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It provides a reasonable facsimile for each GenoMap that can be panned and zoomed. Internal hyperlinks are also implemented allowing navigation from one genogram to another. Clicking on a individual's gender icon on the genogram causes the detail frame above to show that individual's details. Similarly clicking on the tree icon next to the individual's name in the detail frame causes the genogram containing that individual to be displayed. The same comments apply to families. The genomap can be hidden from view when required. You can also place background images and photos on hte map as seen in the sample above. I've tested it on my main Geno Pro file with 45 GenoMaps, ~2700 Individuals & ~700 families without problems. Click on the info icon or the 'Help' hyperlink to see how to pan and zoom the graphic.

This is still work in progress and improvements will be made post Beta 15. I.e. the initial display will be zoomed to show the complete genogram. Also borders around individuals will be implemented correctly. Currently the border is a fixed size but will match the GenoMap borders at a later date. I'll also have a go at displaying emotional relationships where present but that looks tricky. Also performance will be improved if the SVG files are compressed (gzipped).

It requires an SVG viewer plug-in to be present with your browser. The best at present is Adobe's SVG viewer Beta version 6.0. This works with MS IE and Mozilla Firefox but the roll-over animations are not supported in the latter. Mozilla Firefox Beta 1.5 has a built-in SVG viewer but feature support is poor at present. If you use Adobe SVG Viewer 3.x then text in labels will be missing, however there is a version of this SVG Viewer for MAC OS X, allowing MAC users with IE browser to see much of your genomaps (not sure if it works with Safari browser)

If an Adobe SVG Viewer is not installed the Javascript code prompts the user to install it and will display Adobe's Beta SVG Viewer install page.

There are a few extra files required and changes to several existing template files so I have attached a zipped version of the complete report template for those of you who want to try it. (updated 2005/10/31 21:10) If you have problems with the zip file attachment try Mozilla Firefox browser instead of MS IE you can also download it from here

Just a question. Isn't it possible to convert the genomap to a PNG instead of using SVG?

No need for additional plug-in and you get excellent quality.

Edited: Saturday, October 29, 2005 by beraha

FYI get the following red error msgs, but the report is OK (3 times for each - map0, map1 and map2)

  Your SVG looks like a great output for graphics.  However, in my tree, a large percentage of the people do not show up (no boxes, circles or names appear), although the various relationship lines do show up.  I could not find a commond denominator between those who do appear and those who do not.  Have you any idea why this happens?  I have about 1400 people in one GenoMap I am trying to display. 

Danny

Sorry maru-san, I can't think why the report should stop during places.htm as I haven't changed that. It does however include code\util.vbs which I have changed. Possibly your version has a syntax error in it. Does it just stop or is it a crash that causes GenoPro to exit? The only configuration is the Parameter 'fLinkToSVGMap' in Config.xml that causes the tree icon to be placed after the individual's name in the detail frame.

And rdn, I think 1400 people is way too big for this sort of display, I suspect it will be very slow to render when panning and zooming. I personally try to organise my GenoMaps so that each can be printed on an A4 landscape page. This gives some 50/60 people per GenoMap. This I feel is also a reasonable number show as an SVG image.

However this does not explain why the gender icons etc. do not appear. This is probably a text item somewhere that I haven't encoded as HTML text. For example <Unknown> should appear in genomaps/map?.svg as &lt;Unknown&gt; and not as <Unknown> I will check through the code again.

Thanks for such good job! At first I got some strange error and all newly created files in directory were classified as hidden and couldn't be written. I deleted whole directory and tried again... Just the "map" error mentioned before.

Would it be pushing to get a zoom on a certain person when some person's link is clicked on!!!

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