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Vmware, works well for me. It does need a computer with a fair bit of speed and memory. The convenience of using Vmware is that it allows me to setup an environment just for maintaining my genealogy software and not having to worry that an install of another program or a virus etc will damage my setup. The version of Win XP has been customized to be as small as possible using LitePC's XPlite to strip out what I don't need.

What version of Wine are you using and have you seen the following: TMG Entry for Wine I personally use Vmware.

A quick look thru the developer community blogs for VFP ( http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~BlogWatch~People ) show that while Visual FoxPro may no longer be developed by Microsoft, many interesting developments seem to be occurring from the legions of developers not willing to let go of VFP without a fight. For example: 1. http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX - which is a community effort to create open source add-ons for Visual FoxPro 9.0. (shows that vfp is being improved even without microsoft) 2. http://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout/ Talks about true multi threading with VFP (from my understanding this may help with multicore cpu's and speed up vfp) While I could find no mention of supporting unicode I believe it to be very heartening that vfp has as great a community behind it as TMG. Hope fully this will be able to benefit TMG in the future. -- Sam

Also see here "TMG Release History" on the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Master_Genealogist Just noticed that the main article of tmg links to one on Bob Velke

Dean I use GedStar Pro on my Palm Treo 680 Mobile Phone which I can not do without, so I can do genealogy on the run, without having to wait for a notebook to start up! I use the voice record function of the treo to make short note's so I can update the main tmg database later. Sam

On TMG-L Mailing list I saw the same thing mentioned and Edward tells Nathan to Reinstall the application due to an early download of 7.01 see: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/r...8-05/1210076715 Edward Downloaded again and then reinstalled TMG now works Thank you Nathan --- "Edward A. Feustel" <efeustel@hughes.net> wrote: > Nathan, > When I got an earlier version of Ver v.01, Bob Velke got me to delete > the old > version and download again and reinstall. That cured the problem. > I had the error on some "marriage" tags that I had converted from UFT. > Ed

You may also be interested in checking out the following tmg2gramps Which I found thru TMG's wikipedia article.

Ok I see what you mean now. For reference: wikipedia's entry on Entity-relationship model You could always make your own based on the information provided.

Just checked Wine and it seems someone has had TMG7 work with Wine 0.9.58 Wine Entry for TMG

Do you mean the database filestructure? If so Bob Velke has the following tmgfstr.zip . It describes TMG file structure as of version 3.6. Keep in mind that the the current version is at 7.0, but I believe basic structure hasn't changed very much. Does anyone know if there is a more current file?

See the following for previous message http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...ic=6541&hl=

John, Thanks for detailed answer. I appreciate and believe I can see what you mean.

Hi John, I am not a programmer. Can you say why it is impractical from a programming point of view? Also what would you do as a programmer to have tmg handle Unicode? What would be a trade off or a possible solution that could be programmed and handled by tmg. How about just the memo fields using this method to at least preserve the original data from UTF-8 GEDCOMS?

Another Article on the subject.. VFP can do Double Byte Character Sets http://weblogs.foxite.com/boudewijnlutgeri...03/12/3439.aspx

This has been big annoyance and it would be great if could be fixed.

Bug #1, #2, #3 I agreed and can confirm these issues happen on the sample project

Worked out that the error is referring to the "helvss75.ttf" file

Yes this would make tmg a lot easier to use. I currently open multiple versions of the project so I can view the source etc..

I believe it may be related to the following. I am not sure where to get the font in question? http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TMG/2000-07/0963533039 > You're missing the font that creates the supscript referencing the > footnotes. The missing font is on your TMG CD - one of two on the CD, I > recall. Its name is FHELVSS75.TTF. (They have a ttf extention on their > name) You need to add the missing font to your fonts on your computer. > Then, instead of FHELVSS75 you'll have a nice little number.

Tried to create a new project from the welcome screen and received the following Visual Fox Pro Error report --------------------------- Microsoft Visual FoxPro --------------------------- Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005 @ 2008.01.01 10:34:30 AM. Error log file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\vfp9rerr.log Called from - islockset line 2912 {C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7\common\programs\dsutils.prg dsutils.fxp} Called from - tmgappobj.mrunvalidate line 842 {c:\program files\the master genealogist v7\libs\appobjtmg.vct c:\program files\the master genealogist v7\libs\appobjtmg.vct} Called from - opendataset5 line 1014 {C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7\common\programs\dsutils.prg dsutils.fxp} Called from - tmgappobj.setuptables line 17 {c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct} Called from - tmgappobj.cdatapath_assign line 5 {c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct} Called from - tmgappobj.mopenproject line 119 {c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct} Called from - tmgappobj.mcreatenewprj line 95 {c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct c:\program files\common\libs\appobj.vct} Called from - menuobjtmg.mnewproject line 2 {c:\program files\common\libs\menuobj.vct c:\program files\common\libs\menuobj.vct} Called from - ON... line 0 { } Called from - tmgmain line 531 {C:\Program Files\The Master Genealogist v7\tmg\programs\tmgmain.prg c:\program files\the master genealogist v7\tmg7.exe} --------------------------- OK --------------------------- Tried the same from the file menu and did not receive an error.

Ok Seems to be related to a bad install, as I have removed tmg7 and reinstalled Could be related to my other two post related to the language features! [TMG7] Error messages when switching to a newly imported language http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...?showtopic=9045 Language Issue http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...?showtopic=9054 After reading about the Fatal Error Exception Code =C0000005 on the following forum: http://resolves.signum-net.com/index.php

See here down the bottom of the page "Patch File Archive" http://www.whollygenes.com/Merchant2/merch...screen=UPGRADES or for the last TMG Gold (U.S.) Edition use: http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/186606-...xx612update.exe

Not sure but the following seems like a possible solution for making TMG unicode compliant without having to rewrite tmg from scratch. I am not a programmer, but I do realise that this is just one possible part of converting tmg to unicode. Heres hoping.

Have you gone into TMG7's preferences (Program Options > Colors) and changed the Lists section and also looked at (Current Project Options > Colors)? And maybe increase the font sizes to help with legabilty.

Bill, I agree, I have left a message with the same related wishlist/issue as I was expecting that with the new method of windows resizing, increasing the size of the window would display more information. http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...?showtopic=9057