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Table of Contents
Version 5.0, build 2018.01.25
Version 5.0, build 2017.11.10
- Added autocompletion in the search bar
- Added option
Clear cache when closing(important for a portable license when working on other people's computers) - Added Latvian interface language
- Fixed: when you open the object selection window or when you switch from the tree, the table does not scroll to the selected object
- Fixed: error while adding data from another data file
- Fixed: the width of the column in the brief information panel of the main window is not saved
- Fixed: incorrect work of filters in the table of places
- Fixed: blurred text in the family tree if the screen scale is enlarged
- Fixed: incorrect sorting of words containing letters with accents
- Fixed: the program hangs while saving (in rare cases)
- Fixed: the error of constructing a family tree which led to the program freezing in rare cases
- Other bug fixes
Version 5.0, build 2017.10.05
- SVG generated in Agelong Tree can be now opened correctly in CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator
- Corrected SVG for RTL languages (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew)
- In a tree with an intermarriage of blood relations, preference is given to the male line
- Sosa-Stradonitz system was added as one of numeration types in ascending lineage list; D'Aboville system and Konovalov format were removed from it
- Fixed: in case of intermarriages folding branches option worked incorrectly
- Fixed: error when saving a tree as a PNG file (on Mac)
- Fixed: filter that includes “Level of confidentiality” worked incorrectly
- Fixed:
Find on mapoption worked incorrectly with Internet Explorer - Fixed: on macOS High Sierra the popup menus collapsed right after appearing
- Fixed: error when exporting to Gedcom if there is a custom field of type “Place”
- Minor bugs fixed
Version 5.0, build 2017.09.11
- Export to XML and Gedcom
- Saving a large tree PNG image as several files
- Improved the photos view in lineage lists and Information windows
- Possibility to set either height or width of persons' photos in the tree
- Program suggests to pick from the spouses of the first parent when you edit the secong parent
- Possibility to choose size of the photos when saving the tree as SVG or HTML: original size, large (1200 pixels) or small (width 200 px). It allows to diminish the size of the SVG or HTML file when necessary
- If data is sorted by fields with numbers (age, dates, life span, days until anniversary), lines with empty value go at the end, not at the beginning
- New vesion reminder as a short text and as an icon showing availability of the newer version (in
All actionsmenu) - Blood relatives of adopted children can be now seen only in All Relatives tree
- Fixed: fields order in the edit window does not correspond to the fields order in the table
- Fixed: invalid sorting order of documents and events in the edit window
- Fixed: when saving the tree as SVG, HTML or PDF, the backgroud image was not saved
- Fixed:
Distance between branchestree option doesn't work - Fixed: the tree wasn't rebuilt automatically when parents were editied in the tree
- Fixed: incorrect import of ZIP archive on Mac
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Tatar and Persian (Farsi) interface languages added
Version 5.0, build 2017.06.15
- Ability to save large family trees as PNG file
- Correct photo orientation when creating document-photo
- Fixed: program didn't set date when creating document-photo
- Fixed: in person edit window documents (except from photos) couldn't be added
- Fixed: person's age was not calculated correctly
- Fixed: person's gender was not taken into consideration if events were added right after the first creation of a person
- Fixed: a person kept the incorrect parent in the “Birth” event after changing to a correct one
- Fixed: error when creating an event from the context menu of the events table
- Fixed: report contained short place name while the table showed a full one
- Fixed: error 1003 when activating Agelong Tree on Mac
- Fixed: error “Initialization error 1” when launching Agelong Tree on Windows
- Some more minor bugs fixed
- Armenian interface language added
Version 5.0
Main features
- Version for MAC
- A faster and safer database SQLite
- Fast tree and reports building due to table data caching, sorting in cache, couples and their children caching
- Fast program start (second and further ones) due to data caching
- Notes table for notes concerning the family tree research or other needs
- Notifications for newer versions
- Portable license for Windows (for portable discs)
Interface
- The photo size in edit window is 200 pixels wide
- Possibility to set a larger font in interface
- Better readability in tables due to lines highlighting
- Right alignment for RTL languages
- Photos are seen on the lines in the tables. Possibility to replace a photo with a tick (as in previous versions)
- Decoding URLs containg national symbols for their correct view
- Active URLs in tables, table reports and statistics reports
- Interface and data language choice window at the first start of the program
- Number of records is seen in the table headings
- Sources table, Families table and Notes table in the main program window
- In person's edit window the number of connected objects is seen in the tab headings
- Right alignment for RTL languages (e.g. Arabic)
Tree
- Horizontal family tree diagram: ancestors on the right or on the left
- Ajustable width, height or depth of the tree
- Table filters can be used in the tree
- A supercompact tree style added
- Several trees on different tabs can be shown simultaneously
- In tree node settings added buttons
Restore. The button is visible if the value differs from the value set in the tree node upper level. - In the tree blood siblings and uterine siblings are also labelled.
