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#Genealogy Program

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#99640From: RICK GERENMay 13, 1993 8:51 PM
Andrew: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I was away this week on business. In any case, I loaded up AFT once more and ran through the questions you e-mailed. First…..the tree is only in the "tens" of people. Second……all entries were typed. Third ….I used "exec" and sure enough, there were approximately eight tasks running (these tasks have the names of people in my tree). I noted that six of the eight tasks were the same person. Perplexed, I experimented running the program in 68000 mode (not 68030). It ran perfectly, and I then discovered that clicking on a person brings up a "person view window". You see, this window does not appear in 68030 mode, however clicking on a box will run the associated task. This is why I had so many of the same tasks running simultaneously. I quit the program, and as you suspected in your e-mail comment, all the tasks were still running (68030 mode) after quitting the program. I hope this helps you narrow down the problem. Another question; the family tree window shows as an "upper-half screen on my hi-res interlaced display. The window has a sizing gadget, but it does not work. Is there a way to have the family tree window fill the entire screen? My last question (problem) …is that I cannot get the "family.help" file to work. Although the file is in the same directory as AFT, when I press help, the requester "unable to open file family.help" appears. In spite of my difficulties, it is a very good program. I could fall back to 68000 mode every time I use it, but it would be nicer if it worked with the 68030. Best regards, Rick
#99745From: Andrew HounsellMay 14, 1993 1:59 PM
Rick, Thanks for answering my questions. I am stumped at the moment as to why the windows would fail to appear in 68030 mode. I use an 030 accelerator (GVP) all the time in my machine with no problems. It would seem that something is failing in the task before it opens the window, but that it is not returning. I'll look into this to see what I can find. As for your other questions : – The sizing gadget not working is a bug. Fortunately there is a workaround of sorts. AFT is supposed to remember the window size each time you quit the program, and restore the window to that size the next time you run it. The dimensions are stored in the file "S:family_tree.config". As this is a text file, you could edit it with any text editor to get the window the size you want. – The family.help file is loaded from your current directory. Do you run AFT from the workbench, or the CLI? I think I checked it in both cases, but I will re-check. If you run it from a program like toolmanager, make sure you set up the working directory for it to run from. – Andrew
#99791From: RICK GERENMay 14, 1993 6:38 PM
Thanks Andrew. In answer to your last question, I run AFT from the workbench. Although the file is there and the application appears to call it, the message "unable to open file family.help" indicates the file may be damaged in some way. Hmmmmm, come to think of it I did not try the help in 68000 mode. I will, and will let you know the result. Rick