Documentation of genie | ||||
Genie is a dialog based program whose look is shown below. The four Family Tree buttons (Simple Progeny, Fancy Progeny, Simple Pedigree, and Fancy Pedifree) require that a name be entered in the box to their left. Genie looks for names that match what was entered and asks for confirmation. Then it creates the tree and saves it as an HTML file in one of four sub folders of results: ProTreeS, ProtreeF, PedTreeS, and PedTreeF. The Options button lets you input parameters for the family trees to be made. When a fancy tree is requested Genie looks for pictured named results/background.jpg to use as background. If it cannot find it, the backgound is left blank. The XML to HTML button converts the XML files from the database into HTML files stored in results/HTML. It is advisable to do the transformation before constructing any family trees. The Make Indices button creates lists of the files made by genie. It should be used at the end of each session with Genie. The Message Board contains diagnostic messages from the program. Text in black is a brief status report. Text in red explains the report in cases of failure. In this case we asked the program to construct a progeny tree for Tom and Tom has no children. (We probably meant to ask a pedigree tree for him.) The text in green is displayed when the fist request for a family tree (or the XML to HTML conversion) is made. The name of the folder for the results is given as subfolder of the "My Documents" folder. If it is not a subfolder of "My Documents", then the full pathname is given.
Restore Defaults does not affect the choice of the genealogy folder but restores the backround images and the choices of style to default values and it closes the Options dialog window. Finished simply closes the Options dialog window.
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