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Amendments 15-12-2022 mainly clarifications and moving explicit reference to the File Description Field into the Notes Additions in Blue/Italics Deletions in Red/Strikethrough Allow use of a 'File Description' when in the Project Window creating and opening projects Requirement To be able to access ...

Well reviewing the Wish List has to be easier than following our discussions on the Forum! Plus when the system works we will know that items on the list have some level of agreement about detail - discussed on the Wish List Request sub-forum - either having arisen directly from a user wish or idea ...

I want the user:

• to be able to read "a descriptor" at the stage where a project is opened - from the project window,
• to be prompted (optionally) to enter a description when going through the project creation process

Did I miss why the stage / pen-name shouldn't be used specifically for women ? I'd imagine that if it were thought odd to use a stage-name for a woman, it was equally odd to use it for a man? That was not my intention! I was trying to think my way around if say "Emily Jane Brontë" had taken the pen...

But Mike L in his original request had limited the request to "Records" and the "back/forward arrows at top of property box" FH keeps a track of records visited via the history or go-back list, activated by the back/forward arrows at top of property box. If a record is deleted, this list is cleared ...

tatewise wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 22:26

Is this related to Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects (21232)?
Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects (21232)

The "Use of File Description ..." is far more modest!

peterbel wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 22:49

I quickly read the thread you linked to and from what I could understand, this 'Wish' is not the same.
It has been motivated by the discussion in this thread.
Project opening warning/notice (21226)

That was my intention (although the link is dead and has been amended)

Wish list Request Retention of History on deletion of a Record Requirement Deleting a record should not result in the deletion of the history list, just the removal of the deleted record's appearances in the list. Benefits The history list continues to function after the deletion of a record. Notes ...

tatewise wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2022 21:43

There is no overall Expand All/Collapse All option

But if there was a "collapse all" option, you would only have the individual's name, so it would no longer be a "descendants" tab?

Actually is this more of a bug than a wish list item?

Why should deleting a record cause the loss of the history list?

Or am I not understanding something?

What is the desired effect of moving back through history and coming across a record that has been deleted?

• Just skip to next (existing) record in the history
• display a note that "this record has been deleted"
• display a note that "this record has been deleted" and offer to try to recover it?

Suggested tweaks? ... A facility should be available to remove formatting from part of an "instance of formatted text" [where part of the text has become a mess and the user wants to revert to plain text and 'try again'] ... Isn't Ctrl+C Ctrl+X Ctrl+Sht+V adequate for that? Especially if documented...

Suggested tweaks? ... A facility should be available to be available to remove formatting from one, many or all instances of formatted text (i.e. complete field contents) , with a warning that this may result in content corruption (as above). ( Question: is it reasonable to expect Ctrl-Z to handle u...

Using exclusively plain text gives certainty about what will be exported/displayed , and using the plain text editor to manipulate plain text eliminates the risk of introducing inadvertent formatting (via user error or otherwise) . (my colouring/emphasis) Knowing we have plain text can be useful, b...

But those characters can be rendered in the plain text editor ~ as I've said several times. ... Furthermore, the font-switching chooses 'Segoe UI Symbol' font which is not a monospace font. Yes, but ... we don't know how the paste functionality works (other than it is probably OS library code) It m...

As a note - I have a wish list request on this subject (for FH) with a potentially wider scope.

Bump as part of the Blitz of Wish List Requests - with updating and formatting of request: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names Requirement Where individuals are known by different names at different times, there is a need to be able to record effectivity dates of the alternative names. Add...

Helen, I may be getting lost between threads but have we established why we need: "Plain Text" in a "Plain Text Field" (i.e. no _TEXT, _FMT 1 etc), rather than just being able to hold unformatted text in a "Rich Text Field"? If we can only tell the difference by going to the GEDCOM, why should it ma...

The particular symbols in Bill's original website that gain Segoe UI Symbol font formatting are available in all the font sets that I have toyed with, including Tahoma, Times New Roman, Calibri, etc. In Bill's website, the text in question is wrapped in <pre> tags (a bit like the code tags on this ...

And are those characters always symbols of some type, of does it affect alpha-numerics (I'd guess not). I've lost count of the number of times that I've said it also happens with plain boring ASCII text. We're going round in circles again, so that's my last word on this issue apart from supporting ...

AS uses a normal text box if you want to use plain text and a rich-text box if you want to use rich-text. So AS already implemented the thing that has been requested for FH to do in the wish-list discussion. :) So what happens when you try to paste text into a "normal text box" which included chara...

Aren't we getting a little carried away with working a solution? I for one wouldn't find it acceptable to mess around with fonts to avoid these issues, so the onus is firmly on CP to fix it rather than devising elaborate workarounds. That is my default approach, but If the problem is shown to be "n...

So is Segoe UI available in FH7 Tools>Preferences>Display>Default Font? If it is do we eliminate a whole range of problems concerned with "unformatted paste" being unable to find a character in the "display default font"? Is the result of changing the FH Default Display Font to Segoe UI, tolerable ...

Now I know more about fonts that I either want to know or am capable of absorbing. Gist seems to be If "the system" (here the interaction between the OS clipboard application and FH) can't decide on what font to use to render a character (often something non alpha-numeric), it has a fallback mechani...

AdrianBruce wrote: ↑

13 Dec 2022 18:52

That's why MS Word has different defaults depending on where you're pasting from.

How does the clipboard tell MS Word where it got its contents?