0.8 (June 2006)

0.8b4 (December 2005)

• fixed problem where } and { characters in notes etc led to corrupt RTF files on export (e.g. dragging Preview/Word icon to the desktop).
• fixed bug in export-to-gedcom: incorrect links between people were being created in some circumstances when merging two or more documents which use the same GEDCOM xref values for different people
• printing enabled for Help window
• Copy and Select All commands are now available for the Help window without your having to click in it first
• Group By Census Place now shows one entry per census for each person
• added Group By Change Date so you can quickly find people you've been working on recently, or who you worked on last Christmas, etc
• better behaviour when closing a biog window with an open edit box
• better behavour when selecting another window or application when there's a biog window with an open edit box
• tree window vertical scrollbar now works correctly when root of the tree is a person with multiple marriages
• the To Do list now shows only people in the current group (those who have _TODO lines)
• the To Do list now shows CONC as well as CONT lines associated with each _TODO line
• improved performance when working with large selections (thousands of people) in group windows
• fixed bug which prevented the correct saving of documents following use of the Print command
• fixed bug which disabled checks for valid entry in GEDCOM fields following use of the Print command
• fixed a possible crash when using the limited-number-of-generations feature of tree windows
• fixed a possible crash when deleting a person from the document ("Clear" command)
• fixed a possible crash when after clicking the "Save" button on the dialog presented when closing a document with unsaved changes
• fixed crash on System 9.x when attempting to open non-text documents that have a ".ged" extension
• fixed crash when attempting to view a family tree in which one of the people is recorded as their own ancester in the GEDCOM
• expiry date now 30th June 2006

0.8b3 (March 2005)

• fixed minor applescript problem
• fixed crash when closing multiple new documents
• fixed crash when a new document is created after an attempt is made to quit the application, followed by the app putting up a Review Changes dialog, followed by the user creating a new document during the review
• expiry date is now end of December, 2005.

0.8b2 (August 2004)

• faster execution of AppleScript command "remove people from group" and of the Edit menu's Clear command when applied to a selection of a large number of people in a sub-group window.
• much faster execution of AppleScript expressions such as every person of document 1 whose full name contains "Beryl"
• new AppleScript class 'source' for SOUR records
• new properties for 'person' class (INDI records)
• new sample scripts
  • view unrelated groups
  • export GEDCOM for MyRoots (PalmOS s/w)
  • born on this day
  • born since 1900
  • ends of my lines
  • new options for the 'export' AppleScript command:
    • export group -- the group to export
      into alias -- Destination folder
      [as web site/RTF/GEDCOM] -- the kind of export - default GEDCOM
      [without notes for a list of person] -- list of people whose NOTEs shou ld be omitted
      [without children for a list of person] -- list of people whose children should NOT be listed in their family groups
      [without mentioning a list of person] -- list of people who should NOT be l isted in their parents' family groups
      [with email addresses obscure/clear] -- obscure (the default) or clear text em ail addresses in exported NOTE and URL fields
• much faster Add Ancestors To Group and similar commands
• much faster Add Ancestors To Group and similar commands
• Add Spouses now adds the other spouses of the spouses, and so on (is this nice?)
• fixed odd "bold" drawing of footnotes on X
• fixed some space leaks
  • fix for source note space leak
  • fix for leak of OBJE._ALIA.CONC values read in from a gedcom file
• web pages: fixed bug where about 32k characters into a long surname index, an accented or other non-ASCII MacRoman character would be incorrectly translated to UTF-8
• web pages: better handling of GEDCOMs which capitalise surnames inconsistently
• generated biography web pages are HTML 4.01 transitional compliant
• generated surname web pages are HTML 4.01 t. compliant
• command-clicking URLs now always opens the URL, rather than extending or shrinking the selection. It changes the selection to the URL that you click on - I'm not really happy with this - should it be, say, alt-command-click?
• command-' now opens selected URLs (previously it opened all URLs)
• expiry date now 31 Mar 2005
• outstanding problems: dragging large numbers of people to group windows v slow pasting notes onto source citations in FAM records not enabled generated index.html still not HTML 4.01 transitional compliant the 'without' options for HTML export and obscured email addresses are not done for GEDCOM exports

