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From: "Roger Nelson" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Entering first event, new individual
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:46:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20060517215156.GMO4651.gx5.fuse.net@BILLXP>


I am following Bill's advise and entering a new individual in "Children" of
a set of parents, but the parents are coming up rolls reversed. I can get
them in correct roll if I enter then in an event first "childbirth" but they
do not appear in the "Children" field adding them again to the "children"
field I end up with two sets of parents one with roll reversed. Deleting the
unwanted, I loose the entries in Children field. Is this part of the bug,
will it be sorted in next release, or have I done something wrong somewhere.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: William T. Flight [mailto:]
Sent: 17 May 2006 22:52
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Entering first event, new individual


Hi Andrew,

There is a problem in the 3.6.4 build with entering the first event for a
newly added individual on the Events Page.

When entering the birth event for a newly added individual, try entering it
on the Summary Page. Instead of double-clicking on the green "Birth" label,
click in the "Date" column and enter the birth date, then you can tab to the
Place field.

Either do it as suggested above, or use the toolbar arrow keys to move to a
different individual and back before entering your event data on the Events
Page.

The problem will be corrected in the next release.

Thanks,

--Bill

William T. Flight
http://www.thoughtfulcreations.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hough [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:56 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Date Ordering
>
> Hello Bill,
>
> > Thanks for your questions regarding the sorting of partial
> event dates.
>
> < Lots of useful information snipped but carefully saved. >
>
> Thanks for the information on date sorting. I've had a quick
> read but it
> obviously requires greater study. I'll also look at my other
> anomalous
> sorts and see if they might be caused by the same problems.
>
> Part of the problem is that I understood, probably
> incorrectly, that the
> Class of an event was only used to aid sorting if no date information
> was supplied. In which case I would have thought that
> entering 1900, for
> example would have overridden sorting based on Class.
>
>
> While I have your attention <grin>, could you answer another
> point which
> arose while investigating the sort problem:-
>
> If I enter a new individual from the Toolbar, insert a name on the
> summary page, click on the Birth event in the event window
> and then try
> to enter a date on the Birth event window which appears, GB
> refuses to
> accept the date.
>
> Is this a bug, buglet or a case of "You're not supposed to do it that
> way!!!"?
>
> Thanks again for your explanation on date sorting.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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