage: http://www.sstar.com/a_j_savo/savoy.htm ICQ : 2931783 Motto: Don't take life seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. Laissez les bon temps roulez!
I also think that automatically inserting other life events before death would be a tremendous help. Rarely do I know the marriage date to do the auto sort. With a database of 5000 it is next to impossible to catch each and every one to move the marriage event up before the death event.....Karen
Sigurd Eliassen wrote: > There is a problem concerning gedcom import of special characters in > sources. .... <snip> > The following happens: > > 1) IBM-PC Character set > > All characters come out correct everywhere - including the sources. > > 2) Ansel Character set > 3) Ansi Character set > 4) ISO 8859-1 for html > > The special characters come out wrong in the sources - but are perfect > everywhere else for all three character sets. > > I am talking about the 3 special Norwegian characters - I have not > tested all the others. > > As far as I can see from the gedcom files that are being created, the > source characters are correct in the gedcom files. So I think it has > something to do with the import routine. > Is there any experience with regard to the different types of GEDCOM *export* and then publishing the data using GED2WWW ? I used the default ANSI character set. The German Umlaut ä - ö - ü (ae - oe - ue) were exported well into HTML, but the special German letter ß (ss) got lost completely in the HTML pages. Max
Hello Ira, There is a problem concerning gedcom import of special characters in sources. As we know, CFTW 2.27x has four options for character sets during gedcom export. I have tried all four on the same database and then imported the gedcom files back again to four different databases - using CFTW 2.27x (I think the same would happen in earlier versions - but I have not discovered it earlier). I have used the same computer for making the database, the exports and the imports. The following happens: 1) IBM-PC Character set All characters come out correct everywhere - including the sources. 2) Ansel Character set 3) Ansi Character set 4) ISO 8859-1 for html The special characters come out wrong in the sources - but are perfect everywhere else for all three character sets. I am talking about the 3 special Norwegian characters - I have not tested all the others. As far as I can see from the gedcom files that are being created, the source characters are correct in the gedcom files. So I think it has something to do with the import routine. Regards Sigurd Eliassen Norway
Hi Ira and all In the Descentant Story report, a spouse only appears as a name plus (son/daughter of ...). Quite anonymous I think - spouses are not that uninteresting in my way of doing genealogy. I used the old DOS-prof. version for a number of years. And if memories serves me right the Descantant Story report there supplied us with the spouse' occupation, date and place of birth, date and place of death plus names of parents. Could'nt at least these data be included again in rel. 3.0? Kinds regards Jesper Wind, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hello Ira (and all the others), I'm very satisfied with CFTW and I'm enthusiastic about the new developements since the first version for Windows, which I acquainted some years ago. I have taken the necessary steps to registrate via Robbert de Groot, France. I'm new to this list, so I don't know what others already suggested for the future of CFTW. I do have some suggestions for the future. 1) I would like to keep my photo's in an other subdirectory, which can be addressed from CFTW. I use the photo's also for maintaining my genealogical website, so it's not very handy that they are amidst the data-files of CFTW. I can imagine that there are already people with their foto's on a CD-ROM to preserve disk-space. For them it would be handy too, I presume. 1a) In addition to this: there maybe should come an option in the BACKUP-function to exclude the photo's. In my case, I have a backup of my photo's on a safe place, so I don't need to spend much time and diskspace to ZIP them every time again. 2) I see the CFTW-program not only as a way to print reports and indexed books, but also as a 'expertise-centre' of my family. Therefor I would like to add not only photo's of as many familymembers as possible, but also record some audiofragments of their voices. Maybe there is a possibility to include for instance the Real Audio-player into the Photo-screen? Or would that give much difficulties with copyrights and so on? 3) My ancestry goes back into the Middle Ages. I've found some records which are specific to that particularly situation, such as: at what date my ancestor became a 'poorter' (burgher) of Antwerp. I don't think that it does make much sense that Ira adds all such specific wishes to his program, but maybe he can add about 10 auxiliary fields, which one can program himself with text via the language-editor. In that case it would be handy if this sort of personal improvement would 'survive' the update to a newer version. I hope this suggestions make some sense... Sincerely Hubert Slings -- ==================================== drs. H.G. Slings drs. J.I.J. Slings-de Vries De Rikking 102 8332 CH Steenwijk The Netherlands 0521-515051 slings@wxs.nl http://home.wxs.nl/~slings/home.html ====================================
Hallo, I think René Hasenkamp ist right. I suggest also an (for me important improvement). When I give the individuals into the program, sometimes, I do not know, did I wright the notice to this person ore not? Did I give him the right source and so on? The relationships between all the new indiviuals are complicated enough. It would be easier to see all the written dates in on mask. One has always to make a detour. An instant what I mean coud be mask of a Person in Microsoft Outlook (contact) Albrecht Will mailto: Albrecht.Will@t-online.de
Ira: Barry Gardiner [barryg@terra.net.au] wrote: While I am at it, how about a descendant chart without the boxes. I, too would like to see a descendant tree chart in the next version. Right now, I export a gedcom file into Brothers Keeper v.5 to generate such a chart. The Descendant Tree Chart in BK5 has no limit on the number of generations. I use it to visually see my family by individual name and basic info. i.e. DOB, DOD, Spouse and Marriage Date. Please consider this. STEVEN J. FROME Glen Cove, NY http://members.aol.com/sfrome/index.html