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GEDitCOM II - 1.2build1

Customizable genealogy editing and viewing app.

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Current Version:	1.2build1
Release Date:	2009-11-07
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	206
Downloads (all versions):	2,149

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Product Description:

GEDitCOM II is a rewritten version of GEDitCOM using Apple's Cocoa environment. It will greatly exceed user-interface features of GEDitCOM. It will retain the philosophy of GEDitCOM to be a customizable genealogy application for editing and viewing GEDCOM genealogy files. Users of GEDitCOM, should find GEDitCOM II easy to use.

What's new in this version:

Version tested and verified to work in Snow Leopard.
Many features of the user interface formats were improved:
- The "Default Format" and "Pedigree Format" now divide the window into "Panes" or "Tabs" where each pane has related data (e.g., details, events, multimedia, notes and source, etc.). In addition, the format was improved in many (mostly minor) ways.
- The previous "Default Format" with a single pane for all data is still included and it is called "Default One Pane Format."1834. Alternatively, you can see use the "All" pane in the new "Default Format."
- French and Spanish translations added to "Default Format" (both versions) and to the "GEDCOM Tab View" format.
- The "Book Format" was rewritten (although appearance is not changed much).
- A new "Basic Format" was written for those that want their own user interface formats. This formats handles all the behind-the-scenes work letting you to concentrate on appearance of the data. This format is not include in the download, but is now available on the user interface formats downloads page.
- The "Formats" folders in the GEDitCOM II libraries, can now contain subfolders to organize formats. The folders will translate to submenus in the "Open Format" menu.
- The new "Reveal User Formats in Finder" and "Reveal System Formats in Finder" menu commands will open the selected formats folder in the Finder and activate the Finder.
A new "Bookmarks" menu in the web menu can be customized with links to all your favorite genealogy web sites.
The use of embedded html content in your data has been enhanced. It can now display embedded maps (which is very useful in genealogy notes). There is now a pop-up menu while editing notes that helps you convert to using html text and helps in entering common elements like tables, lists, and sections. You can drag records to html text to insert a link to that record.
You can now send all records linked to a report to a selected album
The reports that check dates or validate GEDCOM data can now be done on a subset of records (such as selected records or records in an album). Previously these reports always checked the entire file.
The "All Relatives..." report will now find half-blood relationships and step parents (or step grandparents, etc.).
Family tree charts can optionally display page lines so you can tell how it will print. The page lines can be hidden with a new menu command. The new page lines and the previous disclosure triangles are hidden when a chart is printed.
You can now create families with same-sex couples.
The "Attach Child" sheet will initially activate the "Find Field" and guess that the child's last name will match the husband's surname.
The "Referenced By" menu command now also works for Repository Records so you can see all sources linked to that record.
You can control click a multimedia object thumbnail link to select that object as the current record's portrait image.
Changes to AppleScripting:
- The "Scripts" folders in the GEDitCOM II libraries, can now contain subfolders to organize scripts. The folders will translate to submenus in the "Scripts" menus.
- The new "Reveal User Scripts in Finder" and "Reveal System Scripts in Finder" menu commands will open the selected scripts folder in the Finder and activate the Finder.
- Three separate scripts to change the case of names were combines into a single "Change Name Case" script.
- A new "Copy Special" script copies basic information on selected records to the clipboard. You can paste into email message or any text document.
- Six separate scripts to find disconnected records were combined into a single "Find Disconnected Records" script.
Bug fixes and other minor changes:
- Added custom _EMAIL tag to Repository Records to document the email address of the repository.
- When checking for new version on the Internet, it will now check the build number as well. Before it only looked at the main version number. You will thus be notified, for example, if a build 2 of version 1.2 is posted while you are running build 1.
- Fixed GEDitCOM II version number in Header Record of new files.
- Fixed message that could claim the file had been changed by another application when it had not been changed.
- Fixed bug that would not read all longitudes correctly from photos having embedded GPS data.
GEDitCOM Editor changes and changes made to the GENerel template language:
- When language strings are loaded for editing they will be sorted by the key.
- When synchronizing languages, information on unused strings will be printed to the Console.
- User interface formats can now be configured for multipane display (and this feature is used in "The Default Format" and the "Pedigree Format"). A new PaneBar cell helps in create an index to the different sections of a record.
- if tag is here (or nothere) command can check multiple tags at the same time with if tag1|tag2|tag3 is here.
- New controlSize property to control size of buttons and pop-up menus.
- sizeToFit command has new option to insure resize will keep the cell in the current row.
- New Hide command to hide selected GEDCOM tags from view.
- #macOS$ variable can be used to test the MacOS system in use.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6

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The best just got better - Version: 1.0, 7/17/2009 02:40AM PST

rayjay

GEDitCOM's developer, John Nairn. seeks to provide a genealogy program that is powerful, easy to use, customizable, and that fully supports the GEDCOM Standard. With the first version he succeeded: with GEDitCOM II he has far exceeded the original: it's easier to use, easier to customize, and is also very attractively presented.

I used MacFamily Tree for a while and tried out Reunion and Heredis before settling on the earlier version of GEDitCOM. The others were prettier and had fancier charts but they also had far too many idiosyncrasies, mishandled GEDCOM Standards (creating problems in transferring information to other people), and they were very inflexible: you get what you're given!

You can use GEDitCOM "out of the box", but It took me some time to learn how to tweak its interface to suit the way I want to use it. I expected to jump straight into version II, so I was initially surprised by the differences in customizing it, but after less than two weeks I'm feeling more in control and I have it set up very much to my own liking: no doubt I'll continue to fiddle around at the edges.

This is only the first post-beta release of GEDitCOM II and John Nairn acknowledges that there is still work to be done. I've already got a (short) wish-list, which I'll pass on to him. My comment on the original GEDitCOM, four years ago, was "If you want to create some serious genealogical records and not just set out a short family tree in a pretty pictorial format, then this program must be the best". The best just got a whole lot better.