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Windows 7 has a Snipping Tool to capture images very easily; for example:

Tim's expression starts =Timespan and ends -3. That may perhaps help.

Mike said: I am beginning to wonder if the published Plugin needs preference options to tweak your own points, but that is for another day. Personally, I feel Preferences to be overkill; I suspect relatively few users will feel the need to tweak. What would be useful, for that minority, would be to...

I'm a bit confused by the version numbering; today's version is 1.6. I think the scoring is perhaps still a bit adrift? I have a Mary Ann FIRTH and an Ann FIRTH coming 14th in my result set. They have the same year of birth -- 1817(app) -- but that's it. Different place of birth, completely differen...

Many thanks, Peter. D'you know, I was expecting a right-click Ascending/Descending option, so very familiar from the Records window...

Sorry, didn't get chance to check 1.1, but 1.2 ran through my 12000  individuals in under two minutes. The results look interesting, clearly worthy of further study. Many thanks! Something that surprised me about the result set -- presumably a FH feature, not down to you, Mike -- was that although t...

It got about 30% of the way through my 12000 individuals before quitting with 'Not enough memory'. It would certainly be good to include optional checks on, for example, whether two apparently similar individuals have different parents, or whether they have conflicting census entries for the same ye...

Nick said: FH is seeing the file has changed and is reloading the portion of the file that AS has written up to that point. I have had this kind of thing reported a couple of times before and it does seem to be related to this. Make sure the file has finished saving before reloading it in FH. There ...

I can see where you're coming from, Mike, and I'm very largely in agreement. A plugin is an excellent solution to a minority or one-off requirement, and provides for a fast and effective response to a specific FH issue. It can also act as a useful prototype testbed for more complex software developm...

The only .fh extensions listed there are .fh, .fh_lua and .fh_proj -- the ones that I've previously assigned manually in the manner mentioned by John. Oddly, .ged isn't in the list, although I've assigned it also to FH, and the association works. Picking one at random, .fhdx (diagrams) doesn't appea...

The snag there is the need to repeat the process for .ged, .fh_data, .fh_proj, .fh_lua and probably others.

My Windows file associations for FH files seem to gave astray. Possibly this is a side-effect of removing the 5.0 beta version? Is there a better way of reinstating the associations than reinstalling 5.0?

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Very useful, Jane. Thanks.

If you display the tree and select Tree Pages > Tree Settings > Tree Info , then on the LHS of the window you can edit the tree's name and description. On the RHS of the window, there's a button to Export your family tree data, as a GEDCOM file, to your computer . FH will read that GEDOM. However......

The final beta test version was actually 5.0.0.7. The following version, 5.0.0.8 (or simply 5.0.0) is the current release version.

Try File > Print... and select Family Historian PDF as your printer. That printer should also show in the hardware list.

Mike said: Can you please confirm whether you are use genuine V4 Project structures, or Standalone GEDCOM. Genuine projects throughout. Can you double check that you have renamed the downloaded Plugin to Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings exactly. Double checked. Can you tell me the full f...

Mike wrote: Roger, you mention 'FH 5.0.0.7 on Win 7'. I presume that is the new FH V5.0 not the old FH 5.0 Beta. Sorry for being unclear -- it's still the beta version (I was aiming to use the plugin to capture my beta settings for transfer to the 5.0 public release). Also, I should probably have st...

Just tried V1.1 with FH 5.0.0.7 on Win 7. The plugin starts ok, but after a couple of seconds displays this error:

The FHUG news item which states:

Check out http:/www.family-historian.co.uk for more information.

has a non-functioning link

Personally, I'd hold off adding it to the store until (a) it had been trialled by several other users, and (b) you've finished the necessary polishing. But the concept is great, and I'm strongly in favour of making it available (preferably superseding Jane's version, to avoid confusion).

In 5.0.0.3 the fhGetItemText() function has been removed and replaced by fhGetDisplayText() - see near the end of http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=forum&board=v5beta&op=displaysticky&num=5189 . However, there appear to be some issues with this new function at the moment, and a fix is ...

Thanks, Mike; that certainly works. But it would still be better if it could be neatly packaged within FH.

That's a nifty idea, John -- I've not come across the #BeginDate syntax before -- but unfortunately it doesn't work. The date displayed at the foot of each generated page stays implacably fixed at 01-Apr-2010 (using Firefox 7).

Thanks, Mike, but you missed the key phrase -- 'automatically updated'. What I'm hoping for is along the lines of:

Date: $DATE