0.8b1 (April 2004)

• Saved preferences in 0.8b1 aren't backwards compatible with 0.7b5. If you have a problem, delete the SeeGEDCOM preferences file from your (personal) Library folder.
• Fixed bug where, in a biog window that shows a picture, footnotes would have unnecessarily short lines.
• HTML export (see separate document)
• Clearer treatment of source citations - it's no longer possible to get a blank citation. There's a longer description of Sources, citations and footnotes in the Help menu, provided you're running at least 10.1.5. If you're not, see the README.
• Expanded AppleScript support with more commands: duplicate, move and delete GEDCOM lines; delete people from document; add spouses to group, add ancestors to group, add descendants to group, add list of people to group, remove people from group; export group into folder as web site, to file as rtf, to file as gedcom; regroup group members by birth date, etc.
• Also more AppleScript properties for persons: birth year (number), estimated birth year (number)
• Example AppleScript to "fix" GEDCOMs exported from Reunion (Mac) or Generations (Windows)
• Translucent dragging of export icons, icons match user's default app for .rtf, .html, .ged, .pict (only when running on 10.2.8 or later)
• Progress dialogs during long exports
• The Clear command in the index window is no longer (incorrectly) available for read-only documents
• Translucent dragging of text selections from biog windows (10.2.8 or later)

0.7b5 (January 2004)

• The pop-up menu in the biog tool bar may be used to choose between type-select ('browser') and type-to-edit-selection ('editor') (done in 0.7b4, but not documented)
• Clicking outside an editing field in a biog window no longer scrolls back to the top.
• Will and Probate records are now displayed even in the absence of birth, baptism and death records for that person
• Adding a person to an un-grouped group window was switching the group to the last kind of grouping used, without changing the pop-up; e.g. if the user chose Group By Marriage Place, then chose Don't Group, then dragged another person into the group view, it would switch back to grouping by marriage place, although the pop-up would still read Don't group. It now respects the user's explicit setting of the pop-up to Don't Group.
• SeeGEDCOMX now implements the standard behaviour of CONT lines, treating them as hard line endings.
• There is a new "paragraph fill" button in the biog window toolbar. When a note, address, or quoted text (any multi-line value) is selected, this button will remove most hard line endings, while keeping hard line endings for blank lines & indented lines.
• The example "McCulloch" GEDCOM file uses CONC lines rather than CONT lines in notes, wherever line breaks aren't wanted.
• It's still NOT possible to edit out-of-line notes.
• Separate counters are now used for INDI, FAM, SOUR records. Previously there was a single counter, so that the sequences of cross-reference values would have gaps in them. Most people shouldn't care about this one way or the other.
• Fixed a bug in check for out-of-memory problems; this is most important when running on MacOS 8.x or 9.x. You can now expect to see a dialog box warning when memory is low - if you see it, use Save As to save a copy of your work.

0.7b4 (December 2003)

