TextPlus Charts

TextPlus Charts
Summary	Two new charts: Text+ Descendant Chart, and Text+ Ancestor Chart.
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Download link	For TNG 10.1.0 textplus_charts_v10.1.0.7.zip For TNG 10.0.3 TNG 10.0.2 textplus_charts_v10.0.2.7.zip French, German, and Dutch translations for all versions: textplus_charts_languages_v10.0.2.4.zip
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Author(s)	Robin Richmond with translations by Henny Savenije and testing help from Henny Savenije and Alan Wilcox
Homepage	Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database
Mod Support	My Mod Support form or TNG Forums
Contact Developer	My Mod Support form
Latest Mod	10.1.0.7 for TNGv10.1 10.0.2.7 for TNG v10.0.2 and 10.0.3
Min TNG V	10.0.2
Max TNG V	10.1
Files modified	admin_pedconfig.php, Descendant charts (descend.php, descendtext.php, desctracker.php, register.php), Pedigree charts (pedigree.php, pedigreetext.php, verticalchart.php, ahnentafel.php, extrastree.php), cust_text.php (English and English-UTF8), css/genstyle.css Installs: descendtextplus.php, pedigreetextplus.php, tngdblib_textplus.php, languages/English/textplus_help.php, extensions/textplusmenu.png
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Purpose of the Mod

To define two new charts - The Text+ Pedigree Chart (on the Pedigree inner menu), and the Text+ Descendant Chart (on the Descendant Charts inner menu). Both charts follow a text format (basically an outline layout), but they also:

• Draw lines to connect people with their children.
• Display places of birth and death instead of just dates.
• For living people (when allowed by security constraints), display the last known place of residence and the date of that residence event.
• Can (when the number of generations is set to zero) display ALL of a person's descendants or ancestors rather than a specific number of generations,
• Display a summary at the bottom of the chart, and
• Allow the user to save the chart parameters to a cookie for use by subsequent charts (whether initiated by the "New Chart" link at the end of a line, or by selecting the chart from an inner menu on a profile page or another chart).

The Text+ Descendant chart also:

• Displays date and place of marriage, and
• Displays the starting person's parents, with date and place of birth and death.

And the Text+ Pedigree chart:

• Can (optionally) display the siblings of each ancestor, giving a richer view of the family tree, and
• Can (optionally) display blank lines at certain points in the chart to improve readability.

Compatibility With Other Mods

No known conflicts with published mods. However, there is a conflict with older versions of an Add New Items mod that was written by Ian Fettes. I have a workaround for those older versions, though a newer version, available from the author, avoids that conflict.

Also, World map mod is an example of a another mod that installs a chart program and modifies the Pedigree inner menu. There is no installation conflict, but the World Map program won't have the Text+ link, nor will the Text+ Pedigree programs have the World Map link. On the other hand, chart programs distributed with TNG releases (e.g. pedigree.php, pedigreetext.php, verticalchart.php) would have both links after both mods are installed.

Margins and Line-Wrapping

Because the Text+ charts draw lines connecting the generations, these charts cannot simply allow long lines of data to wrap at the browser window's (or printed page's) right margin. The Text+ chart programs have to know the window (or printed page's) width and the font size so that they can wrap lines of data at the appropriate point.

As a result, the Text+ chart programs contain a form with fields that specify printing parameters. Those parameters are described in detail in a help page associated with the Text+ chart programs.

(Author's note: Most web applications with such constraints would generate PDF files, which allow print characteristics to be controlled with more specificity, but I first wrote versions of the Text+ programs long before the PDF format became standard, and I've simply continued to use HTML with each new implementation.)

Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.
• You should backup files listed in the panel on the right.

Automated Installation

1. Remove and delete previous version of this mod.
2. Backup the files updated by this mod. They are listed in the panel at the upper right.
3. Download the .zip file, and extract its .cfg file to the mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files.

In the event of a problem

1. Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
2. Contact me through My Mod Support form.

Visualization of this Mod

Text+ Descendant Chart Note that the Text+ option is outlined in the first line of the blue-green "inner menu". The second line of the inner menu contains an outlined Help link that provides help for the printer-setup options that are on the "Pretty-Print" window. The column of colons (highlighted, on the left) forms a dotted line connecting spouses of the same person. The bold plus sign (pointed to by the arrow) is the "New Chart" link that indicates that that person has children not shown in this chart. Note the chart summary outlined at the bottom.

Text+ Descendant Chart in the "Pretty-Print Window When you click on the "Print" button on the main window, the "Pretty-Print", or "Print Format" window pops up. Note the outlined form that allows you to (again) change the number of generations, and also to set various printer parameters. This form does not print. Note the Submit button near the right end of the one-line form. You must click Submit to redisplay the chart, unlike on the main screen, where changing the generation count automatically resubmits the page. The help page is again available on this window, where it is most needed. Note that names and "New Chart" flags are not hyperlinked. You must use the main window to navigate through your family tree. Note that this chart is narrower than the one above. Is is formatted for Portait mode printing. By default, (unless you are on a mobile device) the chart in the main window is formatted for the equivalent of Landscape mode printing, because almost all computer screens are wider than a portrait-mode page. The "Save" button at the far right of the printer-control form saves your generation count and printer settings in a persistent cookie for use by subsequent Text+ Descendant Charts.

