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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: [TMG] TMGW v5.0 Demo
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:55:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000608110356.0090dac0@pop.eudoramail.com>


wrote:
>So tell us please, Lee, what is in 5!
>
>We are dying out here to know!
>
>Is the interface a true Visual Basic one finally? Are data
>refreshes/database accesses more seemless than with 4? Has the GUI changed
>much?
>
>Get any screen captures? ;->

I don't think I can improve on the report given by Jim Byrum here on
Monday. He summed up the demo session very well. As has been noted on
here previously, TMGW v5.0 is being written in Visual FoxPro. I can't
really comment on the data refreshes/database access being more seemless
than v4.0 as all we saw was a demo of what is coming. What we did see
looked very good.

The interface is changed somewhat, but will be recognizable by most users.
For example, the Person View is changed somewhat but has the same basic
data with a default of two lines for each tag (whereas we now only have one
line to a tag. One the big difference is the ability to show more than
one dataset on the screen are the same time and the ability for two (or
more?) persons to be able to work on the same dataset via a network. These
windows may be fully adjustable in size allowing you to position them asw
needed on your screen

Another big difference is that v5.0 will work with projects which consist
of multiple datasets. A project may consist of your main dataset which is
"unlocked" (meaning it may be changed) plus zero or more datasets which
may or may not be "unlocked". Most of the time, the other datasets will be
"locked" (meaning that you will not be able to change them). These other
datasets may be ones that you have received from other users or that you
have created from GEDCOM files and that you may eventually want to import
some or all of the data into your main dataset. With the datasets from
other users being locked, you don't have to take special pains not to alter
them in any way and can be sure they are as you received them.

With all the datasets in a Project, you may see all the individuals in each
dataset in a single Picklist if you wish or in separate Picklists for each
dataset. Using the standard windows' 'copy/paste' procedure, you may copy
data from one dataset to another (assuming the "to" dataset is "unlocked").

One point about projects is that while the Picklist may show every person
in each dataset in the Project, you may "copy/paste" from one dataset in
the Project to another dataset, you may not connect one person in one
dataset with a person in another dataset.

While I don't know what all is on the "official" wish list, I suspect that
the majority if not all of the most requested items will be included.
Thus nearly all users that have requested a change or addition for TMG will
be well pleased when v5.0 is released.




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