>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. >5. Edit Individual. >Again I see no Icons at all on my screen. It seems that I have heard others say something similar. Is there anyone out there who is getting icons? I can't figure out why they would not appear on the screen. The icons get compiled right into the program itself and look just fine on my computer. >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. The hyperlink jumps are part of the TX OCX and the one thing I don't like about it is the little up-arrow when you go over a persons name. I would like to change it to a hand like on the Web but I have no control over that. >6. Edit Event >I propose to indicate clearly that FreeFormat means in fact FreeFormatDate. Maybe so, but I thought the BOX labeled DATE which boxes in all the date information indicated that. Maybe I've got to set the box off more with a different color or bevel. >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. It supposedly starts with whoever was at the top of the NameSearch the last time it was used. But I think I should provide a few options for this that the user can set: * Always start at top * Start with last NameSearch person * Start with Key Individual And yes, maybe I can add some date info to the side as suggested (per Ver 2). >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. I see your points here and I've got to think about this. There are reasons why I did it the way I did. Since I have allowed a Detail to be used more than once, it follows that you do not want to have a detail note field as part of the event itself, otherwise it would not be usable by other events. Secondly, entering details on the event window will end up complicating that window and making it just as complicated as the Source window which has two lists (Ref and Detail). I will do some more thinking here, but my preliminary re-assement now is that I am not sure how to make this any less confusing. The data structure is simply more complicated than Ver 2 notes and as such there is going to be more confusion about how to easily implement it. Any further suggestions or even screen layout ideas are welcome. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com