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The changes of the last versions
New on 22.12.2023:
- Family ties now support the indication of the given name by appending an asterisk (e.g., webtrees).
- Copying a record (only information from the main window).
- Phonetic search is now allowed only for last name, first name, and nickname.
- In the main window, the index number is displayed with a thousand separator.
- Acceleration of the import log generation.
- Checking for updates, when needed, opens the download page in the browser and no longer downloads the new version directly.
Fixed Issues:
- Certain inputs could lead to a termination of output during export (text export and printing).
- The CopyPicture export command no longer worked as intended.
- The tables in the main window could have incorrect column widths.
- Under Windows, the character "ß" in the name might not be found.
- In the relationship search, the degree of kinship was not displayed.
- The Reference Image function did not check for duplicate assignment of identical colors.
- The tables in the main window occasionally displayed incorrect column titles.
- A double-click in the relationship search could result in an error message.
- In the relationship search, the degree of kinship might not be displayed in the decorative graphic.
- If the heading was toggled off and on again in the decorative graphic, an error occurred.
- Saving without a path for backup files caused problems.
- The save routine had problems during renaming and may not have saved the data.
- In the relationship search, an error occurred when attempting to show possible connections in case of an unfound kinship relationship.
New 11.10.2023:
- The generation of the import log
accelerates.
- Checking for updates calls the download page
in the browser when needed and no longer loads
the new version directly.
Fixed
bugs:
- If the header was hidden and shown again in
the jewelry graphic there was an error
message.
- Saving without path for backup dtaeias
caused problems.
- The save routine had problems when renaming
and possibly did not save the data.
- In the relationship search, an error
occurred when trying to display the possible
connections if a relationship was not found.
(06.10.2023)
- Die Erzeugung des Importprotokolls
beschleunigt
- Wurde in der Schmuckgrafik die Überschrift
aus- und wieder eingeblendet gab es eine
Fehlermeldung.
- Speichern ohne Pfad für Backup-Dtaeien
führte zu Problemen.
- Die Speicherroutine hat beim Umbenennen
Probleme gehabt und die Daten u.U. nicht
gesichert.
- In der Verwandtschaftssuche kam es zu einem
Fehler, wenn man bei nicht gefundener
Verwandtschaftsbeziehung die möglichen
Verbindungen anzeigen lassen wollte.
New 24.09.2023:
- The generation of the GEDCOM import protocol
has been revised.
- The creation of backup files has been
changed.
- The output of birth/baptism date/place of
the descendant list has been optimized.
- Built-in data backup based on time
intervals.
- Data protection/security settings dialog
converted for this purpose.
- Autocomplete now takes individual words into
account for the job.
- Autocomplete now takes individual words into
account when determining the cause of death.
- The option “Inherit the denomination of the
last person changed” can now optionally be
retained permanently beyond the current
session.
- The option “Inherit the quality of the
source citation from the last input” can now
optionally be retained permanently beyond the
current session.
- The export commands [preruf(x)],
[rufname(x)], [postruf(x)] and [nickname(x)]
return an empty text when data protection is
activated.
- Added inserting images from clipboard.
- The user dialog for export templates now has
a cancel button.
- The minimum value of 16 generations for
calculating the Kekulénr. reduced to 6.
- You can now also specify and change the flag
in the language editor.
- Maximum image size for print output on
Windows reduced to 16,000 pixels (macOS:
25,000).
- If output via the printer is selected in the
print dialog, the print dialog only appears
after an existing user dialog.
- Further settings for the jewelry graphics of
the relative search.
- The jewelry issue of the relative
relationship has been given additional setting
options.
- New print command command
[PrintText(X,Y,Wrapwide,Mode)string].
- New print command command
[PrintTextRight(X,Y,Wrapwide,Mode)string].
- New print command command
[PrintTextCenter(X,Y,Wrapwide,Mode)string].
- New export command [GetHTMLColor(RGB)].
Fixed
bugs:
- An error occurred in the descendant list
when more than 63 generations were to be
displayed.
- In the 'Check file references' function, the
table can be transferred to the clipboard as
text.
- The relative search returned
brother/sister-in-law for
brother-in-law/sister-in-law.
