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"Obfuscate". I love that word. It sounds like you're swearing when you say it. The exporting has been going pretty well. Then I saw that the last alpha did not make URL's or e-mail addresses work when exported to HTML for the web. So it wasn't too hard to program those in. What immediately became apparent ...

Print Preview and Printing worked out pretty well. I got through it in about an hour and a half. I'm pleased it wasn't that much slower than the old way. For my very large test file, it previously took about 25 seconds to bring up the Print Preview. Now it takes 45 seconds. And there is optimization I can do ...

The last little bug in Searching is fixed. It wouldn't highlight some searches on the way back. This was tricky because the cause was not what I expected. Going backwards, I had to set it to start at the end of the current block of text. But the last item was sometimes my invisible text. In that case, the ...

I've made great performance improvements that you will see when the Beta is released. It is all due to virtualizing Richview and not generating the entire Everything Report at program startup. Instead, only the piece you need to see is generated. For my large test GEDCOM (24 MB, 100,000 people), it has ...

Whoops. What happened? I recently posted 2 down, 3 to go. But I found one other major glitch caused by the virtualization. There was my command that hid or displayed the tags you didn't want to see, as well as the one that hid or displayed reference descriptions. They both still worked, hiding and ...

I've always had a penchant for probability. I've loved figuring out odds and chances of things. That's why I took my undergraduate degree in Statistics before I went on into Computer Science. Today I had the utmost pleasure in going to a lecture at the University of Manitoba by Jeffrey Rosenthal, a visiting ...

I made quick progress on reimplementing my Find function, until I ran into a snag. Somehow the Find wasn't correctly ignoring Behold's hidden text. Behold will hide all the tags you're not interested in. The Show/Hide button will easily make them appear or disappear as you desire. When they are shown, they ...

It doesn't look like any of these 5 will be easy. But, the Forward/Back keys now appear to be done and (mostly?) working. I say mostly, because I'm sure there are a few bugs still left in some strange cases I have not yet tested. Hopefully, those will come out in the Beta and I'll squash them all. I had ...

Hop over to The Fun Theory and watch the three videos there. It's a very interesting concept that makes eminent sense. This is actually an initiative of Volkswagen. They've been very innovative in their advertising on TV lately (great commercials!) and this initiative may be an attempt for them to raise ...

I really wanted Behold to be able to get certified for the Windows Logo. I tried when Vista came around. But Microsoft frustrated me in my attempt. I've been thinking about trying again for Windows 7. But I encountered a very eye-opening post about it at Successful Software, a blog by Andy Brice that I ...