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Whats new in Flower Genie 4
- Program Name changes
- Works on Windows 10 and previous versions of Windows
- Core data has been relocated
- New Interface
- New User Preferences
Choose a Font and Font size
- A new graphical presentation of photos
This is one of the most significant and exciting changes
- A special Master Database is now part of the installation (essential files only).
- FG037 - Plants & Gardens program. Extensively enhanced- in particular the graphical presentation of thumbnails.
- FG005 - Garden Area Photos program extensively reworked.
More graphical presentation due to introduction of Thumbnails
- NEW Open another Database program. Replaces the Switch Databases program in Version 3
- NEW Check for Updates program
- Language Translation programs enhanced
Data has been relocated
The Core data
folder (the default data folder) is now installed into the Program Data folder structure on your computer.
To see where data is located in your installation, click the Help tab and use the program
About Flower Genie - FG200
New interface
Two interface options: Classic and Photo
All screens are now resizable and can be repositioned.
Heres an example:- Screenshot Cascaded
New in User Preferences
- Option to choose your preferred Font and Font Size and Bold/Normal
Language features
- Option: Choose another language
See screenshot Choose-another-language
- Option: I wish to do language translations
When this is checked (and changes saved) and you view Help text anywhere within
the system then a double panel Help screen appears - English on the left and a panel on the right for you to fill with your translated text.
See screenshot GA000S01-1
A new graphical presentation of photos
Before, you were presented with a bland
list of file names when you viewed Plant photos in FG037 and Garden Photos in FG005.
Now, in FG037 and FG005, you see a page of Thumbnails, in addition to the file list (which now behaves like an
index).
FG037 Example:-
FG005 example
As before, your original photos are not altered.
Thumbnails are automatically created by Flower Genie.
By default, they are stored in a folder
on your computer but the program provides options so you can save them on any device.
This technique is used in FG037-Plants & Gardens, FG005-Garden Photos.
A special Master Database is now part of the installation (essential files only)
The Master
Database is now installed automatically when you install Flower Genie 4 as a download or from a CD.
Adding a new plant to your own database is easy.
You type a few characters of the plant name
which you wish to add to your own database, the software refers to this Master Database and instantaneously provides a short list of matches from the Master Database of over 36,000 plants.
If your
new plant is listed, click a button to add to your own database.
To see this in action, see Screenshot FG100S40-02
NOTES:
The Master Database we offer on DVD on our website is well over 1GB, much too large for
downloading.
Our solution in Bank Genie 4 was to provide an essential files version of the Master Database (smaller download file size) yet having the full list of over 36,000 plant names.
It does not contain disc photos.
FG005 - Garden Area Photos program extensively reworked
- More graphical presentation due to introduction of Thumbnails
NEW:- Open another Database program - FG026.
Replaces the Switch Databases program in Version 3
Open any other Flower Genie 4 database.
You can also do a backup to Dropbox and use it on any computer with Flower Genie 4.
The upgrade procedure
- Install from a download or from CD
- Installs as a unique software item, it its own folders.
- The older version is unaffected
- One simple program required to import and upgrade the data from the older version.
This program is located under the File tab on the Menu
The program is coded to
know where your older data is located, so all you need to do is click a GO button
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