- If the family tree file does not exist, an
error message could occur when used by
multiple users.
- Text/HTML export produced an error if the
path specified in the settings did not exist.
- Variable GEDCOMIomportPfad deleted (possibly
generated an error message).
- In the list of people, the button "xy" was
not activated if there was a person with a
last name that began with y.
- Before the main window is closed, a check is
made to see whether a message is still
displayed.
- The GEDCOM import did not import a possibly
existing date and did not indicate this in the
import log.
- When closing the quick search, an ongoing
rebuild is first aborted.
- Some butler functions stopped working.
- Double-clicking on the number of existing
documents opens the slide show, but does not
hide the help windows.
- The last name was no longer displayed in the
island search.
- The loading routine did not interrupt the
construction of the quick search. This could
possibly lead to an error message.
- The people list was hidden when the info
window was displayed.
- The display image was no longer displayed in
the ancestor window (7 generations).
- In the ancestral gallery, the information
field was covered by the wedding rings.
- In local administration, the text in the
table may have been output with too little
contrast to the background.
- In the address management, the arrows behind
the email address and the web address were
missing.
- When the labels were printed in color, the
women were always printed in black.
- An error may have occurred when creating a
new file if the source windows were still
open.
- For languages other than German and English,
a date could be incorrectly marked (this
information cannot be exported to GEDCOM).
- The print dialog again offers the option to
save as a JPG image.
- The search window did not remember the last
position.
- Under Windows, Family Ties was not ended
correctly and program components remained in
the task manager.
- In the user dialog of output templates,
descenders were sometimes cut off.
- A comment about an address that only
consists of a blank line resulted in an error
message during the GEDCOM export.
New 10.09.2022:
- Backup function revised.
- Optimized the structure of the main window
at startup.
- FOKO export expanded to include cancellation
option.
- FOKO export expanded to include progress
display.
- The GEDCOM import now reports to the system
occasionally so that it doesn't look like an
error.
- FOKO export reinstated.
- Additional checks for write protection of
data records added.
- New commands for outputting shadows in print
templates.
- The English translation is now also
displayed in the lexicon.
- The lexicon file can now contain terms for
table titles of the lexicon table in order to
be able to use languages other than English.
- Update of the development environment and
necessary plugins.
- Error handling revised
- Preferences loading revised.
Fixed
bugs:
- The paths set under Windows were not
displayed correctly in the settings
- Fixed an error in the relative search for
more than 63 generations in a line.
- The Check File References feature could no
longer collect unused files.
- The Check File References feature was unable
to show the second tab when showing Files Not
Found.
- The date calculator could not calculate
dates before 1601 (Windows limitation).
Internally, 2000 years are added during the
calculation and subtracted again later.
- Fixed bug in navigation window2/rebuild.
- Same function adapted in navigation window.
- In the relative search, the jewelry graphic
may have been drawn incorrectly when three
people are displayed at the top level.
- The statistics function remembers the
sorting order of the ancestral loss table.
- The function window, the butler and the
people list are now hidden again if the main
window is not the active window.
- With read-only data sets, many pure output
functions resulted in unnecessary messages
about write protection.
- The command to calculate the text length
(TextWidth) had problems with some special
characters.
- The changes to search the pref file always
led to the (Linux) folder ".Family Ties".
- Drag and drop a folder into the main window
resulted in an error message.
- If the origin management was called up from
a source window and a new origin was created,
this procedure may overwrite the first origin
entry.
- If write protection was activated for a data
record, an error message may occur.
- The output of the descendants list in RTF
format swallowed the day of the marriage date.
- In the relative search, the jewelry graphic
may have been drawn incorrectly when three
people are displayed at the top level.
- If write protection was set, some fields of
the sources could be changed.
- The text export had problems outputting
square brackets
- The built-in semicircle template did not
work on Windows.
New 05.09.2021:
- The paths are now preset to the user's
Documents folder. A “Family Ties” folder is
created there, in which further folders are
created.
- Replace function expanded to include
denomination.
- Integrated export templates in Dutch.
- Integrated print template templates in
Dutch.
- Dutch language file translated by user.
- GEDCOM import: Detection of GEDCOM files
that cannot be imported (GEDCOM 7 and newer).
