Re: [Gramps-devel] Descendant FanChart report

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Emmanuel Tavernier
<emm...@la...> wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> I have been writing a modification of the Fan Chart report to create a
> descendant fan chart (starts from a chosen center person and unfolds for
> its descendants). It is not quite finished, as it is not optimized and I
> have not yet done the effort of bundling it into an installable add-on.
> For the time being, I just import the py file located in
> gramps/plugins/drawreports in the add-on manager. My questions are the
> following :
> - Has anyone already worked on such an add-on ?

Sounds interesting. I haven't seen one, I don't think.

> - Is there a 'test family' I could work on to check various features ?

There are a couple of example databases:

http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/example/gramps/data.gramps?revision=10822&pathrev=16235
http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/example/gramps/example.gramps?revision=16235&pathrev=16235

> For example I checked double marriages, but there might be other
> standard situations that are more complicated to handle.
> - If anybody is interested in trying this add-on, should I send it to
> this list, or should I post it directly into the third party add-on part
> of the gramps wiki ?

The best way is to add it to the gramps-addons repository. For more
details, see:

http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Addons_development

> - Lastly, one thing that really slows my developping is the need to
> reload the add-on in gramps, run report etc. Is there a way to simply
> call the report generator on the command line and automatically have it
> connect to the database to generate a test report ?

Yes. See:

http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_3.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Command_Line#report_action_option

> Something similar to
> if __MAIN__ etc...
>
> What the script does for the time being is run through the family of all
> descendants for a given number of generations, and for each person
> assign a wedge angle proportionnal to its number of descendants. Then it
> creates the wedges and writes name and dates radially. I only have
> examples for my family now, so if there were a test family, I could send
> you some pdfs.

Look forward to seeing it!

-Doug

> Thank you,
>
>
> Emmanuel.
>
>
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