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There are overlapping DEAs but that's no reason not to publish alternatives. Tell me about it. :lol: The GRO seems to have a number of variations, so I was adding to the pile (although hadn't originally planned it to be released). It's all about adding a new or useful feature that may tempt people ...

Already documented elsewhere in the KB, and shouldn't be duplicated.

In which case, it's simply a case of providing a link to the information in the requirement.

Also, I'm not sure of when registry keys would want to be altered except for restoration.

Is context the key here? If we were creating processes for a blue-chip company that had to pass review by pedantic attorneys, I’d probably agree with much of that (been there, done that, got the scars to prove it :) ). However, CP are a company with two employees and a single product used almost en...

OK, incoming essay as promised :D Mandatory Requirements General, as they are mandatory, use the term MUST or equivalent, no use of SHOULD or similar. Point 1: Should state what those specific FH keys are for clarity and removal of doubt. Point 2: Seems reasonable. Point 3: Unclear what 'more than o...

Is this article a good place to describe plugin lifecycle processes such as: How to link plugins to FHUG for one-off temporary use and beta-test versions. How and when to disable those links. How to add/update plugins via the Plugin Store (some of the Draft/Review options are not very clear). How t...

I have 30+ headstone/memorial sources I created manually, which are 'mostly' consistent. I'd be happy with them being called Memorial Inscriptions, I'd probably convert the ones I already have. I'd assume the usual long/short source title and customisations to tweak to individual tastes etc. I've ne...

Ah, observational skills failure
It's because I normally just hit post reply, so hadn't noticed that button on the exiting posts beforehand.

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How do you get the quotes to say who wrote the original, and the post link it came from. The quotes button doesn't do that, unless I've missed something. It's always annoyed me I can't indicate who I'm quoting when it's several posts later.

Chris, If you want to send me an early copy to test I'm happy to do so.

1.5 was published yesterday (for better or worse).

jelv v1.5 is in the process of being published. This includes a solution for the missing as-recorded names you pointed out. I went with a simple approach rather than unnecessary complications that were discussed previously, so in effect it should allow entry of all the information you previously ent...

As someone who has just done that, what would you say are the benefits of publishing a plugin rather just using them yourself. Well, interesting question. As you'd see in the thread, it started as a thing out of personal interest, as I was in software dev for 40+ years and hadn't touched any coding...

OK, a bit of experimentation later... I was somewhat confused by the apparent sticky behaviour of the radio control, as I'd set its value to be one of the toggles in the declaration. However, when I tried to set the radio.value to one of the other toggles (when restoring), it didn't seem to want to ...

Basically, when you have a radio container with toggles in it, they are exclusive, so if you click one, the existing one will deselect and the clicked one is selected (sorry, but you know that already). The selected toggle becomes the value of the radio container, hence you can access the attribute(...

So, I'm assuming the IUP - Version 3.31 manual ( https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ ), in which case the radio.lua sample code does nothing of interest beyond showing having two toggles in a radio. So, I believe there must be another manual lurking somewhere with better examples akin to what you al...

Thanks, but I'm doing the same as you, and as I said, it's setting the toggle correctly in the UI when I set toggle.value = "ON". The issue is that the radio container that holds the set of exclusive buttons, normally changes its value to the selected toggle such that radio.value is the re...

Is there anyone with some experience of using iup.toggle and iup.radio and programmatically setting a toggle (i.e. not a user click in the UI). In my case I'm restoring a saved context, but while setting the relevant iup.toggle.value of the group to "ON" shows the toggle as selected in the...

Did you realise that the screen shot I posted showing a maiden name from 1839 was from the GRO's own website (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/cert ... search.asp)? Their documentation is out of date! I hadn't, and typical of government organisation to be out of date. Looks like the simplest opti...

Suggestions and thoughts: Thanks, for those. I think some of the UI paradigm things are really for a different incarnation of the plug-in rather than its current way of working. Maybe a checkbox Include name(s) in Citations and a drop down to select one of the four formats? This would be done by de...

I've always entered the names for everybody to be consistent. Also the option at the bottom (Add Citation to Name) doesn't make much sense to me if the citation does not include the name! The Add Citation to Name didn't make sense to me until I looked at the code. It means add a citation to the sel...

Why have you removed the individuals name from the citation? I haven't as far as I'm aware, as all the input fields present in the Mikes 'Add GRO Index Source Citation' I used as the starter are still present. Also, I checked the original code and it does not include a name in the citation. Be awar...

Clicking Apply without entering any data crashes FH. This appears to be an issue with the inherited code I used rather than an introduced problem as the original basically barfs under the same circumstances. I'll have a look and adding more sanity checking than was there, to avoid undignified exits...

I put mine in the store because it was complete as far as my intent was concerned. It has some features that others of the same type do not have, and so expands on existing GRO plug-ins rather than simply duplicating. If someone were to use it and find an issue then I would investigate, duplicate an...

I added a GRO Index Entries plugin last year, but have never had any feedback from that, so I am sceptical of the benefit of adding this to the store. I just added a GRO Source Reference plugin to the store, even though there are already a couple of ones in there. I did it because I wanted a go at ...

Did this plug-in ever make it to the store, or was it only ever posted in this thread? I searched All Plug-ins but can't find mention of probate.

It seems that although the brown wiggly lines do not go away, it switches from not knowing the API functions to knowing them if you open the API file. I noticed that the API file shows red in the workspace as having problems, and when opened there are red wiggly underlines that go away after a few s...