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by DavidNewton
04 Jun 2014 08:38
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: Identifying Siblings
Replies: 3
Views: 3457

Re: Identifying Siblings

Jane

It was easier than I thought (how often does that happen?) I simply checked for an empty parents table (in the allChildren function), and moved to direct links to the child family if it was.

Many thanks

David
by DavidNewton
04 Jun 2014 07:15
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: Identifying Siblings
Replies: 3
Views: 3457

Re: Identifying Siblings

Jane Many thanks. I was using a modified version of the allChildren function of your plugin to do my sibling numbering and it works very well and I do need to have all those children. Your comment, however, has put me onto the right track (i think! it's a bit early in the day yet). At the end of the...
by DavidNewton
03 Jun 2014 23:30
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: Identifying Siblings
Replies: 3
Views: 3457

Identifying Siblings

I have a problem with a numbering plugin. The plugin works fine for most of my file but I found one individual who was consistently not being numbered. It turned out to be one of a pair of siblings who had no recorded parents. It is an old file I am using for practice and I have no idea why they wer...
by DavidNewton
19 May 2014 14:54
Forum: General Usage
Topic: 'Unable Save Changes on Windows 7
Replies: 5
Views: 4082

Re: 'Unable Save Changes on Windows 7

It may be an 'administrator problem'. Try the following: find the shortcut you are using in the start menu; right click and select Run as Administrator. If that solves the problem then you should go into the property box for the shortcut > Compatibility tab and tick Run this program as an Administra...
by DavidNewton
19 May 2014 10:35
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Default date for custom event
Replies: 4
Views: 4363

Re: Default date for custom event

Mike

You are correct it is unconventional. However, I was giving it as an example of pre-filling in the date not as a suggestion for a way forward for census events.

David
by DavidNewton
19 May 2014 09:00
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Default date for custom event
Replies: 4
Views: 4363

Re: Default date for custom event

I have been using FH for a couple of months and plugins are one of the main attractions and I suggest that that is the option to take. I have custom facts(attributes) for each UK census and a simple plugin to add such an event with date pre-entered. The 1841 effort is below and easily adapted to wha...
by DavidNewton
02 May 2014 13:22
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: nil - desperandum
Replies: 8
Views: 6496

Re: nil - desperandum

Many thanks Jane & Mike. I have had another search on the Lua community forum and came up with a number of threads which discuss nil at great length. The most useful thing I got was that I was not alone in being uneasy about nil and the second most useful thing is they it has convinced me to for...
by DavidNewton
02 May 2014 11:46
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: nil - desperandum
Replies: 8
Views: 6496

Re: nil - desperandum

Tongue-in-cheek warning ON "value nil whose main property is to be different from any other value" - personally I thought any value would be different from any other value! Sorry Jane.... Tongue-in-cheek warning OFF Adrian that phrase is precisely what set my alarms buzzing and my reactio...
by DavidNewton
02 May 2014 11:08
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: nil - desperandum
Replies: 8
Views: 6496

Re: nil - desperandum

Thanks for the very rapid response. I was in fact reading Programming in Lua when I decided that I was not comfortable with the definition of nil and so I read the reference manual which is, on this topic, almost identical to the PiL. My problem is not to do with the use of nil which I understand mo...
by DavidNewton
02 May 2014 10:31
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: nil - desperandum
Replies: 8
Views: 6496

nil - desperandum

Having written a few "quick and dirty" plugins for my own use I made the (possibly rash) decision to try to understand Lua. It didn't take long for me to hit the wall with nil (although I have temporarily ignored my unease in order to make some progress). I have searched some of the Lua co...
by DavidNewton
26 Apr 2014 01:13
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Reports - formatting list of sources
Replies: 13
Views: 9231

Re: Reports - formatting list of sources

I'm experimenting here and you try this at your own risk. Assuming your Windows drive is C: open the following file in your favourite text editor, I use Notepad++ but I'm sure Notepad will do fine C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Famly Historian\Reports\Standard\Descendants by Generation.fhr This is a sett...
by DavidNewton
23 Apr 2014 21:41
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Preferences - user or machine?
Replies: 8
Views: 6089

Re: Preferences - user or machine?

Regarding multiple profiles: Internet Explorer only allows one profile per windows user and it is necessary to create new windows user accounts to get extra profiles (which is what I started to do). Firefox/Waterfox allow as many profiles as you wish within one windows user account; each profile hav...
by DavidNewton
23 Apr 2014 18:04
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Preferences - user or machine?
Replies: 8
Views: 6089

Re: Preferences - user or machine?

