Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Keith, Don't just take it from me. See what the 440 reviews of Family Tree Maker that average just 1.65 out of 5 stars have to say: http://www.gensoftreviews.com/?p=114 Louis

Arnold, I selected SQLite because its a multi-platform, speedy, single file database with a small footprint that’s embeddable within the program. However, the FireDAC framework in Delphi theoretically lets switch one database to another without changing code, so it will be possible to switch in the ...

Darren, Oh I see now. You just want to make sure that the program actually loads the data into its database. The "make an edit" and "undo" is to ensure that. I don't know if that's necessary. I can't really see how a program can load in an input file without loading it into its internal database. To ...

Darren: I suppose few programs would have any trouble adding one event and then deleting it, or deleting one event and then re-adding it. Even adding or deleting an individual, and then deleting or re-adding him should be straightforward as long as all the parent/child/spouse links are re-added as well. In ...

Klemens, Events without dates generally show up first, with a few exceptions (e.g. Behold tries to be smart about marriages and births and keep them in order if possible). When I say "event", I am also including facts and other information that normally don't include dates, e.g. height, eye color, number ...

Klemens, I've taken a look at the idea of putting the date before the event. But at this point, it won't work. It only became apparent to me when I checked my code and determined my data structures. You need some complex examples with dates and places and sources and notes to see the problem. I won't try ...

Thanks, Keith. And thanks Klemens for your ideas. Yes, I do agree with you that the age on the first line may be confusing as to whose age it is. I like your suggestion that the date and age be kept first and the relationship and life event be added following that. Also this would allow the "With Wife" to ...

Rob, Rich, Deckie, I really appreciate the supportive words. But really, what I want too is to get the editing capability into Behold. So it does make sense that I should not work on the lesser things, but work only on what is needed to get there. There is lots to do, but it will happen much faster if ...

Enno, Well its not really like versioning. The previous version of the data needs to be passed ONLY when (1) the program does not support the feature in question, and (2) the data it subordinate to (i.e. dependent on) other data that the user has changed. So there would never be two versions of any data. ...

Enno, I agree with you. When a data item is edited, the attached non-handled data may not be relevant or may even be wrong. But that doesn't mean the issue is unsolvable. One possible solution might be to require that the former pre-edited data be transmitted with the non-handled data as a separate event ...