Rob, I appears that you are referring to the hot spots on the Family View screen, where they are identified by tool tips. These are not the dangerous ones, since they don't update any data. I think they are a very poor design decision, especially for the two main people, since there are icons to do other navigation functions, making the screen rather inconsistent. Nevertheless, they are harmless, since changes to the screen tend to be very obvious to the user.
The dangerous hot spots are on the Individual Information screen, where the major data entry is done. There are no tool tips for these hot spots, and even if there were, they would not show up when Legacy is not the active window (which is the main reason for clicking on it). Those hot spots are actually HUNDREDS of times bigger than the visible dot or square which is pretending to be the active input area. Clicking INCHES AWAY from some of these dots and squares results in data being changed in fields which are not even visible on screen at the time of the click. That truly is dangerous. I only found out about hot spots after discovering over a hundred people in my file had been marked as Private, when I had not intentionally flagged any of them. That was easy to fix, but I don't want to do it every few days to make sure it hasn't happened again. And there is no telling how many people may have had sex changed, the never married status changed, or been switched between living and dead, since I've got individuals with all of those statuses. There's no way I can look at thousands of records all the time to make sure they haven't been accidentally changed. That is, if I would even know it. Over 99.99% of the individuals in my database are total strangers to me and their information is not stored in my memory. If I were capable of remembering all of this information, I wouldn't need a genealogy database, would I? I like Legacy very much, but I don't trust it at all. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Weiss Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 18:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] priorities - was: Names Re the hotspots, they are identified when yuo move the mouse over that particular area. For me, once I'm aware they exist, that is enough. Rob On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:46:53 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob, > The hidden hot spots...I'd forgotten about that issue. Can someone at > Legacy tell us what is being done to address that problem? > > Jon Raymond > St. Paul Park, MN 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
