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What's new for 3.4
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What's new for 3.4: (1996 Mar 26)
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1. Corrected some appearance errors in prompts and made cosmetic
revisions to prompts and requesters.
2. Corrected the processing of parents and siblings of a person for
display/list/print purposes. Error found in response to several
customer bug reports.
3. Enhanced add_spouse and add_person to check for current person's
info having been saved prior to exiting the data entry process.
This saves the embarassment of forgetting to save the info just
entered and then wondering where it went.
4. Enhanced add_person to check for current person's data having been
saved prior to invoking add_spouse with the button gadget in the
add_person window. Failure to save the person's data prior to
invoking add_spouse was confusing to the user and error-prone for
the program. Several customers filed reports of problems which can
only be traced to the failure to save the current info.
5. Enhanced add_person, add_spouse, edit_person, and edit_spouse
processes to check the sex of people being proposed as parents
or spouses. The testing will prevent pollution of the family's
data. This has the side-effect of prohibiting same-sex marriages.
6. Added a warning about attempting to add or edit a person's infor-
mation with no birthdate or birth order information. Failure to
provide some hint, at least, can cause some confusion in the
ordering of the people.
. It has been determined that the program will exhibit anomalous
behavior when displaying people's information when the people
have been added somewhat haphazardly without any birthdates or
birth order information. There is nothing that the program can
do about the omission of this information which it needs to
get people correctly linked. Users are warned that failure to
provide birthdates or birth order information can result in the
data not being as well organized as they may wish.
7. Name validation rules were relaxed so that compound names such
as "von Trapp, Maria" are now accepted. Revision made in response
to customer report.
8. Found and corrected a linkage error in the Sample family's data.
9. Corrected the problem which has plagued us for so long. There was
an oversight in the program's processing (and another error which
crept in while "enhancing" the code) which caused a person's name
to be lost when adding him/her. The program was not prepared for
the possibility of a user entering a person's name and then clicking
"OK" without having first pressed the return/enter key after having
entered a person's name.
10. Found that the same problem as in item 9 can exist for entering
of spouses and corrected it.
11. The following text should be added to section 4.1 of the Family
Connections manual:
The "spouse" gadget displayed in the upper right corner of the
"add person" window has the same effect as selecting the "add
spouse" item in the "record" menu. This feature is provided as
a convenience for connecting spouses while entering the person's
data. One of the spouse's names will automatically be entered
for you when the "add spouse" window appears.
12. Add the following to section 4 of your user manual:
4.7.4 Print persons
The "print" item in the "utility" menu provides for the same
functionality as the "record/person/print" menu item except
that the information for a series of persons will be formed
and the information can be routed to a file or the screen in
addition to a printer. A requester will appear allowing the
selection of the range of people whose information will be
prepared.
At the present time, this function recognizes only the first
character of the first name and last name entries made in
response to the requester. The minimum granularity of selec-
tion is thus all the people whose family name begins with a
particular character (all the "A"s for instance).
4.7.5 Calendar
This item is permanently disabled. It is a marker for a
process by which calendar pages can be produced showing the
birthdays and anniversaries of the people in the family's
data. The program to support the feature exists but is not
included for suspected lack of usefulness. It is available
on request for those who have a printer supporting PCL
graphics (HP printers, primarily).
4.7.6 Copy/backup
This menu item provides a simple means for copying a family's
data to another destination for purposes of saving another
copy for whatever reason. A requester appears which allows
the selection of the destination directory or device.