I've produced a new update to Ancestral Sources that I'm calling v7.4 because it has a couple of new features that I felt made it more than just a minor update. I won't announce it properly (via FHUG news, knowledge base, etc.) until I'm reasonably happy that there are no big issues with it. So if you download it and have any problems please let me know so I can fix them ASAP.
What's new in Ancestral Sources v7.4:
- There are now options to specify whether census columns with no data entered are included in the source text produced by Autotext. This can be set on a field-by-field basis in census templates or via a global option.
- There is now a new toolbar button and corresponding menu item to add an empty row to the census grid. This is to make it easier to enter details of people who don't appear to be related to the family and don't need to be added as individual records, e.g. lodgers. Those individuals can simply be entered directly into the grid to appear in the source text generated by Auto-text, but will not included as individual records in the family history file.
- The CustomID auto-text tag wasn't working for census sources. This was reported by Peter Rollin and is now fixed.
- An issue crept into the 7.3.5 release which stopped multiple images being added without closing and re-opening the image window. This is fixed.
- Also fixed a recent issue that had appeared where the Keyword and Function buttons were not visible on the Auto Text Template Screen.
- Also fixed a display issue with the source/image template control on the options screen.
- Tool tips that appear when the mouse pointer hovers above various options will now remain on screen for longer to make them easier to read. This was requested by ChrisV on the FHUG forums.
- Made various improvements to the way that Ancestral Sources displays information on computers running at scaling other than 100%.
- Kai Chandler pointed out that although the option to add a blank census row was working from the tool bar button, the corresponding menu item wasn't. This is now fixed.
- Made a change to the installer that should allow AS to be installed on Windows running on Arm processors.
- If you've manually edited the census source text generated by auto-text then you will no longer be warned that the 'Fit' button hasn't been clicked (if you have this option selected). Thanks to David2416 on the FHUG forum for pointing out this unnecessary warning.
- Fixed an issue reported by David2416 on the FHUG forums where the dialog reporting a change to the source title could be asked multiple times.
- AS would crash if source text containing an individual list was copied into the source note and the link clicked on. I fixed this.
- An FHUG user Kenfig (Mike) reported an issue with colours changing if the last column was deleted. I think this has now been fixed.
- I am hopeful that this update will fix an issue reported by Andrew Braid, Richard Hyland and others where the thumbnail version of a linked image displays very faintly so that it can be very difficult or impossible to see. Thanks in particular to Richard and Andrew for helping me to track down the cause of this problem.
- I totally rewrote the part of AS that deals with rich-text hyper-linked individuals as I realised the way I was dealing with them had limitations. This was prompted by some issues raised by David2416 where AS could create some incorrect GEDCOM related to source notes, caused by some changes I made in v7.4.3.
The 32 bit version is available to test here: Ancestral Sources v7.4.4 32 Bit
If in doubt, try the 64 bit version.