Addon:Historical Context

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Historical Events for Person from the example.tree

Historical Context gramplet

This gramplet is in development. The documentation is currently in the GitHub (online code development management system) repository of Kaj Mikkelsen. Review the README.md in the HistContext repository.

Available in the Dashboard, People and Relationship category views, this Gramplet displays historical events that occurred within the lifespan of the active person. It references lists which have the start year, end year, the Event descriptions and a URL about that Event.

A double-click on a row will open your preferred browser at the provided Link.

Configuration options dialog)

Configuration options

The View -> Configure... offers a variety of filtering options for the lists of Events.

• Filter string - excludes Events where the "Text" column starts with a particular exact string

If the string is set to "Cen", then all lines where the text starts with "Cen" will be filtered out. (i.e., "Census" as well as "Century")

• Use filter - deselected by default,enables the filter if selected
• Hide outside life span - selected by default, show only those in the life span of the Active Person.
• Files -
• Foreground color items in lifespan - (#000000 default, black) text color
• Background color items in lifespan - (#ffffff default, white) shading

#ffffef pale yellow in screen capture

• Foreground color items outside lifespan - (#000000 default, black) text color

#a00000 dark red in screen capture

• Background color items outside lifespan - (#ededed default, light grey) shading

"Pick a Color" - palette selector dialog

"Pick a Color" - gradient selector dialog

Click on any color swatch in the Colors tab of the Edit -> Preferences to show the Pick a Color dialog. Then click the + button in the Custom colors at the bottom to show the color picker. Copy the value to the Historical Context options. Cancel the Pick a Color dialog.

See Also

• GitHub
  • kajmikkelsen repository
  • HistContext
• Discourse
  • My first gramplet - for gramps 5.2
  • error building a listing for a new gramplet
  • add option for boolean options in gramplet
  • translating addons

WikiContributor Help

• WikiContributors category

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Plugin / Documentation	Type	Image	Description	Use	Rating (out of 4)	Contact	Download
Historical Context	Gramplet		Lists relevant historical events during the lifetime of a Person	All		Gramps Bugtracker Kaj Mikkelsen	HistContext.addon.tgz