• This version fixes many usability bugs in 0.7b3, and one nasty crashing bug. Copy and pasting of events and event detail has been improved. If you're doing a lot of editing, you're still advised to save your work frequently. I've tried to stick to "no brainer" fixes this time.
• Fixed crashes which could occur when using the "back" or "forward" buttons in the biography window tool bar.
• There are a lot more copy-and-paste possibilities now, especially pasting over existing events or details to replace them (say pasting a date over an existing date, or a birth over an existing birth) and pasting multiple events (say a baptism, birth and burial all in one go - but not including a marriage, as that would be pasted on a family not a person). This provides a natural short cut for a New XXX; Edit...; Paste sequence. By design you can't paste a subrecord (e.g. a DATE onto an event, e.g. a BIRT) if the BIRT already has a DATE.
• When pasting a source citation, as opposed to a field that contains a source citation, the cited source is now correctly copied to the destination and renamed if necessary, along with the citation.
• Copy & Paste are now documented in the built-in Help.
• When a new item of information is added to a Biography window, using e.g. the Add Info command, it is now selected, highlighted, and if necessary the window is scrolled to make it visible.
• Punctuation and all labels are now selectable in biography windows, so the text in the view can all be selected, copied and pasted or dragged into emails etc.
• New Child use to create a new family when there was no selection, even if there was exactly one family in the biography - it now adds the child to the existing family in this situation.
• Source citations no longer incorrectly merge footnotes when there are multiple citations of the same source with a note or page but no quoted text.
• Source citations no longer use the wrong footnote number when there are citations with notes, pages, or quoted text and multiple citations with none of these in the same biog.
• You can now add certainty assessments (QUAY) to source citations. It needs a pop-up menu, but doesn't yet have one.
• Source records can now be attached to a family (FAM) record and such records are correctly displayed. To provide a target for the menu commands, it's necessary to sometimes display a "Family" paragraph heading when it would be prettier to leave it out.
• Source citations can be pasted onto families if one of the Family, Wife, Husband or Children paragraph headings is shown, to act as the target.
• Paragraph breaks in long Notes in RTF reports are now respected.
• Drag receive highlighting is now removed in a biography window after a drop.
• Multimedia (OBJE) records are now longer reported as uninterpreted in RTF reports.
• On MacOS X 10.1.5 or later the help window is now shown with same font & style as the default for Biography windows, anti-aliased.
• When someone is removed from the document using the index view, any tree view that contains them is automatically redrawn.
• Dragging a previously unselected person from a index table used to open that person's biog window, because it changed the selection. Ditto for creating a new person. Dragging still changes the selection, but no longer updates other open windows.
• Surname grouping in index window is REALLY now case insensitive.
• View->Family Tree now longer unnecessarily opens new windows for multiple selections when Use A Single Window is the preference.
• Biography views containing more information than will fit in the window no longer scroll away from the part of the biography that you're focussed on when you close an editing box, delete something, add something or resize the window.
• There are now contextual (control-click or right-click) menus in a biography page of group window.
• You can now delete notes from a biography when they're stored out-of-line as level 0 records. Clear or delete removes the reference to the note from the person's own information (INDI) or familyh (FAM) record, but leaves it in the document. A later version will remove all notes that are no longer referred to from the document.
• Changing someone's sex already correctly set their WIFE vs. HUSB role in any family to which they belonged. Now undoing (Edit->Undo) the sex change restores this role.

