Development discussion for FamilyTreePlugin

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Nov 2005

Cool, something to give back to the family for working so long on TWiki Thanks for sharing!

I made some changes to the Plugin topic, feel free to incorporate into the next release:

• Added TOC
• Added clarification in installation instructions
• Added "Change history"
• Clarified TWiki dependency
• Added "Lincese" line
• Added "Benchmarks" line (how about measuring and documenting the PluginBenchmarks?)
• Added %TWIKIWEB% prefix in related topics line to avoid broken links
• Added signature

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2005

I found a small bug with display of the Male and Female lineage. The <br> tag needs a space after it, or the 2nd line of children ends up not being recognized as a WikiWord. Here is a diff of the fixed FamilyTreePlugin.pm

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<         my $col = ' <strong> '.$to .' </strong> '.$wife.' <br>';
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>         my $col = ' <strong> '.$to .' </strong> '.$wife.' <br> ';
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<         my $col = ' <strong> '.$to .' </strong> '.$husband.' <br>';
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>         my $col = ' <strong> '.$to .' </strong> '.$husband.' <br> ';

-- GeorgeClark - 21 Mar 2007

Actually. better to produce valid XHTML: <br /> instead of <br>.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Mar 2007

I've made some changes to add a new tag - %GRDESCENDANTS% - This tag will output the descendant tree using the <dot> language for processing using the DirectedGraphPlugin. I've got it working, and need to add options to better control page size, orientation, etc. It outputs persons as nodes with "shape=record", and unions with "shape=plaintext", and also generates a image map so that the persons and unions are clickable. Also added some fields to the Union to record divorces or other dissolutions. Modification policy is to ContactAuthorFirst ... Are you interested? I've attached the Currie tree output provided with the sample web.

-- GeorgeClark - 30 Dec 2007

You might want to file a bug report at TWikibug:FamilyTreePlugin to grab Crawford's attention and to track this enhancement.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jan 2008