| SeeGEDCOMX 0.8b2 - Display lists of people in
GEDCOM documents. SeeGEDCOMX
is used to display lists of
people in GEDCOM documents;
draw ancestor, descendant and
family trees; extract people
from a GEDCOM according to
year of birth, place of birth,
name, etc; and generally to
browse your way around a
GEDCOM document in a WWW-like
way. Its fast, but does need a
fair bit of memory. The input
database is read pretty
quickly; 500 kilobytes is
interpreted in a second or two
on the slowest PowerMac. When
a GEDCOM file is opened
SeeGEDCOMX displays a window
containing a listing of the
all the individuals in the
file. This is called a Group
view and looks a lot like a
List View in the MacOS Finder.
There are folder icons for
each surname, with drop
triangles that you use to
display more information. This
is the starting point for
browsing through the entire
database. Its as easy as
navigating in the Finder
itself, or using a Web
browser. SeeGEDCOMX has
unusual and (in my opinion!)
rather nice ways of extracting
parts of a GEDCOM database
whether as new GEDCOM files,
reports for use with a word
processor (RTF), or as plain
text. There is limited support
for editing a GEDCOM document.
This is an area where the
program is being actively
developed and feedback is
requested. |
SeeGEDCOMX 0.8b2
