Hello everyone, Since about the middle of 2022, I have been working on and off on a navigable tree visualization of ancestors, descendants, and other relatives . I was trying to create a view that looked more organized/consistent than the Graph View, and that easily displays basic information about…

Excelent ! Please, do not change the expanders - they are very intuitive. In your example image, there’s a dotted line between the top pair and child. I haven’t seen that on my data. What does the dotted line indicate? If I expand a second spouse, and edit one of the “expanded” persons, then the …

[image] stuck: Thank you, that’s a big help. @stuck I’m glad the feature is working well for you and that you find it helpful! [image] stuck: It does seem odd though that this second family expands to the left, which means all the children of that second family, who are younger than tho…

[image] Claus Samuelsen: Excelent ! Please, do not change the expanders - they are very intuitive. @csam Thanks for your positive feedback! If no one has a strong counter-argument, I’ll leave the symbols as they are. [image] Claus Samuelsen: In your example image, there’s a dotted line…

[image] ztlxltl: I hope that what I’m trying to explain is understandable, and that this illustrates the problems that can arise if you try to sort too much. Yes, thank you. However, the Interactive Family Tree plugin keeps the two marriages in chronological order, i.e. the second wife appea…

[image] stuck: two marriages in chronological order, i.e. the second wife appears to the right of the first wife, and descendant generations don’t seem to suffer from crossing lines. @stuck This sounds like only the marriages are sorted, not the nth cousins over a whole generation. Sorting t…

[image] ztlxltl: Sorting the marriages might be possible with a different visualization Here is another visualization idea, using boxes for families instead of people.

Hello. I have noticed that expanders for other families don’t show for generations older than the active person. [image] In this example, the active person is Marie Anne Boudin. You can see that her father Pierre has a second family, but there is no expander. If I select his mother or father (or…

[image] GeorgeWilmes: Here is another visualization idea, using boxes for families instead of people. Thanks for the link! The idea looks interesting, but I’m not sure if this idea could be integrated into FamilyTreeView. Most likely this is more suited for a dedicated project with this idea …

[image] ztlxltl: As always, let me know your feedback and bug reports! Could you add something to the wishlist? I’d like a presentation mode. Where (unlike the rest of the GUI) living and Private data is suppressed/redacted. Perhaps the relationship to the home_person could be subbed for th…

[image] ztlxltl: Most likely this is more suited for a dedicated project with this idea in mind from the beginning. Yes, when you are ready for a new challenge. :slight_smile:

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Here is another visualization idea, using boxes for families instead of people.

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