When adding a new individual and selecting the sex, why does the selector box hang open so often when I select Female? It closes when I click in anothen field, but it is annoying as it covers the birth field, the next logical place I want to go to. Also very often I select Female and it closes with unknown selected although it looks as if I had the mouse on Female. I can live with it, but find it annoying. It may just be me, but I sure see it often. On the relationship calculator why can I not select the text in the "Line of descent to Common Ancestor" window as to be able to cut and paste it into another document. It works on the calculated window. I am new to the forum: Will there be a next version of PAF? Does it do any good to have items for a wish list? If so: Wish list: Forwards button Back button (Would really be good especialy after deleting a person) Don't get me wrong, I like the programm, it is so much better than all of the others that I have paid lots of money for in the past. Best regards, Dave Vaughan

Hi Dave, Welcome to the group. I hope you will find it a fruitful resource. At 08:41 PM 9/27/2005 +0200, Dave Vaughan wrote: >When adding a new individual and selecting the sex, why does the selector box >hang open so often when I select Female? It closes when I click in anothen >field, but it is annoying as it covers the birth field, the next logical place >I want to go to. Also very often I select Female and it closes with unknown >selected although it looks as if I had the mouse on Female. I can live with >it, but find it annoying. It may just be me, but I sure see it often. I may be misunderstanding your description of how the sex field is working, but I suspect that you may not be using it correctly. When the sex field is active, that is when you click on the field and the down arrow appears at the right of the field, you have two choices of how to fill in the sex. 1. You can just type one of the letters, M, F, or U and it will automatically set the sex accordingly. 2. You can click on the down arrow to pull down the list of choices. If you put your mouse on one of the choices, it will be highlighted but that does NOT select that sex until you click on the highlighted value. If you move your mouse outside of the pull down menu without clicking on one of the options, it will not update the field. It sounds like you have been clicking outside the pull down menu rather than clicking on one of the choices. If this is not the case, let me know. >On the relationship calculator why can I not select the text in the "Line of >descent to Common Ancestor" window as to be able to cut and paste it into >another document. It works on the calculated window. This is a case of a poor programming decision. The ability to select a range of text requires the programmer to include some special Microsoft code in the window to enable the user to select a range of text. It is not a default for every section of a screen to allow the copy or cut and paste function. The programmers probably looked at the line of descent to common ancestor area and decided that it would take too much time to add the necessary code, or they assumed no one would ever want that list. I can only guess what made them omit the necessary code to allow that feature. >I am new to the forum: > >Will there be a next version of PAF? At this point, the LDS Church has indicated that there will not be any enhancements to the current version of PAF. They have been working fast and furious on a new type of family history database system that they expect will move us into a new environment. About all I can say is that it is likely to be Internet based. A tiny smattering of the new system was demonstrated at the recent FGS Conference in Salt Lake City. It showed how users can collaborate over their conflicting versions of a family history database on-line over the Internet. They gave no concrete idea of how much longer it will be before the rest of the system will be introduced. >Does it do any good to have items for a wish list? In my opinion, a wish list is invaluable. It is my hope that someone will see the light and decide that PAF is too valuable to let stagnate. It is not outside the realm of possibility that they could change their mind and reopen the development of a PAF6. If I win the lottery, that's precisely what I would do. >If so: >Wish list: >Forwards button >Back button (Would really be good especialy after deleting a person) You would need to be more specific than this. A forwards button is a browser feature which implies a program running on the Internet. I'm not sure what you have in mind here. A back button is also a browser feature, but in a Windows environment is the same as an UNDO button. I can see that as a valuable function. >Don't get me wrong, I like the programm, it is so much better than all of the >others that I have paid lots of money for in the past. This hits at the root of the problem. There is a lot of competition in the genealogy software market. The last I counted, there are over 35 competing programs available. The LDS Church is uncomfortable being involved in a competitive market, especially when they do not charge for their program. And they are equally uncomfortable charging for the product because that would create a barrier for some of the members of the Church to use the software. Their research has shown that PAF is a bit too complicated for a large number of people the program is targeted for, so they are trying to find a more user friendly and engaging concept for managing family history data. They also want to make it more universal so that data can be readily shared worldwide. The project underway by the LDS Church is enormous and is very likely to produce a system that will take us into the next era of family history record management. Richard Rands >Best regards, >Dave Vaughan > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.