- If a father is added to a person as a new
person, the child's last name is defaulted as
the father's last name.
- FOKO export removed.
- The GOV search in the local administration
shows the associated website if the GOV ID is
available.
- An update of the language file is offered if
the internal data is more current than the
saved language file.
- Print template for pedigree revised.
- If you leave a source that does not contain
any indication of origin, there is a
corresponding note.
- New translation in Turkish.
- The age in the main window is now
recalculated if you change the date of birth,
baptism, death or burial and leave the input
field.
- English and French language files updated.
- Language files Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
Dutch, Polish and Russian now translated by
Deepl translator.
- The table for the quick search is now
calculated in the background immediately after
loading and is therefore available more
quickly.
- Various texts localized.
- New French language file added.
Fixed
bugs:
- In the replace function, when certain data
sets were selected, the previously selected
data sets were not deleted.
- In the replace function, the input field
could not be used when selecting certain data
records. The input was always replaced by a
specific index number.
- GEDCOM export: An error occurred if you
canceled the selection of another image
folder.
- The context menu in the search window did
not allow access to the correct settings
section.
- GEDCOM export: Various corrections in the
area of _LOC records.
- GEDCOM export: The reference to the SUBM
record was missing in the header.
- GEDCOM import: Family ties only took the
first file into account in OBJE records.
- Changing the comments of a file assigned to
a source might result in an error.
- Stop reporting premature birth didn't work.
- Double searching may result in a continuous
loop and the window could not be closed.
- Under certain circumstances, previously
copied text could not be pasted into the
"Location" field in the source window.
- Fixed bug in export command [group(x)].
- The GEDCOM export marked the wrong file as
the output image.
- Non-gendered individuals resulted in a
merging error.
- The text export may have had problems
encoding in RTF encoding.
- When the descendant list was output, the
width was determined to be significantly too
wide.
- GEDCOM import: Problems with nickname
recognition fixed.
- The person list could not be scrolled using
the arrow keys.
- GEDCOM export: If two people get married
multiple times, it was not exported correctly.
- Selecting with the shift arrow key did not
work in fields with automatic completion.
- Own abbreviations in dates were not saved.
- Own abbreviations in dates were not taken
into account during the date check.
- If the dates were incorrect, an error might
occur when calling the name distribution.
- GEDCOM: Sources without stored information
about their origin were exported incorrectly.
- An incorrect age may have been displayed in
the main window.
- When autocompleted, the part that was just
suggested was also included.
- Update check of the test version produced an
error.
- More localizations.
- The display in the relative search may draw
a line incorrectly.
- The left window position was always set to
0.
- An empty STB backup path resulted in an
unnecessary notice.
- A name entered in the quick search was not
accepted.
- When outputting very large images, Family
Ties may crash.
- In the "Find duplicates" function, the
specified percentage value was unintentionally
changed.
- In the GEDCOM export, not all location
records (_LOC records) may have been exported.
- Small corrections in the representation of
family relationships.
- Corrections made in the area of source
export in the GEDCOM export.
- The GEDCOM export did not output source
information on the marriage, or not
completely.
- The GEDCOM export also returned empty names.
- The GEDCOM export limits length and width
information to six decimal places.
- The TextWidth output command returned an
incorrect value.
- The quick search was not set up the first
time it was accessed.
- Under certain circumstances there was an
error message when exiting if the person list
was open.
- Under Windows only black areas were produced
when printing.
- The table with other references in the main
window displayed an incorrect info box for the
entries.
New 01.05.2020:
- When loading data, leading \s are removed
from a document name.
- Date check improved.
- Input of / in first or last name disabled.
- Sources: Position of quality changed.
- added additional gender information
"intersexual, diverse" and "not specified".
- The flag colour and the flag text can be
deleted for all datasets by pressing the alt
key when clicking OK (in the flag).
- GEDCOM Export: User-defined flags _CHAN and
_NOTE can be excluded from export.
- The template editor has been given its own
menu.
- In the template editor, some buttons have
been dropped.
- Quick search optional (ShowQuicksearch).
Fixed
bugs:
- GEDCOM: Sources containing only one image
were not exported.
