Post by Uncle Buddy on Jun 30, 2020 0:26:22 GMT -8
This is what you see when Treebard opens. A current person is chosen and an events table displays at the bottom. The picture can be toggled with a table of attributes. The attributes table will show by default if there's no picture.
The scrolled frame with the colored boxes is a placeholder for a small window into the pedigree chart. It can be panned (dragged with the mouse) or scrolled to view different areas, or double-clicked to open a larger version on the Charts tab. I haven't started on the charts yet. When panning with the mouse, the picture moves faster than the mouse to keep from cramping your mouse hand.
If you click on the picture a gallery dialog opens and you can see all the pictures that are linked to the current person.
The single-current-person mode is important. One popular genieware lets you display a current person but edit information about a different person. This causes confusion. I've found myself adding, deleting or editing facts for the wrong person. You should only be able to edit assertions and conclusions for one person at a time.
The icons for the ribbon menu at top left are the right size, not too small or big. They are simple, plain, not cutesy, two-color icons. So many applications have icons that are unidentifiable because designers want to use gradients and colors and do something fancy with a square centimeter of screen or less. I like these icons. They look clean.
When MS Office changed to big icons I couldn't stand looking at it. I still use Office 2003. Screen space should not be wasted with huge cartoonish icons. See "the next year's model" problem.
In general the notion of displaying ugly pink caricatures for females who have no picture and ugly blue caricatures for males who have no picture is a sign of bad taste. Anything old-timey would look better than that. Treebard will let you choose from a selection of default images to display for a person who has no picture of his own, including empty space. Or you can add default pictures of your own. My favorite idea though is not to use a default picture at all, but instead find any old picture of where the person lived. Anything but clip art. I'd rather have a picture of some Texas desert sage brush than clip art. See attached example.
Treebard will also have a table of attributes on the person page. It will show by default if the user wants to see it instead of Texas desert sage brush, or it can be hidden by the picture and toggled in and out of view.
The scrolled frame with the colored boxes is a placeholder for a small window into the pedigree chart. It can be panned (dragged with the mouse) or scrolled to view different areas, or double-clicked to open a larger version on the Charts tab. I haven't started on the charts yet. When panning with the mouse, the picture moves faster than the mouse to keep from cramping your mouse hand.
If you click on the picture a gallery dialog opens and you can see all the pictures that are linked to the current person.
The single-current-person mode is important. One popular genieware lets you display a current person but edit information about a different person. This causes confusion. I've found myself adding, deleting or editing facts for the wrong person. You should only be able to edit assertions and conclusions for one person at a time.
The icons for the ribbon menu at top left are the right size, not too small or big. They are simple, plain, not cutesy, two-color icons. So many applications have icons that are unidentifiable because designers want to use gradients and colors and do something fancy with a square centimeter of screen or less. I like these icons. They look clean.
When MS Office changed to big icons I couldn't stand looking at it. I still use Office 2003. Screen space should not be wasted with huge cartoonish icons. See "the next year's model" problem.
In general the notion of displaying ugly pink caricatures for females who have no picture and ugly blue caricatures for males who have no picture is a sign of bad taste. Anything old-timey would look better than that. Treebard will let you choose from a selection of default images to display for a person who has no picture of his own, including empty space. Or you can add default pictures of your own. My favorite idea though is not to use a default picture at all, but instead find any old picture of where the person lived. Anything but clip art. I'd rather have a picture of some Texas desert sage brush than clip art. See attached example.
Treebard will also have a table of attributes on the person page. It will show by default if the user wants to see it instead of Texas desert sage brush, or it can be hidden by the picture and toggled in and out of view.
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