On 19 May 2006 at 20:30, Alice L McVearry wrote: > Well, Arnie, I must confess that I, too, have recently resorted to using > FTM for my trees. I bought TreeDraw Legacy and find the learning curve > pretty steep. It's so much easier just to GEDCOM to FTM and push the > button. But even FTM doesn't do what I want it to do. Like you, I would pay > extra for a Legacy with superior charting capabilities. -- Alice
In which case Millennia (or someone else) should write a reporting program that works on the Legacy data files. PAF used to have a lot of add-on and third-party supplementary programs that would do this sort of thing - printing different kinds of reports, trees etc. There was one that printed reports on 3x5 cards, and another that printed them on 6x4 cards, and several more. Having them in separate programs would reduce program bloat in Legacy itself, and avoid the need for a hardware upgrade every time there is a software upgrade. In this respect it would be useful to take a lesson from Unix programmers, who make use of a lot of small programs that do one thing and do it well, rather than creating a huge program that tries to do everything, and ends up doing nothing very well. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://methodius.blogspot.com Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
