Post by Uncle Buddy on Oct 29, 2022 1:52:33 GMT -8
I took about a month off to act like a human being (to the best of my ability) i.e. doing stuff other than writing Treebard code. Read a couple books, changed the strings on my guitar, got ready for the next round of home improvements, etc. I'm back into it now, making big improvements as usual.
It started off with a new video series which I haven't posted yet. I was going to continue the series on using Treebard to make a family tree, based on the Charles D. Gregory tree, and that series is what I'm working on, except I chose a different inventor family instead of Gregory so I could use the series to show the creation of a new tree from absolute zero.
The first video has some good stuff in it but it generated a do list of urgent stuff so I'm working on that list before I post the first video and continue the series.
The existing Add Person dialog was adequate for starting the tree, but I'm now working on a complete rewrite of that feature. The portion of that dialog which auto-sorts a name's parts into the name string as it will appear in an alphabetical list has been simplified like the similar feature in the new Names tab. Most interestingly, it's now possible to easily add images to a person in the tree from any directory on your computer, while resizing them at the same time if you want. An Add Person menu command will be added so there will be more than one way of getting the dialog to open. Up till now, the only way to create a new person was to give someone a parent, spouse or child with a name that Treebard didn't recognize, but the added menu command will open the dialog so you can make free-range individuals and link them to family members later.
The Add Person rewrite was inspired by a revamping of the image gallery class which now opens as a separate dialog for place and source images, same as the person gallery. This simplifies the code, which needed to be sifted through anyway since it was some of the oldest code in Treebard.
When I get these new features working well, I'll post the first video in the new series and continue the series, in which I will be building a tree from scratch by reading real data off of sources and inputting everything live. Well not "live" exactly but with the camera running, you know what I mean.
There is a new trend to not do this full time?
It started off with a new video series which I haven't posted yet. I was going to continue the series on using Treebard to make a family tree, based on the Charles D. Gregory tree, and that series is what I'm working on, except I chose a different inventor family instead of Gregory so I could use the series to show the creation of a new tree from absolute zero.
The first video has some good stuff in it but it generated a do list of urgent stuff so I'm working on that list before I post the first video and continue the series.
The existing Add Person dialog was adequate for starting the tree, but I'm now working on a complete rewrite of that feature. The portion of that dialog which auto-sorts a name's parts into the name string as it will appear in an alphabetical list has been simplified like the similar feature in the new Names tab. Most interestingly, it's now possible to easily add images to a person in the tree from any directory on your computer, while resizing them at the same time if you want. An Add Person menu command will be added so there will be more than one way of getting the dialog to open. Up till now, the only way to create a new person was to give someone a parent, spouse or child with a name that Treebard didn't recognize, but the added menu command will open the dialog so you can make free-range individuals and link them to family members later.
The Add Person rewrite was inspired by a revamping of the image gallery class which now opens as a separate dialog for place and source images, same as the person gallery. This simplifies the code, which needed to be sifted through anyway since it was some of the oldest code in Treebard.
When I get these new features working well, I'll post the first video in the new series and continue the series, in which I will be building a tree from scratch by reading real data off of sources and inputting everything live. Well not "live" exactly but with the camera running, you know what I mean.
There is a new trend to not do this full time?