Family Historian User Group

... The private messaging system is disabled completely, but turning it off in user settings is belt and braces in case a future forum software update inadvertently changes things. It might be useful to put this into the Rules, explaining also that private messaging by email is available provided t...

The information had to be somewhere, I just could not find it. Says everyone who has ever used IUP... I am increasingly resorting to ChatGPT: In Lua, using the IUP library, you can get the size of the display in pixels by utilizing the iup.GetScreenSize() function. Here's how you can do it: lua req...

I usually set the size of a Dialog to HALF x HALF, knowing that will fit on the screen, and have scrollbars where needed, plus the ability to resize the dialog. However, if you look in the IUP documentation and Attributes > Global > Screen information, you'll find (if you haven't already found it) F...

Why not let IUP do the work? From the Attributes for a Dialog: SIZE (non inheritable): Dialog’s size. Additionally the following values can also be defined for width and/or height: "FULL": Defines the dialog’s width (or height) equal to the screen's width (or height) "HALF": Defi...

There seems to be a focus in this discussion on technology, rather than on behaviour. So let's try again. The Terms now state: The forums support sending private messages via email to other users who have agreed to receive them. Be polite: sending unsolicited private messages by any means is not all...

The download works fine for me; the adware never manifest itself -- presumably my ad blocker sees it off silently.

Simpler and quicker to add scrollbars?

It passes Microsoft Defender and Malware Bytes...

Hi Neil, My DMs are off so, unless you can see the email feature (I have no problem with my spam filter nuking any random weirdos), that's a bug with the forum. Cheers, Tamara Tamara, you need to turn off DMs and Email messages. image.png And I'm totally with you on Internet Safety 101. I have DMs ...

Can I remind you that using the private messaging facility to send unsolicited messages is not allowed. Whilst I am generally in agreement with this, there are times when you couldn't ask on the forum "May I PM you". Why not? I am baffled by the above statement though as well. Where on th...

Just to add, to record the equivalent of 'Source of a source', I would put 'Ancestry.com' in the URL field of the template and 'Berlin, Germany, Births, 1874-1908' in the Collection field. The template needs modifying to include those in the footnote, however.

Can I assume you'll correct the KB, Mike?

Helen; So; this would be used as a citation to a single image and create a standard Source Record associated with that single image. When one creates a citation for a "fact", it creates a standard Source Record for the single fact. I realize that all Source Records can have multiple image...

If you have (say) a photograph of an individual, you can use the citation to record its source etc. 'Betty Boop provided this via Ancestry; I don't know the original photographer and am on the fence about whether this if Great Aunt Ada or not...'

The first three I have thought maybe worthwhile offering were adding a Birth Certificate, Marriage Certificate and Death Certificate. In all 3 cases, they are a single screen entry plugins, that use the Civil Registration Certificate template. They are stable in my environment, and I have been usin...

tatewise wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024 16:00

ChrisRead wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024 14:57 Also, I'm not sure of when registry keys would want to be altered except for restoration.

See the Delete Recent File List plugin in the Plugin Store. There may be other plugins and other use cases where FH does not have commands to adjust some registry keys.

Good catch.

Print the relevant section of the Help file to a PDF printer (the one that comes with FH should work).

Point 1: Should state what those specific FH keys are for clarity and removal of doubt. Already documented elsewhere in the KB, and shouldn't be duplicated. Plus, I strongly suspect the only circumstances in which modifying any registry keys would be allowed is when restoring settings. Can anyone t...

Point 1: Should state what those specific FH keys are for clarity and removal of doubt. Already documented elsewhere in the KB, and shouldn't be duplicated. Point 4: The first sentence is irrelevant, as the second one should be reworded to state exactly how the plugin should be implemented/packaged...

Regarding Mandatory Requirement 4. using libraries, I don't see how it would be possible for a linked FHUG plugin to invoke separate libraries, which would not exist in the user's file system unless they were downloaded separately via another link. Doesn't need a link. Just copy the loadrequire sni...

For women, it's tricky as I want it to link to her main record, which has her birth surname, but also need to note her married name. I would likely use my own edited source template which would include a note field in which I could mention her surname at death. But a source/citation identifies a 'd...

My Lookup Missing Census/BMD plugins produce URL in a browser table that when the user clicks on them uploads the URL details such as names, dates & places to search Ancestry, FMP, etc. So presumably the user clicking on those URL is not integral with the plugin. If a plugin displays results wi...

I would be happy with "is not permitted for either Plugin Store plugins or plugins linked from FHUG", but what does FHUG admin think? It's a fair point, and on reflection I think it ought to be mandatory for plugins linked from FHUG as well, (although as you say later they aren't checked ...

I'm planning to add a user tutorial on Choosing and Using Plugins to the KB (it's written; I'm just contemplating whether to include a video with it...)

Macdonald says 'date of death if referring to one person'.