Family Historian User Group

Mike

Thanks very much for creating this.

Please find the 2 screenshots below of the result of running it. The first one is OK but the second quite clearly has a problem.

Mike

If you wouldn't mind doing the checking plugin. I can then run it and send the results of that along with the code above to Codeweavers all in one go.

Mike I have changed the name as you suggested and FH still works as do the plugins that require a COMPUTERNAME . I have had two responses from Codeweavers copied below. 1: I know you can access and edit the registry using http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/registry_keys in Cross...

Mike I am just on my way out for the evening. The first name was what Codeweavers suggested. I will try changing it for something else tomorrow and make sure it continues to work. If it does I can reword the KB appropriately. I think the suggested workaround is a good idea for AS. No problem with re...

Mike,

I have no idea I have asked the question of Codeweavers.

I have updated the Knowledgebase article.

Mike Does anything like C:\ProgramFiles\Ancestral Sources\Ancestral Sources.exe exist? If not, then can you locate where Ancestral Sources is installed in the Crossover file system. Yes it does see screenshot Screen Shot 2014-02-20 at 13.47.45.png No error messages are shown only this Screen Shot 20...

Update:

Even with Ancestral Sources in the same Bottle the plugin says it is not installed. It makes no difference whether AS is running or not.

Mike Yes I am running those versions. I am going to try putting Ancestral Sources in the same Bottle as Family Historian and see if that resolves that issue. The Backup folder is a weird issue and seems to be a bug in Crossover. Creating a Backup folder with the Tools dialog rather than the plugin d...

Mike as I said yesterday I wasn't going to check out the other things you asked until today. I have now done as asked and the details are below. FH & AS Help buttons ~ Do these work OK? Yes they do no issues can be opened from the Crossover application menu and within the FH or AS app too. Ancestral...

Are you saying that FH can use that to create PDF output via the Print option and selecting PDFWriter? Yes I am Run the latest Ancestral Sources Data Entry Plugin and check its Help and Advice and Set Window Fonts buttons work OK, and that AS is invoked correctly. As I said earlier there is a probl...

None of the suggested Windows PDF printer work under Crossover . Doing some research on the Codeweavers website it is not possible to add Windows printer drivers. Crossover relies on MAC printer drivers BUT doesn't display the MAC print dialog. I have found a free PDF printer for the MAC that instal...

File > Print Preview displays correctly. Save as HTML works fine, displays in Firefox with both text and images. The RTF file on further investigation does not show images in the default MAC rtf viewer. However, opening it in Word does display the images. Diagrams: Print preview works fine. Save as ...

Mike Crossover (CodeWeavers) only support 'official' ports of software. Unfortunately Family Historian is NOT an official port and so is not supported. They help out where they can. I will try them with the PDF printer issue. The only way to access the MAC PDF printer is through the MAC print dialog...

Mike

Yes the Nova driver is correctly installed as a printer.

It is not possible to select the MAC pdf printer from Crossover.

Yes I did mean reports not charts my mistake

Mike Some more diagnosis. Diagrams are fine they display and print perfectly. Reports are the issue. Selecting any report (I have tried about 10 so far) both in-built and custom have a problem when selecting any MAC printer (not FH PDF printer see below). The on screen display only shows the multime...

Mike,

Thanks for the work you have done on that section so far. I will do some screenshots of the tweaks necessary and update it.

Mike Great news I have had an email from Codeweavers about resolving the issue with the plugins not running. It is an easy fix and just requires editing of one file. I have made the edit and all the non-working plugins are now working. I will document what is required and add it to the knowledgebase...

Mike I can't find a way to set the default application to a Crossover application on the MAC however I have managed to do the file association in Firefox and now Open With works fine and the plugins now install rather than having to import them. They still won't run though as expected. I had v5.07 i...

Mike I have done a bit more testing today but need to do some more. Custom diagrams download and install properly from the links in the Knowledge Base and the normal Open With dialog (auto-import). Charts seem to be a problem they download and install correctly as above. They run but only show multi...

Mike I have tried a couple more queries and they do load with a download and open with fine exactly as on Windows. I have tried a couple more plugins and cannot get them to open in Family Historian. I will do some more playing with this as it may just be a file association issue. I meant that I have...

Mike (1) Auto Importing As the plugins wouldn't auto-install I didn't bother to try the queries with auto-install I just went straight to the FH File > Import/Export > Import > Query... command? (2) Plugins Not Working Thanks for the explanation of what is causing the error I will pass it on to the ...

I have added the custom query Census by year ancestors 2 and this runs perfectly. I have also run several of the standard queries without issue. So it looks like it is just some plugins that cause a problem.

Mike At the moment I use a desktop PC for most of my genealogy research and it is that install that I was using for the other thread. I also have a Mac Book Air that I use as my laptop and it is on that I am trying to get FH running on. At some stage when I have it all sorted on the Air I will proba...

An update. A lot of plugins won't run even though they install :cry: They will not install as part of the download process but must be imported. I will pull together a list of those that work and those that don't for inclusion in the Wiki. Ancestral Sources will not work as a plugin BUT it can be 'b...

Mike Looking at the Gedcom 5.51 standard the PROB is very limited in the data it can contain. Without getting into an in depth discussion about the different ways we record data the data entry needs imho to be more structured and not just free text. This lack of structure is one of the failings of a...