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From: "Simon Orde" <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] Changing sibling order in diagrams
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:08:29 +0100
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Peter

Before I saw your email, I hadn't been aware that there was any problem with
re-ordering siblings in diagrams. Since I read it I've been trying to work
out what could be going wrong. And I have discovered one thing, which is
that there is a bug in F.H. and you cannot re-order siblings in diagrams at
all if you have checked "No Spouses or Duplicates" - either the button on
the diagram toolbar (the leftmost of the group of 3), or the menu command
under Diagram > "Spouses and Duplicates". However, I'm not sure if that
accounts for what you have described because I understood you to be saying
that the re-ordering did take place when you clicked the Move Up/Down
buttons, but the diagram didn't show the change unless you refreshed it?
That's not what happens if you try to re-order when "No Spouses or
Duplicates" is checked. Basically nothing happens. No re-ordering takes
place, and refreshing the diagram afterwards doesn't make any difference.

Is it possible that actually the re-ordering didn't happen at all in your
case too? Could you let me know whether you think that the problem you
found is the same one that I found - ie. that re-ordering siblings simply
doesn't work if you aren't showing spouses or duplicates; or if you think
that the problem you are having is another separate problem? Thanks.

I've had a good go at testing re-ordering siblings when 'Show Duplicates' or
'Show Spouses' are checked, and so far it always appears to work for me.

Simon Orde
List Administrator and Family Historian designer

----- Original Message -----
From: "P.Evans" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [FHU] Changing sibling order in diagrams


> Andrew,
> What I mean by inconsistent is that sometimes the diagram updates itself
> immediately and at other times, (when making exactly the same change to
the
> same two siblings), the diagram does not update immediately. The property
> panel, as you say, always updated immediately. This may be something to do
> with my computer which is why I asked if others have experienced this.
> The whole thing is not much of a problem as I normally change sibling
order
> in the property panel or the main record window. It just happened that I
was
> viewing a diagram and noticed that two siblings were in the wrong order
and
> tried to correct this. That is why the anomaly surfaced.
>
> Peter
>
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