Addon:Graph View

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Graph View - plugin addon - In action

What is Graph View

Graph View is a view plugin that presents a navigable descendant tree using the current active person as a starting point. Clicking another person in the family tree will make that person the active person and will redraw the family tree based on them.

Features

  • Interactive.
  • The active person is highlighted.
  • Clicking a person will redraw the family tree based on that person.
  • Clicking the active person will show the parent family of the active person, thereby allowing previous generations to be shown.
  • The view can be panned by using mouse click and drag. Select the background of the tree and drag the mouse to pan the view.
  • The view can be zoomed using the slider.
  • A right mouse click on a person or family node shows the person or family editor as appropriate.
  • Right click a family to add or delete a spouse or child.
  • The view redraws in response to changes made to a person or family.

Configure Options

You can change the following:

  • Layout
    • Show images : checkbox selected by default
    • Highlight the home person : checkbox selected by default
    • Show full dates
    • Show places
  • Colors
    • Home person color: #bbe68a(default)

Installation

The Graph View plugin can be installed from within Gramps. Go to menu Edit -> Preferences and click the Check now button to see a list of plugins which are not installed on your computer. From the list expand out the New:Gramps View line and select the checkbox for Graph View(x.x.xx) then press Install selected Addons, once installed you will need to restart Gramps before using the Graph View.

Pre Requisites

Before Graph View can be used you will need the following installed:

All of these should be available in common Linux distributions.

For example, Debian packages Goocanvas/PyGoocanvas as libgoocanvas3 and python-pygoocanvas.