New Version 3.3

[John Nairn, Developer]

I just posted GEDitCOM II, version 3.3. It was validated in MacOS Tahoe (I only noticed one cosmetic issue and not all users had that). The biggest change is a rewrite to the "Create Generations Book" extension to use new "Internal Scripting" methods. It runs abut 10 times faster and restores prior option to automatically typeset the book for you. To make this extension rewrite possible, many new features were added to "Internal Scripting" language (as documented in update GEDitCOM Editor).

This new version is also ready to work with a companion GEDitMobile iPhone app coming (very) soon from another developer (another posting will be made when it is available). You can transfer genealogy data, including multimedia images, maps, and HTML-formatted notes, and view all on your iPhone in GEDitMobile. GEDitCOM II has an new extension that can import notes written in GEDitMobiile into your documents in GEDitCOM II.

Several other bug fixes and minor improvements are explained in the "What's New" help topic.

John Nairn

[John Nairn, Developer]

Curiously some posting dates and "Last Update:" displays did not work for me in FireFox on one computer. I fixed it using ChatGPT that explained FireFox aggressively caches cascading style sheet (css) files. The new web site uses a new option in my css files to display some dates. The solution was a "hard" reload of the page using Cmd-Shift-R (and hard reload of one page fixed it for the entire web site too).

The dates seem to be correct in Safari without needing a hard reload. I did not try Chrome or any other browser.

John Nairn

[theboo...@gmail.com]

Thanks for this, John. It's very nice.

I like the new cosmetic improvements and I did create a fairly small Generations book which worked well.

I did have an odd experience while moving the unzipped app into Applications - I'm using Tahoe. It constantly asked permission to replace all manner of files. I forget the names, but they each had a .nib extension. Each time I said okay, the file name changed but not the extension.

I got fed up quickly and stopped, rebooted the Mac, and did it again. All good that time.

Cheers

Mick

[John Nairn, Developer]

The download is not zip file, but a dmg file (although like a zip it is compressed). I have not seen the issue you mentioned, but when I dragged from mounted disk image to Applications folder when a prior copy was still there, intsead of replacing it, Apple left old one intact and copied an alias to the disk image. That is certainly not what one would want. The fix is to delete old version first and then drag the new ones in place. When the drag correctly installs new version, there should be slight delay as it copies that file rather then just creating an alias (which takes no time).

John