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Here's a quick and needed release. Unfortunately the web update feature of Behold in 0.99.1 through 0.99.3 beta of Behold was not working on Vista or Windows 7. The web update downloads the behold-setup file to the Program Files directory where Behold is. Unfortunately, Vista and Windows 7 do not allow a ...

New beta is out. I recommend everyone upgrade ASAP. I was not happy with the first beta. It had a number of errors that would crash the program. I believe I have fixed all that have been reported and additional ones that I have found, so the new beta should be much more stable than the previous. But first ...

I thought I'd let the readers of this blog be the first to know: Tonight I put up a new page on my GenSoftReviews sight. It's a User Choice Awards page, to recognize the genealogy software programs that are rated well by their users. I tabulated the rating scores of the programs with 10 or more user reviews, ...

2009 was a good year. I finally got the first beta of Behold out. Although the beta has a few kinks to work out, I know I'll clean those up in short order and we'll be on our way to version 1 that will lead into version 2 and editing. I couldn't have been more pleased and surprised to read that yesterday ...

Thought I tie this up with the final display I came up with when reporting an exception. First this is what I started with in the last beta, which was Windows style and modified a bit from the default that came with EurekaLog:   And after a week of fiddling, I guess I’m happy with the way it looks ...

Just a followup to my last post. The Sendto method started NOT calling up my default email program. It's weird that at first it was okay and later it seemed to permanently change to always call up Outlook when my default program is Windows Mail. So it's back to MailTo. We'll try the new scheme in the next ...

I was working on fixing the exception reporting. And working. And working... Every little alley took another twist and turn. First I had to figure out how EurekaLog was calling up your email program. Two complaints about it was more than I wanted to hear: Your debug routine fails to send the file, as it ...

I'm almost completed all the bug fixes. There is one more that involves TRichView and scrolling up with the arrow key. When you reach that horizontal line in the Everything Report, it gives an exception. There's really only about 8 lines that are needed to get this working. I've just been trying hard to ...

A GEDCOM file contains a person's name on the NAME tag. It normally looks like this: 1 NAME first middle /surname/ suffix e.g. 1 NAME John Jacob Jingleheimer /Schmidt/ II The name parts should be shown in the order given, but without the two slashes that surround the person's surname. To make this ...

These are difficult bugs I'm being given. Fortunately, I am getting through them. I had hoped to have another beta out by now, but theres a few more fixes to do first. I had a couple of those unexplainable programming occurrences happen. The worst was after I had done those two very difficult fixes, with the ...