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Finished reimplementing Instant Organize. There were two tricky parts. First, when you right-click, the cursor needs to detect where you are in the document. This used to be done by what were called Checkpoints in RichView. I had previously set Checkpoints up throughout the document. But now the entire ...

I've rewritten the future plans for Behold. The important steps are now the priority, and all the small things that are blocking the way are now secondary. I've taken long enough, and it's now time to take the expressway and make it happen. Beta in November. Version 1.0 in April, and Version 2.0 (and ...

It looks like I just may have actually squashed it and I'm quite ecstatic. Finally it's onward again. Herb's comment on my last blog entry made me rethink my Beta release plans. I was going to release it missing some functionality that was in the Alpha. But it would, as Herb says, appear "crippled". So ...

This is about the worst bug in Behold I've had to date. I've been working to solve the bug off and on for over a month and this bug is the reason why this Beta is late. It has to do with the "virtual" rendering of the RichView window. I have perfected in getting it all to quickly render, scroll down, scroll ...

That sure came fast. Still no Behold beta. One nasty bug still preventing the release. I won't go into it, but let's just say I'll either have to get it out in the next few days, or I'll have to update the dates I'm claiming it'll be out. Hopefully the former.

To help my daughter transfer everything from her old computer to her new one, I lent her my second monitor. So it's a few days of programming without two screens. After I removed the second screen and started up Behold, it showed up in the taskbar, but not on the screen. Ooops. Behold positions itself on the ...

For several weeks, noone was adding their program reviews to my GenSoftReviews site. I wondered what was happening, and last night I found there was a problem. It appeared that the Hashcash function that I was using to keep out spam comments was not working and was not permitting any entry, and that was after ...

Sorry, but the Beta was delayed by a much needed 8 day family vacation to New York City. I've always been intrigued by tall buildings. My neck still hurts from looking up all the time. My city of Winnipeg has 700,000 people, so it's not small. Our tallest buildings are about 30 stories and 400 feet tall. ...

I've done enough improvements to at least get Behold to have acceptable performance for most GEDCOMs. The fact that I was loading the entire file into Richview was the main problem. Now that Behold only loads the viewing area and a small buffer into Richview, it's a lot faster and uses much less memory. I ...

I'm really pushing to get the Beta out. I switched tasks and finished reimplementing the ANSEL and UTF-8 input so that those character sets will be read in automatically and converted to Unicode. It is so nice to input files and see the Russian with the English with no need anymore to select the proper ...