GEDitCOM II overview
GEDitCOM II is a new genealogy application for OS X that sets the standard for Mac ease-of-use editing of genealogy files, for customization of the user experience, and for power features allowing the greatest access to your genealogical data. GEDitCOM II is a complete rewrite of the former GEDitCOM application.
GEDitCOM II is a rewritten version of GEDitCOM using Apple's Cocoa environment. It will greatly exceed user-interface features of GEDitCOM. It will retain the philosophy of GEDitCOM to be a customizable genealogy application for editing and viewing GEDCOM genealogy files. Users of GEDitCOM, should find GEDitCOM II easy to use. The installation will replace any prior installed beta versions of GEDitCOM II (if you have it in your main "Applications" folder); it will not affect the original GEDitCOM application (if you have that on your computer).
GEDitCOM II, as a new application, will not be a free update of GEDitCOM. It will be significantly discounted for current GEDitCOM users (with a few free copies for those who have been providing input during development).
What’s new in version 2.4
Updated on Feb 27 2019
Note: Now requires OS X 10.10 or later
- This update fixes issues found in High Sierra included updating code to eliminate all "deprecated" methods (which was challenging process due to rather sparse state of current Apple developer documentation).
- High Sierra broke web views used to display maps. They have been rewritten and are now working again. In addition, you now have a choice of displaying maps using Google Maps or OpenLayers (a public domain mapping service).
- Extensions that create maps will create them using the selected mapping service.
- A scripting property lets an extension determine which mapping method the user has selected.
- Icons for points of interest on maps are now stored on geditcom.com, becuase High Sierra refuses to load locally stored icons in Google maps. The POIs now work (but are no longer customizable by users).
- If GEDitCOM II fails to read a GEDCOM file claimed to have UTF8 encoding (because it has an encoding error), it now tries alternate reading methods and displays message that extra methods were tried. Before it would just give up.
- High Sierra has some bugs in split pane windows (such as some window with notes in one pane and rest of the record in another pane). A work around was found that now appears to get around that bug.
- MacOS has revised the way applications should implement drag and drop features. All GEDitCOM II drag and drop features were updated to current methods (which may have fixed drag and drop issues seen in some recent MacOS versions).
- Various minor improvements, including improvements in provided browser styles and extensions.
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- Intel 32
- OS X 10.10 or later
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