Family Matters® Copyright 1995 - 2009 Ray Nicklas dba MatterWare All Rights Reserved 24 December 2008 Version Release Information: Family Matters **** 1.00 through 2.00 - Mid 1994 through Sep 1995 **** - Development, beta, and widely distributed release **** 2.01 Oct 1995 through 2.42 April 1996 **** - Various updates and releases of increasing capability **** 3.00 Sep 1996 through 3.31d August 1998 **** - Major upgrade followed by releases of increasing capability Family Matters 97 **** 4.00-4.02b (beta tests) - January-November 1998 **** - Beta test releases of 32-bit Access97-based Family Matters 97 **** 4.03 - January 1999 through 4.14e - January 2000 **** - Various updates and releases of increasing capability - Added ability to recognize dates missing qualifier/year space like "C1900" - Added relationship to Person List View entries - New Picture View form and Picture Report incorporated - Added ability to preview current Picture report from Picture View - Changed Web generation dialog to tabbed control, ability to control family page footer, ability to customize family pages, set person sort - Added capability to Event Dictionary to specify events that can be part of web site, and included ability in web generation - Added option to choose between Windows system colors vs. FM Classic colors - Activated Show Picture on Person View - Prevented "Changes Only" web site generation when header information or length, appearance, site name, or other stuff has changed - Added Sort option to Person List View **** 4.20 - April 2000 through 4.20e - November 2000 **** - Various updates and releases of increasing capability - Added Citation View for Source Citation support - Expanded all Views with citation support - Deleted Family View, moving data to new More display on Family Group View - Added display of colors chosen on Web Generation dialog - Improved robustness of GEDCOM Import **** 4.20f - February 2001 through 4.20j1 - December 2001 **** - Various updates and releases of increasing capability - Set child ordering on GEDCOM output to be oldest first - Removed birth date date from Web outout persons as Living - Made Picture events sort by date in web output - Added choice of retaining citations when source deleted - Improved handling of relationship invalidation on Group View - Improved index.htm for better web robot indexing - Web generation now stops when family table error recognized - Added output of surnames.html for Surname Helper inclusion - On Repository delete, announce how many sources linked to it - On WebSite changes generation, include files with changed background - Improved Database Compact & Repair **** 4.21 - January 2002 through 4.21f - September 2004 **** - Added Access Snapshot report option - Added Picture View text generation of included persons - Added GEDCOM input line text to Import error message - Added warning before GEDCOM import into existing file - Added better import support of PAF _UID and _AKA tags - Improved key word output to web pages - Allowed for pasting parent link on Group View - Changed MatterWare business address **** 4.22 - January 2005 through 4.22e - August 2006 **** - Added Forward button on all Views - Replacement of View ScaleFactor with Font size behavior - Eliminated redundancy in Surnames.html, and inclusion errors - Added choice to sort Children births with Family events in Web output - Added choice to sort Pictures with Person events in Web output - Added choice to limit Picture size in Web output - Ordered Person links on Picture web pages by birth date - Supressed Web output of person details if Living - Updated Family Matters splash screen **** 4.23 - July 2007 **** - Updated Copyright statement and splash screen - Fixed WebForm. 7600.3021=No current record error - Fixed name blank vs Null family sort ordering - Fixed FamListReport request for values using Access 200x - Fixed PrintForm surname combo hangup using Access 200x **** 4.23a - September 2007 **** - Fixed WebForm. 7100 Item not found in this collection error **** 4.23b - October 2007 **** - Fixed StartupStuff. A000 invalid procedure call error - Added option to open PersonView when GroupView child or parent not found **** 4.23c - December 2008 **** - Fixed GEDCOM output for second children of parents not in a Group - Fixed SourceForm resize PersonList error - Added VerboseDate to DecForm, GroupReport and IndReport - Fixed form resize errors - Updated Copyright - Set off web picture description, place and occasion fields - Corrected StartupStuff Path Not Found errors - Added “Show Only Relations” to PictureView - Improved editing ability in EventView Places - Interpreted more extensive date modifiers **** Coming Soon **** - Use of Access 2007 in 5.00 et al - Other user-requested features IMPORTANT, if you are updating from a 16-bit version (3.xx) to a 32-bit version (4.xx) you MUST do a full install, and run Setup.exe DO NOT install, unzip, or copy any of Family Matters' files into your old 3.xx Family Matters installation directory. ALSO, your 16-bit version must be at least 3.20 for Family Matters to be able to use your existing database. If you have the entire new installation set of Family Matters, of a version later than what is installed, you can go ahead and run setup.exe to install the new version. OTHERWISE, to update from previous 5.xx version, registered or unregistered, just COPY (please don't run SETUP) the following files into their designated directories. If you have Windows Vista or laterr, you must copy the files onto your desktop before copying (or moving) them into the designated directories. File Name Version Last Updated ------------------ ------------------------------- In your Family Matters 97 Program folder (perhaps "C:\Program Files\Family Matters 97\") Famat97.hlp 4.22 Famat97.cnt 4.21 Famat97.mde 4.23c FMempt97.mdb 4.20 License.txt 4.23c Order.txt 4.23c ReadMe.txt 4.23c Versions.txt always (you're reading Versions.txt) Manual97.exe 4.22 In your data directory (perhaps "C:\My Documents\Famat97\FmData\"): FMsamp97.mdb 4.20