I have the same problem. There are certain places in Legacy, most notably in the child area of the family view, where my mouse clicks are not consistently recognized. I’ve never been able to resolve why this only occurs for only a few users. It’s some sort of hardware/device driver issue, but why it seems to only occur in Legacy and only in some portions of Legacy is a mystery.
With respect to your specific problem of deleting a child, an alternative method is to click on the child sorting/status icon in the upper right of the children section of the family view and delete from there. You can also add children and do other operations on the children from there. From: Vivian Gullickson White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Right clicking or clicking Since the new release of Legacy 8 clicking does not work for me or is extremely slow. If I want to add a child clicking will not work and I have to use the pull down menu. If I wish to disconnect a child from it's parents or a spouse I have to click multiple times in order to get the menu to come up. Is there a setting to change? I am a woman of little patience so it gets frustrating. I have an Acer Aspire with 6GB RAM and a 1T disc with less than half in use. I do have the latest version of Legacy. I have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, shut down, restarted, clicked my heels together three times, wished upon a star, and threw a coin in the fountain, etc. If there is another way to disconnect a spouse or child, I would use it but these are the only instructions. *** To reach this screen, right-click on a person on the Family or Pedigree View and choose Unlink / From Parents. When you choose to unlink an individual from their parents, you are telling Legacy to break the tie that exists between that person and their parents and their siblings (if any). Unlinking a person does not delete the individual from the Family File. It simply disconnects him or her from having a child relationship to the current parents and a brother-sister relationship with any siblings. Before completing the unlink command, Legacy displays a window containing the name of the parents and a list of any siblings currently linked to the individual. You can then complete the unlinking by clicking Yes or abort the command by clicking Cancel. Looking for a solution, Vivian Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
