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Finally some time
Well after what seams like a year doing real work I finally have a little time for Gramps. I have made the first steps in a gtk printing module that has the promise of a really nice printing interface...
View ArticleImproving Reports
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the Gramps report system. In my mind, writing database code is routine and thankless, and writing GUI code is uninteresting. But the report system holds...
View ArticleGramplets
I looked into the Gramplet code Doug wrote for 3.0 for the first time. Some really complicated stuff is in there, but it does have some elegance. Mutual referral (A points to B points to A) is...
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Gramps is not a web browser …. yes?
I am currently working at integrating the GeoView Serge contributed inside of GRAMPS. GeoView is a way of displaying your genealogy information on a map. This has been tried before in GRAMPS with...
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Usability improvement or not
We often recieve the remark of users that not all information is shown nicely in the editors GRAMPS has, and that some functionality is not easily discovered. Our common reply is that the editors are...
View ArticleAlternative Interfaces
Writing code to find out something about your family tree in Gramps isn’t particularly hard, but it is tedious. And I find the more tedious code is to write, the more errors I make. Let’s take a look...
View ArticleMultiple Surnames
Work has started to allow for multiple surnames, based on GEP 21. Work is happening in a development branch and upgrade is finished, as well as import/export to xml. Still a lot to test. Daring...
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Final Multiple Surnames
The Interface A probably final form of multiple or compound surnames has now landed in the development branch. At the same time the layout of the person editor had to change somewhat to accommodate the...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Some Thoughts on GRAMPS For Windows
On the gramps-developers mailing list, lcc recently pointed to an old blog post on the topic of Some Thoughts on GRAMPS for Windows. The blog post was written by Tamura Jones, someone active in...
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Towards an on-line version of Gramps
Deadlines are great, even if arbitrary: my family is getting together for a family reunion this summer, and I decided that the event would make a great goal to try to finish-up Gramps-Connect, the...
View ArticleUsing Prolog to Analyze your Family Tree
I teach a little of Prolog in both Artificial Intelligence and in Programming Languages. Prolog is a language for entering facts, and letting the system deduce new facts based on those. A standard...
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