- GEDCOM: for sources about marriage, church
marriage, and separation, only images of one
partner were exported.
- GEDCOM: some documents may not have been
exported correctly.
- Fixed a display error in the document vault
table.
- Under special circumstances in Windows, the
first name input field was temporarily hidden.
- The backup feature did not save the data if
the destination folder was not empty.
- There were problems with transparent areas
during print output under Windows.
- If multiple GEDCOM exports were run in a row
without closing the dialog, additional data
might be output, resulting in an incorrect
GEDCOM file.
- The Ancestor windows displayed personal data
up to the 8th generation at most.
- Several errors in the GEDCOM export have
been fixed (dates, TITL without text, NOTE
without text, OBJE without FILE,
Witness_of_Death and Witness_of_Birth replaced
with _WITN).
- In the source window, displayed HTML files
were sometimes not hidden again.
- Image clipping may not have been included in
the GEDCOM import.
- An error could occur in the GEDCOM export if
the folder for the images to be exported
already existed.
- Copy sources: The pop-up menu had "Title"
instead of "Christening".
- Corrected the GEDCOM export of sponsors.
- Searching for duplicate records did not work
under Windows.
- The jewelry graphic of the relationship
search crashed Family Ties under Windows.
- GEDCOM Import: Place names with spaces were
imported incorrectly.
- GEDCOM Export: Corrected other references.
- Added change test for Plus button Other
Links.
- Removed unnecessary query in the origin
management.
- When searching for a current version, the
message only appeared during the first test.
- "Do not report again" of premature births
did not work.
- The calculation of premature births did not
work correctly.
- CopyPicture did not work correctly in the
export.
- In the address management, changes in the
fields City, Country and State were not
highlighted.
- Path separators were handled incorrectly for
documents added from subfolders.
New 24.04.2019:
- Plausibility check specified.
- The characters /,\ or : in the file name of
added files are replaced by -.
- Quick search added.
- Changes to the GEDCOM export call name
settings.
- Changes to the location name of a location
record also changes the event locations.
- Changes to an event location with reference
to the location manager provides a note and
the ability to switch to the location manager.
- When entering the geo coordinates of a
location the entry is checked.
- New command for output templates:
[SetProband(IndexNo)]
- Multi-user use can be optionally switched
on.
- In the GEDCOM export, you can specify
whether location records are output as _LOC
records.
- GEDCOM import and export has been further
adapted, enhanced, and corrected.
- New command for generating a Postscript font
selection in the Export Template User Dialog.
- Mac OS: The built-in text export template
'Semicircle' has been slightly reworked (font
selection).
- GEDCOM export extended to include source
references
- There is a new option Ñ=N in the search
window.
- In the information window, characters for
birth, baptism, death and burial are only
displayed if the corresponding data is
available.
- The message about possible premature births
now also names the affected children.
- The list of persons and the list of
descendants are updated when the data are
transferred in the main window.
- In the descendant list a symbol for the
display picture can be displayed ([SymbolPic]
and [Picture]).
- If no new index number is specified via
Change father/mother, the parent is displayed.
- In the search window an additional search
option Ñ=N is built in (first and last name
only).
- The labels of the buttons of the person list
are now much larger in HiDPI resolution.
- The list of persons was completely
redesigned and is now much faster.
- The integrated template "Stammblatt" is now
output in English if the language is not set
to German.
Fixed
Bugs:
- Visual defects corrected.
- If the settings of the user dialog (export
functions) could not be saved, the output
terminated.
- Adding PDF files could cause a crash
(Windows only).
- The plausibility check may have produced
incorrect messages.
- The number of columns of the tables in the
main window is kept.
- The list of persons was sometimes not hidden
when switching programs.
- In the plausibility check an entry on the
'Known exception' tab was suppressed.
- It was possible to create location data
records without a name in the location
administration.
- When saving, "new" was sometimes appended to
the file name.
- Some images were not displayed in the help
file.
- Under certain circumstances changing the
number of columns in the child or partner
table could lead to an error message
- In the GEDCOM export, the marriage and/or
separation remarks were not output if the
place and date were blank.
- If FB was started a second time while data
was still being loaded, duplicate references
would occur.
- Minor bug fixes
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