The Narrative Report has the automatic thumbnail and PDF Genomap generation features mentioned elsewhere. One change from those posts is that thumbnails for Svg & Pdf images can now be larger than the original, i.e. stretched to fit the label. This allow for say a background picture. Also automatic defaulting if either Inkscape or Irfanview are not installed. (e.g. no PDFs and/or no thumbnails)

The Descendants Report has more minor changes, apart from those outlined below. Primarily the reporting for single parents has been improved.

Both Reports now have a facility to localize the Configuration Parameters dialog and also the messages displayed to the message area and log during the report generation. So these can now be in a different language to the report output.

This has been achieved by moving all messages that are displayed during generation from Dictionary.xml to a new section, GenerationMessages, Config.xml. This is all but three of the Error messages, all warning and parameter messages and a few others. The three error messages remain because they can be generated before the Config file is opened.

You can now provide a translation of Config.xml in your custom skin, e.g. ConfigFR.xml and the script will then take the Config Params descriptions and messages from this file. To do this the script needs to know the the language translation you are using for GenoPro itself. Unfortunately there is currently no in-built way of determining this and so you will need to create and set a Document Custom Tag, BaseLanguage, in your .gno file. e.g. set to FR to use ConfigFR.xml. Note however that the skin titles for dropdown list of skins available will still be taken from Config.xml. Hopefully GenoPro Gamma will support both of these requirements.

With the above feature for example, if you use the French translation of GenoPro can have display the Config Dialog in French and any errors, warnings and comments whilst the Report itself can be in a different language, English, Spanish etc.

I have also put in place documentation of changes for Config.xml and Dictionary.xml. This consists of an XML attribute of the form V="a.b.c.d?" for each changed item, where a.b.c.d is version and ? is type of change, + being insertion, x deletion, ± replacement/amendment and ~ relocation up or down the file. On this occasion I have added the annotation after the event, and so cannot guarantee 100% accuracy. As well as the marked changes there is also the movement of text from Dictionary to Config as mentioned earlier. I hope this will make it easier for translators to keep track of changes.

Update 2008/08/03  Updated Descendants to fix missing messages
Update 2008/08/04  Fix offline thumbnails and picture date check in non English locale
Update 2008/08/27 corrections, enhancements etc see related post
Update 2008/08/31 corrections, enhancements etc see related post
Update 2008/09/02 Minor update to Dictionary & Config.xml
Update 2008/09/05 Minor update adding PhContactTxt and removing extra blank lines from Descendants Report
Update 2008/09/10 Updates to fix issues raised by JCG in two posts
Update 2008/09/12 a few more minor fixes notified by JCG

There a few things to tweak, as I get the following dialog on my machine when generating a Descendant Report.

I obviously had not tested pictures not being available so hence the second error. Hopefully both are fixed in the updated RC2 skin attached to the 1st post.

Hope this helps,

/Stuart

There appears to be a bug in the GenoPro ReportGenerator Dic.Plurial (key, count) method. According to the SDK documentation, it should return the plural of the word according to the count. But for a count greater than one it appears to return the count in front of the plural word, thus it then works the same Dic.PlurialCount, which it should not. This only happens when there is no 'P' attribute present for the Dic key specified (Individual is this case), even though it determines the correct plural form using the Dic _FmtPlural rule. So I can work around it by just adding the P attribute, but Dic.Plurial also needs to be fixed by GenoPro. I am putting together some other changes and so I will republish when I have completed these.

It has also been mentioned previously that Plurial should in fact be Plural. Hopefully this can be fixed in GenoPro Gamma

I have fixed the bug in Dic.Plurial() in both the Gamma and in GenoPro 2007.  The fix is available at http://www.genopro.com/download/InstallGenoPro.2.0.1.6.exe, and includes all the latest skin updates (Narrative, Descendants, and Gedcom).

Many releases ago this used to occur if the GenoMap had not been updated for some time,i.e. before the boundary rectangle property was introduced. Could this possibly be the case here? I thought this 'bug' in Genopro had been fixed and that whenever you saved a .gno file the boundary rectangle coordinates were saved.

Anyway,try updating the GenoMap in some way e.g. just add and delete a dummy object and then run the report again.

I got this error when generating a Descendant Report with a Family selected:

Thanks,

JC

Thanks for the reply. However... array index is still out of bounds...

Does the walkaround solution mean I have to add and delete an object to each and every map? Doing it just to one of them did not resolve the problem. I have quite a few GenoMaps... I tried exporting and importing, but that threw all my individuals onto one big unreadable map, so I will avoid that solution!

Anna

JC,
Yes just a silly typo, it should of course be oP0. I'll fix in the next update

And to Alex.

I think is a question of context, i.e. first generation of what? I think it depends or whether or not the implied qualifier is 'of the family' or 'of descendants'. As you will have seen fromm the earlier post, I started by calling the subject of report the 'First Generation', but then changed it.

This is case of 'you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but never all of the people all of the time'

I will add an option to choose either a family report, or a descendants report, with the former using a subheading for first individual/couple of 'First Generation' and adding ' of Descendants' to the subheadings of the latter.

I have a couple of unrelated items to amend and test before posting the amended version, hopefully this will be in two or three days.