I also did a search for "This individual never married" and found a whole bunch of them that apparently got tagged the same way. But that field extends all the way from its own check box to the "Private" check box!!! That's over half the width of the screen!!!
Both of those fields are scaring the heck out of me -- what appear to be large areas of blank screen real estate really actively control minute check boxes that change data with absolutely no warning. There's gotta be a safer way to handle both of these fields, since they are used only for rare exceptions and not on a routine basis. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Janetzko Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 14:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] The one thing that does drive me nuts about Legacy And now I know just HOW these people got set to Private! Thanks, Ron. Clicking on what appears to be a very large unused area of the screen in the individual view can, indeed, set the person to Private. I just did some mousing around in that area, and the entire width of the screen to the right of the word Private (the length of all 9 Tag fields), can turn on the Private check box. What good is a tiny check box if 1/4 of the width of the screen can also turn it on? That's a VERY dangerous field in my experience. It would be an excellent candidate for Microsoft's ubiquitous "Are you sure?" message box. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Klotz Zellhoefer Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 13:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] The one thing that does drive me nuts about Legacy I would not say it drives me nuts, but I do have some problems related to this, which stem largely from the way I usually work. Most often Legacy gets the right half of my screen, and a webpage or source document open on the left side. Of course often the display of the left side needs more than half the screen to be coherent/workable, so it is much clicking back and forth between the then-overlapped windows. Because the (say Family View) screen is so chock-full of live links to so many data pieces and boxes, one needs to be very careful where one clicks on an almost-buried Legacy window, hence it would be easy to unwittingly make something "private". I can't visualize a programming solution for this little dilemma, but perhaps there would be a better way....?? So it seems that it's a matter of being very careful about where one clicks when the Legacy window is mostly buried, or otherwise clicking it's icon on the taskbar instead. But, rather related to this, when working half-screen the tabs are too wide, requiring sometimes having to scroll between the 5 available tabs. That would seem curable more easily with the use of either smaller tabs or tab fonts, and would bring a ray of sunshine if that were so. It's a wish-list thing, not a drive-me-nuts thing! RonKZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "LegacySupport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 12 December, 2004 12:00 Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] The one thing that does drive me nuts about Legacy > Juli, > > Dave has tightened this up a bit, but with the language versions we're > working on and the fact that some languages have a lot longer word for > "private" than we do, a bit more space is reserved for the word in other > languages. > > Try clicking below or before the Private line, not right next to the word. > I need to retrain myself too <rbg> > > Thanks for using Legacy. > > Sherry > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > Thanks. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juli > Kearns > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 10:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LegacyUG] The one thing that does drive me nuts about Legacy > > I adore Legacy. I think it's great. It's wonderful. Ultra superlatives > all the way around. > > But there is something that just drives me nuts. It's the "private" box > at > the bottom of the individual screen. If you accidentally click just near > it > but not inside the box itself, then you accidentally end up with people > coming up private and when you have a huge file of people it's impossible > to > find the ones you have accidentally clicked private on who thus don't show > up when producing web pages. This drives me bonkers. If it could be > fixed > so they are only "private" if you click in the box instead of near it, > that > would be super. > > Juli > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