- Each field in the tree can be displayed in bold and in italics.
- Each field can be set as seen in the nodes of still alive or of the dead
- Each field can be set as seen in the nodes of men or women
- Field “Life years” added to the list of displayable fields
- Spouses can change their places in the tree if it helps to avoid intersections
- PNG image of the tree is saved with transparent background
- The tree can be saved as HTML (inside HTML – SVG vector graphics)
- If there are several spouses it is possible to collapse the branch of each spouse separately
- Fixed: in the blood relatives tree and in the all persons tree some persons were missing
- Speed of buildng a tree is increased
- Printing quality is improved (600dpi instead of 300dpi in Agelong Tree 4)
- In the tree printing mode it is possible to save the tree as PDF by pages
- In RTL languages (for example, Arabic) children range from the right to the left (according to the age)
Reports
- Flexible configuration of the contents and type of all reports
- Button for opening a built report in the browser (for printing, etc.)
- Getting statistics for an arbitrary list of table fields
- Ability to print and save statistics
- Ability to interrupt the process of building a report
- Documents related to the person (event, place) can be displayed in the information window and in the lineage list
- A more compact form of recording the event of the birth (adoption) of the child in the person information window and in the lineage list
- Relations degrees in a lineage lists built with all persons of the tree
- Ability to use the filters of the persons table to limit the list of persons in the lineage list
- When you save and export a lineage list to the browser, hyperlinks for the person inside this linage list are created
- Fixed: “out of memory” error when building large lineage lists
Search and filters
- If you do not give a filter a name, the name is taken from filter condition automatically
- Search history is saved in table and in the tree
- Empty date in the filter condition is processed correctly
Dates
- “A few days”, “Several months” in the age and life expectancy, if they are not known exactly
Show short valueoption for dates fields is transferred from field options to program options- Added
Two dates separatoroption in the program options
Persons
- You can see links to the person's brothers and sisters in the brief information panel;
- The contour of a person with an unknown photo depends on the person's age;
- Added an integer “Code” field, it is filled automatically. The code number is unique in the file.
- You can fill in more person's details on the main tab of the edit window: person's parents, birth and death places.
- The parts of the person's full name in the edit window go in the order set in the program options.
Events
- Added a standard event type “Common-law divorce”
- Added a standard event type “Church wedding ceremony”
Documents
- Added coordinates of documents
- In the documents table there is a column
Photo/Iconwhere you can see file icons and thumbnails of photos - The document view window displays a notification if the original file is not found in the document folder
- In the short information panel, a large icon of the document file is displayed (if not a photo)
- When you click on the file name of the document, the document opens in a program installed in Windows for files of this type
- Ability to view the HTML document directly in the document view window
- Search for a document on the map by its coordinates or by its place
- Support for TIFF graphic format
Places
- In the short and full names of the place you can see links to places of the higher hierarchy
Sources
- Added a field named “Type” (“Book or manuscript”, “Oral story”, “Website”)
- Added a field “Link (URL)”
Events types
- Ability to create secondary roles in the event
Agelong Tree 4 file import
- Import of data file from Agelong Tree 4 is available in Agelong Tree 5 for Windows:
All Actionsmenu –File–Import - Custom events “Church wedding ceremony” and “Common-law divorce” are imported as standard events in Agelong Tree 5
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