This issue was noted quite some time ago. The fundamental problem is that the single character for the flag state is what is actually stored in the data base. Reordering of flags and other flag state label operations on these built-in flags were not prohibited as they should have been. Hence the design/settings of flags in HRE has been modified. RobinL On 06-Jan-18 10:24 AM, Michael J Hannah wrote: > Bruce W Fairhall wrote: >> I know that a while back when I changed the sequence of the Living >> Flag >> values from ?,N,Y I caused a problem, and one of the members of this >> list pointed out the error. > > Hi Bruce, > > As others have reported, the issue is with changing values of Standard > Flags, such as your Living Flag. If you are using the default TMG > Language of English (U.S.) the program will prevent you from doing > this. But if you are using an alternate language, e.g. English > (U.K.), TMG will think that you are "translating" the values to > characters with more meaning in that language. But the "meanings" of > the values in the order in English (U.S.) will remain. > > For more details see the topic in my book about Flags and Languages: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#FlagLanguages > > Michael > > P.S. Good luck on your talk. You might want to review both Terry's > several pages about Flags starting at: > http://tmg.reigelridge.com/basics-flags.htm > > and my full section on this topic at: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#Flags > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Robin Lamacraft, Adelaide, Australia
Bravi! -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robin lamacraft Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 5:24 PM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List; Michael J Hannah Subject: Re: [TMG] Intact Flags This issue was noted quite some time ago. The fundamental problem is that the single character for the flag state is what is actually stored in the data base. Reordering of flags and other flag state label operations on these built-in flags were not prohibited as they should have been. Hence the design/settings of flags in HRE has been modified. RobinL On 06-Jan-18 10:24 AM, Michael J Hannah wrote: > Bruce W Fairhall wrote: >> I know that a while back when I changed the sequence of the Living >> Flag >> values from ?,N,Y I caused a problem, and one of the members of >> this >> list pointed out the error. > > Hi Bruce, > > As others have reported, the issue is with changing values of Standard > Flags, such as your Living Flag. If you are using the default TMG > Language of English (U.S.) the program will prevent you from doing > this. But if you are using an alternate language, e.g. English > (U.K.), TMG will think that you are "translating" the values to > characters with more meaning in that language. But the "meanings" of > the values in the order in English (U.S.) will remain. > > For more details see the topic in my book about Flags and Languages: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#FlagLanguages > > Michael > > P.S. Good luck on your talk. You might want to review both Terry's > several pages about Flags starting at: > http://tmg.reigelridge.com/basics-flags.htm > > and my full section on this topic at: > http://www.mjh-nm.net/STYLE.HTML#Flags > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Robin Lamacraft, Adelaide, Australia The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message