Remainder : GénàToile could exist
thank
to Leslie Howard, who wrote ged2www and made it free software.
Formerly,
I downloaded the sources files, I have "Francised" it, then
internationlized
it. At last, I add some new features.
I had more an more difficulties to manage the
modifications
of that program : each new feature was more time consuming for tests.
Besides,
there is a Windows version of ged2wwwf, an a Mac OS one, adding some
synchronization
problems.
So, by a sunny day, I decide to write a new program.
His
features had to be :
- a useful User Interface,
- running under multiple environments,
- display notes and sources,
- moreover, it had to display the full contents of
gedcom
files.
Moreover, I wanted to enjoy writing this new program.
So I wrote it in java. I bought some books about java,
I downloaded the compiler, some documentation, and I started my work.
The first version was released on june 2001.
Right away, I received a lot of mail, signaling bugs,
asking for enhancements, crying for help...
Between two mail answers, I could manage a way to make
that program live, not as fast as I would like, but...
A cyclic recurrent demand was countinuously very
often
claimed and asked all the time : hide the information for
contemporaneous
people.
I tried to escape, telling there are pelty of very good
programs that can extract such data from gedcom files... No way ! You
were
still demanding, asking, claiming, begging, crying, etc...
Et alors ? et alors ? et alors ? ..... Hé
hé
! Benoît est arrivé-é-é, sans
s'presser-é-é,
le grand Benoît, le beau Benoît, avec son PC et son grand
chapeau.
[wink to a French song by Henri Salvador]
Benoît started that work. He first analyzed the
demand, had exchanges with some users, and brought us all you need to
hide
these tremendous data about contemporaneous.
A big thank to Benoît Mamet.
Beside, from the first ages of GénàToile,
you were MANY MANY asking for a way to change colors. I stuck sat on my
chair for a long time, not moving, pretexting that color change could
make things difficult for someone browsing pages generated by an other
one. At last, Lionel Favre was very courageous and added that
facility. Thank you, Lionel.
By now, the list ends here.
I would be delighted if many people join the team, for
my pleasure, and yours ! So, you can contact me.
I recently put this project on Source Forge, where you
can see the source files, and start working on it !
Here you are : GénàToile
on Source Forge but may be the
sources are not up to date...