Hopefully if enough complaints are forthcoming, they will bring back the pop-up information boxes on the family view. I have been playing with Legacy 8 for a few days and I copied my family file to it. I paid for the deluxe version yesterday, thinking that it would unlock that feature. It didn’t.
I am finding the list view and right clicking quite annoying after experiencing the better, easier way. At least I had the good sense to keep my Legacy 7.5 with my family file intact because that’s what I have gone back to using. I learned a valuable lesson though. In the future, I will do a thorough try-out and ask questions before purchasing the product. From: marion wimsett Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pop-up boxes in family view I would have to agree with Kathy - if you have 12 or 13 children in a family the scrolling list means you have to use the scroll to see them all, whereas best fit shows all the children at a glance - which is usually what you need when searching. However the pop up information box was very useful to save extra strokes to see what information you may be missing or whether checking if the information you have belongs to one of the children. It was a time saving and useful addition - could we ask that one day it could be reintroduced please? On 18 March 2015 at 03:05, kaytt <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Sherry. That’s disappointing but it’s the way of the world .... when something works really well and we start depending on it, it will more than likely get changed. I guess I’ll right click because the scrolling thing is just too messy looking, and it doesn’t show all the information that the pop-up information boxes do. I fail to see the value in it. It also gives me a runtime error and closes the program if I click on more than one child in the list for editing purposes. Kathy From: Sherry/Support Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pop-up boxes in family view Popup Information boxes was removed from Family View - they were replaced by the Scrolling List (Grid) view, which can show a lot more information. Right click on a child, select View > Scrolling List (Grid) You can always right click on a child and select "Edit" as well. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM, kaytt <[email protected]> wrote: I’m trying to learn the Legacy 8 deluxe features and I noticed that the pop-up information boxes do not work in “family view”. I really depended on that feature a lot in previous versions. It made it so quick to check if anything was missing from an individual and you could click on the edit button if changes were needed. Now I have to move that person to the main person in order to see what I have and/or add a birth date or source, or whatever. It really slows things down when I have a list of children and I have to keep moving each individual to the main window to see if everything is as I want it. The pop-up information boxes work in pedigree view so it makes me wonder if I’m missing some setting. I checked the help file, and I have the little box to show pop-up boxes checked in the list of customised options. If that feature isn’t working, I hope they get it implemented very soon. Kathy 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
