FHSWIN Changes from 1998-2001
This documents changes made during the First period of work on FHSWIN between October 1998 and September 2001
- 09/03/01 - Correct error in importing death dates; Changed year in Product Header to 2001
- 01/21/01 - Correct error in FHSWChld when selecting child for display having ID number of more than 3 digits. (Only last 3 digits of ID number were being used to select record for display.)
- 05/08/00 - Correct error that occured when importing a PAFv21 GEDCOM file which (incorrectly) included duplicate FAMS tags within an II record (the program would loop when "Reversing Sequence of Children")
- 03/03/00 - Change vertical and horizontal box chart programs to recognize new option for printing dates for which an option setting of "A" (for "All" dates) will cause the marriage termination dates to be shown when marriage information is printed on the chart.
- 02/24/00 - Add form FHSWADRS for displaying/updating/entering address information; corrected error in form FHSWSPSE which made it impossible to delete a marriage record if it had comments (or addresses) associated with it; corrected error in form FHSWCHLD which limited the number of children shown to 10 after the first time it was used.
- 01/21/00 - Updated form FHSWChld to support rearranging the order of children; also changed to allow selecting child for display in form FHSWUPDT by double clicking on the child's line in the displayed list (without having to click the "Select" button)
- 01/14/00 - Add form FHSWChld for showing Children
- 12/10/99 - Correct "Overflow" error that occurs when printing a report with more than 32767 lines
- 11/10/99 - Correct failures of relationship calculator after first use
- 11/06/99 - Correct failure to export Long Address records in MailMerge export
- 11/05/99 - Correct errors in file update program (changes to place names not redisplayed correctly, et. al.)
- 09/23/99 - Correct error (loop/lockup) that occurred when deleting one of multiple marriages
- 09/19/99 - Error Corrections: country field of long address records were not exported; birth places were not imported; birth, marriage places were not updated under file update option; "Restore" fields while updating name/marriage records working incorrectly; Invalid dates in file headers; error messages shown if default family file does not exist when FHSWIN is started; after family file is initialized for first time, options still "greyed" out until FHSWIN is restarted; changed default locations of forms on screen
- 09/06/99 - Use chart printing symbols from printer setup table even when printing charts to the screen; minor changes to file update option et. al.
- 08/13/99 - Correct errors when reading dates from screen in YYYY.MM.DD format; provide support for "Update Family File" option, including Display and Update of Name and Marriage records, and display and update of Name and Marriage record comments; also support for display of parent information
- 03/01/99 - Correct error that occurs in Datecalc when MM>12
- 02/27/99 - Change Date Calculator so that Calendar Type can be changed while the calendar is visible
- 02/25/99 - Add "Absolute" date format in which the date is represented by the number of the day from the beginning of the Julian calendar. Correct some anomalies that occurred at the beginning and end of the range of valid calendar dates (01-01-0001 thru 12-31-9999).
- 02/23/99 - Add form FHSWDCLC to provide Date Calculator function
- 01/23/99 - Change to handling of messages (remove blinking cursor in response messages);
- 01/22/99 - When "List" button is clicked in form FHSWSLCT, the name list will always be created from the current selection set; If the mouse is used to hilite a single character in the text of a message, then that character will be returned to the program as a response to the message when the mouse button is released
- 01/14/99 - Added ability to search for "Changed (Y/N/A)" records to form FHSWSLCT ("Y" locates name records that have changed; "A" locates name records which have changed or have extended records that have changed; "N" locates records for which neither name record nor any extended records have changed)
- 01/13/99 - Corrected failure to increment counters during Gedcom Import; form FHSWVIEW will not be called after import if there were no errors; When printing LISTs, if both comments and latest residence are requested, then will print comments for the address record
- 01/11/99 - Correct "Subscript out of Range" when returning to Relationship Calculator; Correct failure to clear some fields of form FHSWRCLC when returning to it; allow Family File dataset names in form FHSWFFDF to have a drive identifier as part of name (to override use of "Family File Path" for locating the datasets and allow individual datasets to be on different diskettes in the A: and B: drives)
- 01/09/99 - Add form FORMRCLC for calculating relationships between family file records
- 12/31/98 - Add "Change date" and counters to Family File statistics in form FHSWFFDF; add button to "Reset" change date and counters; allow selecting either File Definition Report or Family File Summary report when "Report" button is clicked in FORMFFDF;
- 12/28/98 - Add form FHSWFFDF for making changes to the family file setup table
- 12/14/98 - correct (?) determination of average print character width; add printer orientation setting to FHSWPRNT; add LANDSCAPE entry to printer setup table
- 12/11/98 - Add form FHSWPRNT for making changes to printer/page setup table; change format of .PDF (printer definition file); changes to FHSWIN documentation file;
- 11/29/98 - Added "Conversion" option to "Utilities" menu to perform "Long Address" and "Long Place Name" conversions that were handled by F7 option of GEDCOM program in Sept 97 update
- 11/28/98 - Correct some errors: Lock up when performing validation utility with output going to screen; unable to print single family group report; inconsistencies in use of "Counters" button on utility form; et al (Late in day, corrected erroneous ID#s in data validation report)
- 11/27/98 - Add support for Pointer and Data Validation utility options; add "Counters" button to utility program form; correct error in exporting place names to GEDCOM file; et al
- 11/26/98 - Correct error in ancestor lineage numbers in horizontal box ancestor charts; correct failure to use box datawidth from option settings in horizontal box charts
- 11/25/98 - Add support for GEDCOM Export/Import Utility; update FHSWIN description and documentation
- 11/21/98 - Add support for MailMerge Export Utility
- 11/12/98 - Correct errors in msg text; Change procedure for location of messages
- 11/06/98 - Corrections to errors in updating option settings, et.al.
- 11/04/98 - Added FHSWINIT.DAT to FHSWIN.ZIP file (it had changed during the addition of Horizontal Box chart program)
- 11/02/98 - Added Horizontal Box chart options (Ancestor, Descendant, Family Path); changes to correct variety of reported and discovered errors
- 10/25/98 - Changed font to "MS Line Draw" for other fields that display information that may have been entered using the DOS version of FHS; resized and rearranged fields on form FHSWMAIN
- 10/24/98 - Changed FHSWINPK to include the FHS support files so that installation can be independent of the Sept 97 update of FHS; suggest installing FHSWIN in directory other than FAMILY directory; changed screen font for the text box in form FHSWLIST and for the Option Grid in FHSWRPT to "MS Line Draw" which has symbol set similar to that of MSDOS.
- 10/22/98 - Add preliminary version of FHSWIN programs to this site