Genealog
The program is used to create and work with genealogic information.
How to work
with program:
- To scroll windows: press left mouse
button anywhere at the empty place of the window. Now keeping it down drag
it in any direction. Also, you may use scrollbars for the same purpose.
- To create new element: press right mouse
button anywhere at the empty place of the window. The popup menu will
appear. Select appropriate action in menu.
- To change position of any element: press
left mouse button at this element and after that drag this element to the
new location.
- To drag the group of elements: shift
cursor to the beginning of the group and press simultaneously “Shift” key
on keyboard and left mouse button. Now drag mouse to the opposite side
corner of the group you want to select. The doted line will surround selected
region. After you release mouse button – all elements inside selected
region became selected. Press left mouse button on any of these selected elements
and drag it to the new position. The rest of elements will be shifted too.
To remove selection – click on any free place of the window.
- To shift simultaneously several elements
what could not be selected by previous method: On each of them click by
left mouse button while holding “Ctrl” key down. After you have selected
all needed elements – drag any of them to the new place. The rest of elements
will be shifted too. To remove selection – click on any free place of the
window.
- To change any property of element: press
right mouse button at that element and select appropriate menu position. Also,
you may do the same by double click on this element.
- To set or change family relations you may
use dialog window with element properties or set this relations by sight.
To set relations FatheràChild: drag child-element as close as possible to the element
what you want to become father. Now keeping mouse button down press “F” (father)
key on keyboard. To set relations MotheràChild: drag
child-element as close as possible to the element what you want to become
mother. Now keeping mouse button down press “M” (mother) key on keyboard.
- It is recommended to use alignment grid to
make alignment of elements simpler. The grid may be displayed and tuned by
menu “Settings à Detailed settings à Grid”.
- To make navigation and edition simpler
the scale of diagram is used. You may select appropriate scale by menu “Edit
à Scale”.
- Background picture, color of window, color
of elements, width and color of lines, and other settings may be set by
menu “Settings”. All made changes could be dismissed by menu “Settings
à Reset settings”.
- Created diagrams could be exported into “GEDCOM”, “BMP” and “HTML” formats. You may do this
by selecting appropriate extensions while saving diagram into file.
Media files:
The unlimited amount of media files can be connected to any element
of a genealogic tree. The photo, audio, video and other information describing
this element or concerning to it can be kept in these files. Because of
potentially big sizes of this information in the file of a genealogic tree
relative ways to media files are remembered only. In addition, each media file
can have an annotation which will be displayed by the program for the choused
media file. The annotation of the media file is a usual text file having same
name, as appropriate media file + extension ".txt". So, for example,
if you have media file "alex.avi" and you wish to make the annotation
with the indication of date and a place of shooting - create near to this file
a file "alex.avi.txt" and write in it the text of the summary.
Themes:
Starting from version 2.4 you may quickly change the style diagram
uses by using themes. The list of existing themes you may get by choosing «Settings
à Themes à Choose theme..». You may perform additional corrections of the chosen
theme by choosing appropriate menu commands under «Settings à Detailed
settings». After you receive the most suitable for your needs theme, you can
save it for future use in other your diagrams by using menu command «Settings à Themes
à Save current theme..».
Computer
requirements:
If program works too slowly on your computer: do not use background images, do
not show alignment grid, turn off shadows, hide historical events.
You may download new version of the program
from – www.bible.in.ua
I’ll be grateful for all suggestions and
found errors send me by email – vinokurov@bible.in.ua
© Alexey
Vinokurov, 2003-2022