Hi David That is in fact what I have been doing, but probably not as well organised as yours, the nesting is getting a bit deep and my mouse control is not always solid so I do sometimes click the wrong link or meander out of the folder and get nothing. I know it only saves me one level but it is us...
by DavidNewton
23 Apr 2014 15:56
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Preferences - user or machine?
Replies: 8
Views: 6089

Re: Preferences - user or machine?

You're right that would have been safer. I was intending to set up a user purely for genealogical research with an instance of Internet Explorer containing all my genealogy links in the bookmarks toolbar and nothing else. However, I have found out that as well as IE and FH there are other applicatio...
by DavidNewton
23 Apr 2014 12:56
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Preferences - user or machine?
Replies: 8
Views: 6089

Re: Preferences - user or machine?

Thanks Mike, fortunately I am not trying to set up another user for FH as most of the settings appear to be global. That link will go into my favourites for reference. Eventually I took the 'brute force and ignorance' method and replaced the new users HKCU\Software\Calico Pie\Family Historian branch...
by DavidNewton
23 Apr 2014 12:04
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Preferences - user or machine?
Replies: 8
Views: 6089

Preferences - user or machine?

I am in the process of setting up a new windows user profile and I ran Family Historian while logged in as the new user. It is clear from the appearance of the focus window + property box + source box that some settings are 'all users', such as the customised heading for the property box and other s...
by DavidNewton
16 Apr 2014 22:47
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window
Replies: 17
Views: 10926

Re: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window

Jane. It took me a while to find the clipboard functions and in the meantime in my usual "I had failed to see what is in front of me fashion" it hit me that as I was already using notepad so I might as well copy the custom ID into the notepad window ;)

David
by DavidNewton
16 Apr 2014 20:59
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window
Replies: 17
Views: 10926

Re: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window

Good idea Jane. This is a good learning experience for me as so far I am working on a "need to know" basis with plugins and I didn't know about the function to get the current selected records. I will work on that one. It occurs to me that if I can get the custon Id onto the clipboard then...
by DavidNewton
16 Apr 2014 19:49
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window
Replies: 17
Views: 10926

Re: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window

Jane Perhaps "digging around" was the wrong expression and possibly I am not doing things the right way. During changing a Method 2 to a Method 1 source I select the main person involved in the focus window and the source I want to change and copy the source citation text into a notepad wi...
by DavidNewton
16 Apr 2014 17:28
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window
Replies: 17
Views: 10926

Re: Showing CustomID in the Focus Window

I hope it is OK to revisit old posts. Although the existing property box status and main tab of the property box do a good job of showing the custom ID I still find myself having to "dig aorund" to find it and am still missing having the ID showing in front of the name. I have therefore wr...
by DavidNewton
15 Apr 2014 18:16
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing images attached to events/citations
Replies: 17
Views: 11168

Re: Showing images attached to events/citations

Sorry to keep coming back to this topic but moving to Method 1 is taking up so much of my time that I haven't really left it. Following all the suggestions from Mike and others I learned a little bit about plugins and have written a plugin which searches out the source media (1 specific fact type an...
by DavidNewton
09 Apr 2014 11:09
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing images attached to events/citations
Replies: 17
Views: 11168

Re: Showing images attached to events/citations

It's an aid to organization. I know that every census fact that I have entered comes from a source image in my source images folder. However, when I began this journey I did not work out in advance how to label these images and I didn't think to link them to citations. I now have thousands of images...
by DavidNewton
09 Apr 2014 10:09
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Showing images attached to events/citations
Replies: 17
Views: 11168

Re: Showing images attached to events/citations

It is more than a week since I started this thread and since then I have been entering method 1 sources for census events. Adding an image to that source is simple using the multimedia tab in the source property box and showing the source image thumbnail in reports is equally simple, when you check ...
by DavidNewton
05 Apr 2014 08:16
Forum: Genealogy News
Topic: One or more sources for an event?
Replies: 10
Views: 8123

Re: One or more sources for an event?

I voted for it depends because I always source where every piece of information arises, even if the source is an implication from another source (e.g. a census entry). Later when the information is firmed up I will remove this initial suggestion as I feel under no obligation to explain all the route...
by DavidNewton
04 Apr 2014 12:32
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Same Date Sorting
Replies: 7
Views: 6002

Re: Same Date Sorting

Mike
Sorry my edit crossed your post post. The manual ordering I was referring to was as described in the help file namely click the List in Record Order button which then brings the up and down buttons into operation (even more tedious)

David