Text+ Pedigree Chart This chart was generated with the parameter Generations=0, so that all of the starting person's ancestors are shown. The summary footer reveals that the chart displayed seven generations. Note that, as with the Text+ Descendant Chart, the chart width for this screen is equivalent to a "Landscape" setting, all all seven generations can fit without any wrapping.

Text+ Pedigree Chart in the "Pretty-Print" screen This is the same chart as above. Note that it is formatted for "Portrait" printing and is therefore narrower than the one above, as illustrated by the arrows that point to 5 lines out of the first 14 that must wrap for Portrait printing. The "Siblings" and "Blank lines" checkboxes (outlined in red) are not present in the Text+ Descendant chart. When "Siblings" is checked, each person's siblings are shown. When "Blank lines" is checked, blank lines are inserted at strategic points in the chart to improve readability. Note that the Siblings and Blank Lines checkbox values are NOT saved to a cookie when the user clicks the Save button.

Pedigree Chart with Siblings. Saved as a PDF 12-Generation Text+ Pedigree Chart. with extra blank lines Saved as a PDF (The charts were saved as PDF using Google Chrome's built-in Print-to-PDF capability.)

Text+ Pedigree Setup in the Admin / Setup / Chart Settings Form

Note that a "Text+" option has been added to the "Initial Display" selection for Pedigree Chart and for Descendancy chart. This allows you to set up the Text+ charts as your default Pedigree and/or Descendancy charts.

Custom Text

The following strings are defined in the English and English-UTF8 versions of cust_test.php

//TextPlus Reports mod: new strings
$text['age'] = "Age";
$text['pedtextplus'] = "Text+";
$text['help'] = "Help for this area";
$text['textplusdescendfor'] = "Text+ Descendancy Chart for";
$text['textpluspedigreefor'] = "Text+ Pedigree Chart for";
$text['nofit'] = "At these printer settings, there is no room for generation";
//The next few strings are used in the TextPlus innermenu form
$text['fontsize'] = "Size";
$text['indentation'] = "Indentation";
$text['pagewidth'] = "Width";
$text['portrait'] = "Portrait";
$text['landscape'] = "Landscape";
$text['legal'] = "Legal";
$text['characters'] = "chars";
$text['frmsiblings'] = "Siblings";
$text['submit'] = "Submit";
$text['save'] = "Save";
$text['blanklines'] = "Blank Lines";
//Strings for the text+ descendant chart summary:
$text['chartrequired'] = "This chart required";
$text['linesprint'] = "lines to print";
$text['peopleincl'] = "people (including";
$text['spousesin'] = "spouses) in";
$text['lcgenerations'] = "generations"; //lowercase version
$text['plus1parent'] = "plus 1 parent";
$text['plus'] = "plus";
$text['sumparents'] = "parents";
$text['peoplehave'] = "people have";
$text['personhas'] = "person has";
$text['additionaldesc'] = "additional descendants not shown on this chart";
$text['descendantsof'] = "Descendants of";
//Strings for the text+ pedigree chart summary
$text['chartdisplayed'] = "This chart displayed";
$text['directanc'] = "direct ancestors";
$text['ancestorsof'] = "Ancestors of";
$text['additionalanc'] = "additional ancestors not shown on this chart";
$text['among'] = "among";
$text['sumpeople'] = "people";
$text['in'] = "in";
//Strings used to compose the date/place values
$text['unknownvalue'] = "unknown";
$text['unknowndisplay'] = "??";
$text['alive'] = "alive";
$text['married1'] = "m"; //The prefix for marriage date place, e.g. (m.01 Jan 1911)
//For admin_pedconfig.php
$admtext['pedtextplus'] = "Text+";
//TextPlus Reports mod: End of new strings

Space-Saving Techniques

I have used the following techniques to conserve space and reduce the amount of line-wrapping:

• I use "??" instead of "Unknown"
• If a person was born and died in the same place, I only display the place once, like this: (Cleveland, Bradley, TN;15 Nov 1815 - 04 Jan 1887)
• I have gone to some trouble in my own database to generate shortened versions of place names (e.g. "Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee" is represented in my Text+ Charts as "Cleveland, Bradley, TN"). At present, I don't think this technique prevents enough wrapped lines to try to distribute it as part of this mod, but I have packaged it as a separate mod, and can release it if there is interest.

Issues

In my latest version of this mod, I moved all off the program's print settings to the TNG Pretty-Print screen. But I didn't take into account that the Text+ Pedigree checkboxes for Siblings and Blank lines would be useful in the "main" screen. The next version will restore those settings to the main screen.

Mod Change History

Mod Version	TNG Versions	Date	Note
10.1.0.7	10.1	12 Jan 2015	Updated database function calls for TNG v10.1 compatibility.
10.0.2.7	10.0.2-10.0.3	10 Jan 2015	Moves the printer-configuration form to the "Pretty-Print" page so that users can view charts without having to fuss with the printer configuration settings.
10.0.2.6	10.0.2	12Aug1014	First production release

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your site to the table below.

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database	Robin Richmond	Mod developer	10.0.2.6	10.0.3	English
Mitchell Families Online	Roger Mitchell	Another great tool for visitors, very well implemented!	10.0.2.6	10.0.2	English
Turner mob	Margaret Grogan Turner	Another great tool for visitors, thanks!	10.0.2.6	10.0.3	English
Hooley Family Links	Rick Hooley	login: guest pwd: guest	10.0.2.6	10.0.3	EN
Wortelboer Genealogy	Bernard Wortelboer	Public site	10.1.0.7	10.1.0	NL, EN