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Max:I believe I found the problem regarding the crash. It was due to cleaning up memory that wasn't allocated because of the missing references. I've also added missing people and families into the report and used a default name of --unlisted--, similar to what you suggested. I use the dashes around the name to ...

Further research into this bug: I am now able to make it occur in my current development version with that Familysearch GEDCOM I downloaded. It does look like the problem may be exactly what you thought it might be. I'll keep you posted.Louis

Thanks for reporting this. Any Invalid Pointer Operation or Lock Up is a very bad bug that needs an immediate fix.I went to familysearch.com and downloaded a pedigree and tried it in the current version (0.98.3) of Behold and when I tried to exit the program, it gave me the Invalid Pointer error and would not ...

Linda,There is one printing problem I know of in Behold and it is caused by a problem with the TRichview package that I use to display Behold's Everything Report. That package doesn't print properly when there are large amounts of information in a table cell. It especially has problems with page breaks when ...

Thanks John. I had always thought Behold would be more suitable to a long-time computer genealogist, so your comments about being a new recruit will make me rethink that somewhat. And thanks for deciding to join me on my journey. The road ahead looks very exciting!Louis

Yes, the first goal of Version 1.0 is almost complete: producing the Everything Report - something no other program does. Version 0.98.3 alpha has a few rough edges that I'm working to fix right now and I'll try to get 0.98.4 out within a week.But once Version 2.0 comes out with in-place formless editing ...

See my February 4th Blog posting for significant events that will force rethinking about Windows 98 support. Louis

Microsoft announces the following:Effective June 30, 2006, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me will transition to a non-supported status. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide any incident support options or security updates. Existing support documents, however, will continue to be ...

I knew someone would ask me for this eventually. :-)Yes, I'll add options to allow selection of how to display names, probably in Version 1.1 when I add all the user options.But what I'd really like to do is to handle the naming correctly if I can, so that the valuable information about past surnames can ...

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "they don't have defined parents". Does your genealogy program show these people as brothers/sisters?Can you e-mail me a screen shot of the problem, or if you don't mind, send me your GEDCOM and tell me which people are involved in the problem and I'll take a look at it. ...