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Q What is GenJ all about?
A GenealogyJ (in short GenJ) is a viewer and editor for genealogical data stored in Gedcom format.
Q Is there a discussion forum devoted to GenJ ?
A Yes, in the
GenJ Forum
Q What does Gedcom stand for?
Q How do I get pictures to show up in Tree View?
Q Can I change the language that GenJ speaks?
AThis document has more information about Gedcom.
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To show a picture for every person in the main Tree view add
a multimedia property (OBJE) to your individuals. Simply bring
up an indivdual in Edit View, choose the topmost
property INDI, click on '+' and choose OBJE to be added.
Point the sub-property FILE to a file in your computer's
file-system (button '>>') and the images will be picked up by
Tree View (it's looking
for INDI:OBJE:FILE automatically).
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You can download an appropriate language pack (genj_ll-x.y.zip) for GenJ
(e.g. genj_fr-2.0.zip) from the
project's homepage
GenJ will try to use the language of your operating system automatically.
To explicitly switch to a language (the language pack has to been installed
manually)
choose menu-item Help|About and flip to the Look&Feel-Tab.
Then select the language of choice.
A GenJ uses real-world metrics for various components (e.g. in
Tree View). To make lengths of lines and
sizes of boxes appear correctly on your screen you'll have to tell GenJ
about your display's resolution (which is reported by the operating system
but normally doesn't match system's monitor).
To explicitly adjust the resolution
choose menu-item Help|About and flip to the Look&Feel-Tab.
Then use a ruler to match the shown rulers on your screen.
Q Can I change the look of GenJ?
Q I have an existing person and I want to make it a child of
another existing person. The only available option I can see is to
add a *new* child/parent to an existing record, but there doesn't seem
to be an option to add an *existing* person as a child/parent. How do
I do this?
QWhy do images get rendered at different size?
QHow can I capture information about adoptions?
Q How can I get in touch with GenJ users or developers? Where can I get further information about GenJ?
A GenJ uses the Swing Toolkit for presenting information to the
user. This is system dependant by default. GenJ allows to change the current
Look&Feel as well.
You can download the Look&Feel pack (genj_lnf-x.y.zip) from the
project's homepage.
After restarting GenJ you can change the Look&Feel in GenJ's list of Options.
A You can go to the 'existing' parent (or the parental family
for the 'existing' child). Then choose "Add Child" from context menu
and in the following dialog choose the person of your choice from the
drop-down box at the top.
This way no new person will be created as a child but a relationship to
the 'existing' one is built.
A The blueprints do play a role in the outcome of rendering.
Depending on how much has to be shown in a box the space for an image
can be limited because it will be shrunk to make space for text.
If there's enough space then the image uses as much space as possibly
to fit it's real dimensions (determined by size *and* resolution).
That's why they can look different.
A Add an ADOPtion event to an individual in Edit View and then add
a reference to the Family that adopted the individual (through the context-menu
of the ADOPtion event).
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Visit the GenJ homepage, the GenJ project site, or the IRC channel #genj at irc.freenode.net.