*** Creating People or Unions

Click at an empty point of the workspace approximately where you
want a new PERSON or UNION to appear. A menu will appear at that
point. Choose the symbol you want. To cancel the menu without
making a choice, click somewhere outside the menu boundaries.

*** Deleting People or Unions

Hold down the CONTROL key and click on a symbol. This will be
deleted along with its relationships.

If you are running Kinship Editor as an application the Delete
All entry under the File Menu deletes all people, unions and
relationships.

*** Relating People and Unions

Hold down the SHIFT key and drag from a PERSON to either the top
or bottom of a UNION. Dragging to the top of a UNION symbol (=)
adds a link to that PERSON as a parent/spouse, dragging to the
bottom of a UNION symbol adds the PERSON as a child/sibling.

*** Deleting relationships

Depending on your machine, hold down the ALT or OPTION or COMMAND
key and drag from a PERSON to either the top or bottom of a
UNION. If there was a relationship, it will be deleted.

The Delete All entry under the File Menu deletes all people,
unions and relationships.

*** Moving People and Unions

Click on and drag a PERSON or UNION symbol to move it. The links
will automatically be redrawn. If you hold down the SHIFT key and
move a UNION, you will also move the immediate nuclear family
associated with that UNION. If you hold down the ALT (or OPTION
or COMMAND) key while moving a UNION you will move the entire
lineage descended from that UNION.

*** Entering information about PEOPLE and UNIONS

A limited amount of information can be entered about people or
unions in this demonstration version. Click on a person or union.
The symbol should turn red. You can then fill in the information
at the top of the window. Information is not recorded unless you
a) change to a different field, or b) type the TAB key. Normally
this suggests that the last entry should be followed by a TAB. In
particular the formation dates, end dates, birth dates and death
dates are be used for the 'animated' genealogy feature. (See
Animated Genealogies)

This information is displayed when a person is selected by
clicking on them.

*** Animated Genealogies

Animated genealogies are useful for observing the development of
relationships over time.

If you enter a year in the YEAR field, only people alive and
unions active in or before that year will be displayed. People
who are deceased and unions terminated as of that year will be
drawn with a bar through the symbol. If you enter a second year
in the field to the right of the YEAR field as well, and click
the STEP button, the genealogy will be redrawn from year to year
to show the progression from the intial state to the final state.

*** Labelling People in the Genealogy

If you have entered names for people these names can be used to
label the symbols. The menu just to the top left of the Comment
field choose the labelling style. The choices are No Label,
Initials, First Name, Last Name and Whole. You can change your
choice at any time and the new labelling style will come into
immediate use. This does not affect the way you enter names, only
the display on the genealogy.

If you do not enter names, default names Person 1, Person 2 etc.
are generated automatically.

*** Making the diagram static

If you check the Editable box, the diagram can be changed. If it
is unchecked, the diagram is immutable. This is useful for
preparing set examples, particularly for use in the applet
version of Kinship Editor, which can then be used as a diagram
display tool. The Fix Ego checkbox currently locks the display
when checked. Its use will be expanded in future versions.

*** Saving your genealogy

The File Menu has a save option when Kinship Editor is not
embedded as an applet. Genealogies are saved in XML, (eXtended
Markup Language). XML is the basis of a whole series of document
technologies that will allow documents to be used with a range of
applications. These files can also be displayed in XML aware
browsers and wordprocessors.

Select SAVE in the File Menu, and a dialogue box will let you
select a file name. These should ordinarily end in .xml if you
want to use this file for future analysis. This is optional
however. The genealogical information, the data associated with
each person and union, the positions on the screen, the marking
of ego (indicated in red), whether the diagram can be edited, the
labelling mode and the start and end years of the animation
option are all saved.


*** Loading a genealogy

If you are running Kinship Editor as an application there is a
Load option under the File Menu. Select LOAD, choose a filename,
and it will be loaded and rendered. We are currently working on
XML conversion tools to convert existing genealogical formats
into the file format we use.

If you are running KE on a web page, there is a menu of choices
near the top left of the window that includes genealogies you can
load.

*** Using Kinship Editor on a Web Page

If you insert code similar to the following in a web page you can
deploy your own examples:

<APPLET CODE="KinshipEditor.class" archive="Kinedit90applet.jar"
	WIDTH=620 HEIGHT=480>
	<param name="URL" value="a8.xml"><param name="Edit" value="yes">
	<param name="URL1" value="a8.xml"><param name="LABEL1" value="a8">
	<param name="URL2" value="a9.xml"><param name="LABEL2" value="a9">
</APPLET>

The URL param is the genealogy to display upon starting up. Edit
indicates if the diagram can be edited or not, overriding the
setting saved in the genealogy file. URL1 through URL30 are menu
choices available to the user running this web page.
LABEL1-LABEL30 are what to call these in the menu. If LABELS are
not entered, the file name is used instead.  The genealogy files
must be on the same server and in the same folder on that server
as the web page in which Kinship Editor is embedded. You can also
run the web page directly from your local disk.