Family Historian User Group

Simon Orde on the FHU List:
I do apologise for the delay. There is no single reason for this. Version 4 is a big release and there are numerous late-stage tasks to be done before we can release it, and we underestimated how long these would take. As I'm sure you appreciate, we have every motivation to get V4 out as soon as possible; but you wouldn't want us to release it before it's ready, and we won't.

Thank you all for your patience.

Simon Orde
List Administrator & Family Historian designer

I agree

I would rather wait until it is perfect.

There is nothing worse than a programme with continuous problems and patches to restore it.

We will win in the end.

Thanks

Trevor

I have V3 of FH will we be able to upgrade to V4 when it arrives?

V4 will be a paid for upgrade for V3. You will be able to either order a CD upgrade from My History or other providers or purchase a downloadable version from Family-historian.co.uk

Hi, like everyone else on the site I can't wait. Any update, is it still April?

Can't wait for the update. Is it still April, is there a date yet?

Any news yet? April is fast disapearing!

Come on, somebody must know when the update will be released.....

I have just preordered and the company said it was in production and would be with me 'by 1st May',


Does anyone know if gedcom census is compatable with v4?

Yes Gedcom Census will continue to work with v4.

Cheers

Nick Walker
Gedcom Census Developer

yay!

Now all I have to do is stop myself from hovering by the letter box every morning waiting for the delivery.....

David - I have been doing this for ages already. ) The best things are worth waiting for.

yes, but maturity was never my strong point.

I have been using FH since v2. despite the fact that my whole tree is pretty much brickwalled at the moment I still enjoy finding odd snippets of information and fleshing out the tree.

Some of the new features in v4 look really interesting. Wish I could see a screenshot of the new focus window and reworked property box....

How about it, Simon Orde? Tease us with a screenshot....

The reworked Property Box is of particular interest to me as I am hoping that resizing will make it easier to read as I have difficulty reading fonts below a certain size. Whilst I can increase to font size in the Records Window to a comfortable size this is impossible in the Property Box.

Simon,

Are you any closer to giving us a release date?

Thanks,
Sue

V4 is in manufacturing, which means the CDs are being made and the boxes printed, so baring some disaster, the boxes should be shipping from the end of April.

Margaret - the fonts for the property box are selectable.

If v4 is 'in Manufacturing' surely the code must be finalised. Can it not be released as a download now for those of us who plan to purchase the upgrade that way?

Will we get an e-mail when its ready to download?

Looking forward to downloading, although I shall have to wait until I get home to my BB connection because at the moment working with a mobile BB dongle and it is sllowww.

Jane,
By selectable do you mean that I will be able to set the font for the Property Dialogue at something like 12 point? I have the font for the Records Window set at Tahoma 12 point which is just right but I find the present size of font in the Propery Dialogue rather small.

Yes I think you'll find you can have various font sizes from very small up to very large (over 20).

Thanks Nick, that will make things so much easier.