Release Notes for v0.7b3

• Accented characters (Mac Roman) can now be used
• Case insensitive sorting and grouping in group views.
• "Group By" menu in group views now includes "Census Place" for better display of GEDCOMS downloaded from www.familysearch.org using (!) census searches. Grouping uses the first census line when the person has more than one. A future version will do something better.
• You can now copy&paste people's birth, death, census etc data, even from other GEDCOM documents. When copying from another document (e.g. that download from familysearch.org that you did earlier) "level 0" source, note records etc are also copied. If the receiving GEDCOM document already has an identical source (note...) then the copied information is changed to use the existing source record.
• You can copy and paste SOURce information, e.g. from a FAMily record obtained from an LDS Vital Records CD to a MARRiage record in your own GEDCOM document. Select "Source" in a footnote, and choose Copy from the Edit menu; then select e.g. "Marriage" in another window, and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
• There's an Add Info menu command for adding Note and Source fields to all major event types (Birth, Marriage, Death, Burial, etc)
• the Edit... menu command now shows the kind of information in the selection, so it reads for example Edit Place... or Edit Name... etc. Edits of most values - those that fit in a single line - can be confirmed using the Return key as well as by clicking outside the box.
• Date and time of last update to an individual or family record is now stored and displayed.
• Reference values - arbitrary labels that you can attach to individuals and families - are now supported.
• tidied up the various New Thing commands in the never-ending quest for usability. The submenus (in the Edit menu) that insert additional information into an existing individual or family record are now called Add Family Info/Add Person Info/Add XXXX Info. Depending on the current selection in the window, XXXX is e.g. Birth, Death, Census, etc.
• tidied up the behaviour of the commands that add new people to the GEDCOM document (New Wife/New Husband/New Person/New Child) so that adding new people is less confusing, particularly when the 'single biography window' preference is being used
• Undo/Redo now available for the Copy, Cut, Paste, Edit, Add Info and New Person commands; for raw GEDCOM edits; for drags to subgroup windows; and for dragging a picture to biography windows.
• "Family Tree" windows are now less dependent on surnames always being spelled the same way. Surnames are still used so that the children who share their mother's surname are included, as in earlier versions.
• I now change the cursor in tree views to show more obviously that the canvas can be dragged around
• Multi-media URL links are now supported. These can be command-clicked to open the URL in the user's default application for that type.
• GEDCOM documents with .ged or .txt extensions are now more obviously selectable in Open dialogs
• added support for long (greater than 31 character) file names, and Unicode file names when running on MacOSX 10.1.5 or newer
• new MacOSX dialog sheets when quitting the application, closing document windows etc
• removed 32KB limit on RTF and GEDCOM text drags to other applications
• Add Death Info/Add Burial Info submenus no longer include Cause and Age if the selected Death or Burial already has this information.
• Additional Applescript support and some sample menus for mobile phones using Salling Clicker.
• The Copy command is now available when the document is read-only.
• Added read-only icon in index group window.
• Group by death year, death place, burial year, burial place
• Improved keyboard navigation in tree views - it now respects "names" starti ng with / [ < ( ?
• fixed bugs in Applescript support - you can now get the spouses and children of a person via Applescript
• fixed bug which disabled some of the New Thing commands inappropriately
• fixed bugs with contextual menus (control-click or right-click menus)
• fixed bug which made tree views draw incorrectly after an RTF report had been generated
• editing a second (or third...) NAME record now works correctly - previously it always updated the first NAME record
• Fixed numerous other small bugs.

Release Notes for v0.6b2

• People can now be deleted from a GEDCOM document
• Added more New Person Info commands
• Added Aqua text smoothing and 10pt fonts in the font preference menus.
• Added Hide/Show Toolbar and Bring All To Front menu commands
• Added display of many more GEDCOM record types in Biography views
• You can now add styled-text biographies to a TextEdit window by dragging the word processor icon
• You can now add a picture to a biography by dragging a JPEG file from the Finder
• When a biography window is opened, with an associated JPEG picture, the GEDCOM document will be updated if it is found that the name or location of the JPEG file has been changed
• Improved support for opening a GEDCOM document with picture references fro m another application
• (crudely done) display and editing of GEDCOM records that the program doesn't understand
• Fixed problem where you couldn't open a source quotation for editing in some situations
• Fixed broken keyboard shortcuts and added some new ones
• You can now drag text as well as people from Biography views
• Copy-and-Paste of people (paste into group views) works again
• The progress dialog now gets shown again when appropriate
• Fixed problem with show/hide toolbar button (lozenge) in a background window's title bar
• Fixed the File menu's Revert command
• Fixed crash on attempting to open a read-only or locked document
• Fixed scroll bars in the raw GEDCOM editor tab of the biography views
• Clicking OK in a raw gedcom editor view no longer marks the document as dirty, if you didn't change anything.
• The Save command now creates a temporary file, replacing the original file only after the temporary file has been successfully written, as a precaution against disk full and other errors during saving.
• The download now includes the full documentation, examples, etc

It also runs on MacOS 9 with CarbonLib 1.6 from Apple, but this configuration has had almost no testing.