Ron
Yes - GenBox insets the genealogical links between all the boxes - which you
have to do by hand in TreeDraw. These links are "active" so if you move a
son's box further away from his father's box then the link follows the box
and extends as necessary.
You could, for example, move the son's box to the other side of the chart
and the link would follow it. Obviously too much of that and the chart would
be a mass of lines - but a it is very useful when you want to offset the
boxes in a large family to improve the layout of a chart.
I'm not sure how much further we ought to discuss GenBox in a Legacy UG -
but I do think that Legacy could usefully look at the chart presentations
that its competitors are coming up with and enhance its own accordingly.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New TreeDraw V3?
David, when you say " Yes you can move boxes and lines around the page
in TreeDraw by selecting them - but the links don't remain between a moved
box and a non-moved box. In GenBox the link between two boxes remains
where ever you move the boxes to on the page." are you merely saying that
Genbox puts a line in but with Tree Draw you have to do it yourself? I ask
only because I do not know GenBox.
Ron ferguson
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From: "David Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New TreeDraw V3?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:53:45 -0000
Jeff
I also use a GEDCOM file from Legacy and then inport it into GenBox - and
this has worked perfectly well for me for several years.
Another advantage of GenBox is that it can produce an "All in One" chart
containing everybody. I'm not aware of any other charting programme that
does this. To produce the same chart in Tree Draw required weeks of
cutting and pasting.
Incidentally Ron - Yes you can move boxes and lines around the page in
TreeDraw by selecting them - but the links don't remain between a moved
box and a non-moved box. In GenBox the link between two boxes remains
where ever you move the boxes to on the page.
I would certainly recommend downloading the trial copy of GenBox and
playing with it.
David
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Janice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New TreeDraw V3?
Jeff,
You could export a GEDCOM from Legacy and then import that file into
GenBox. I have both programs and use that method with great success to
create charts in GenBox.
Bob
malkajef wrote:
Thank you. But I believe that Genbox is more than a charting program -
or am I wrong? From my reading of its website it is a full genealogy
program, not just a charting program. If your files are in Legacy how
do you use Genbox for your charting?
Jeff
----- Original Message ----- From: "David S Brookes"
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To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:36 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] New TreeDraw V3?
Hi Jeff,
Although I haven't spent much time with family tree charting, but when I
looked at Genbox, I felt it was far more intuitive than anything else I
had
seen, and the only thing I could find to chart 'everything' on one page
without fussing about too much. Had a little look at TreeDraw and
didn't
find it that intuitive. Intuitive is important for me - I just now need
to
learn to spell it without the spell check!!
Best Wishes
David
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
malkajef
Sent: 25 November 2006 04:44
To: LegacyUserGroup
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New TreeDraw V3?
Genbox does have a lot of interesting features, and in its comparison
chart
it showed a lot of features it had that Legacy did not.
Would someone more familiar with Genbox, compare it with Legacy,
especially
in what features Genbox is inferior to Legacy. (The Legacy comparison
webpage does not mention Genbox).
Jeff
David Street wrote:
I would suggest that another major problem is the inability to link
the arrows to the boxes so that if you move a box the family links
move with it. Most flow charting programs and organisation charting
programs have this as a matter of course, and at least one competitive
family tree charting
program (Genbox) does it very well. Manipulating a tree of 1000 boxes
to fit it into an A0 size page was impossible with Tree Draw Legacy but
a
doddle with Genbox.
David Street
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