Problem: I would like to visually and quickly indicate to other family members and tree viewers (and to myself) that certain profiles -- often, old ones -- are less certain. It may be that I'm reconstructing an extensive tree from tabular data, or that there is only scant data, but I would like to add entries to get started. Sometimes a tree is a work-in-progress and entries are provisional. Sometimes an entry is an educated guess, or has a reasonable probability of being the case. It is also the case that there is a range of subjective certainty.
For example: I am absolutely certain who one of my great grandfathers is. We have photos and records etc. However, his father we only know from a statement on a ship manifest. I would like to indicate visually that we are 100% certain of great grandfather and about say, 60% sure of great great grandfather.
Proposal:
In the profile section, have a certainty rating from 1 to 5, which defaults to 5 (most certain).
In the tree, set the transparency of each node based on the certainty in the profile. So a certainty of 4 would have 80% opacity, 1 would have 20% opacity. I'm pretty sure Flash has the ability to set transparency for layered objects. I think this would be a beautiful and economical way of conveying the certainty of profiles.
