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    1. Re: CFTW3 Beta1
    2. Erik Helmer Nielsen
    3. I see that I have to explain some of the points I mentioned in my E-mail of 14.50 08-06-98 +0200 in more detail. I refer to the points in above mentioned mail. 1. Navigation I do not want to kill all mices. I just want a good keyboard alternative. 2. Family group. I do NOT see any Icons at all on my screen. I have checked that the person has Note and Source. He also has adopted Parents. 3. Ancestors tab. Maybe the screen could be simplified to start with say 4-5 generations and then allow for a gradual extension to more. But I still like the old Pedigree Tree !, can't we get that too? 4. Story tab. I was not aware of the facility for jumping directly to the story for another person. This makes it a bit more attractive. 5. Edit Individual. Again I see no Icons at all on my screen. 6. Edit Event I propose to indicate clearly that FreeFormat means in fact FreeFormatDate. 7. Name Search. The new NameSearch is inconvenient to me. It takes a much longer time to go through 20 people step by step to find the right one than it takes to look at their main data directly. It is OK for me to keep the detailed information as a supplement. The namedisplay should always start with the Key person and preferably with the very person, not just the same name. Now it only starts with a person being selected by NameSearch. If you select a person in any other way it will start with some random person. 8. Wittness Event. I see the problems in reversing this facility, but I must be honest to say that this feature will be difficult for me to use in the way it is implemented to day. 10. Sources. I am glad that the SourceDetail is intended to work in the way I would like. My confusion was due to the imperfect way in which the selection of SourceRef and SourceDetail is made in Beta1. I hope that this will be improved and clarified. I find that it is an unneccessary complication to put the SourceDetail in a separate list. I would rather be able to enter the SourceDetail as a Note directly at the place where it belongs, that is in the Edit Event window. I would then first select the SourceRef from a list and then optionally enter some SourceDetail information as free text, maybe in a pop up window. The window showing the SourceRef List could with great advantage be made larger when the SourceDetail List is left out. Erik

    06/09/1998 12:55:00