[bt-devel] ~/.sword

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi!

Troy, the new ~/.sword mechanism works very well with 0.23 and 0.3. Thank you!

I'll think about the questions.

--Joachim

>Hey guys,
>	Has anyone been sucessful trying out the ~/.sword/mods.d/personal.conf
>configuration with bibletime yet?  I got it to work here with 0.23.
>
>My plans:
>	A while back we added methods to the SWModule interface to allow
>creation of module files:
>
>Actually it exists on the actual driver classes like rawverse:
>
>/******************************************************************************
> * RawVerse::CreateModule     - Creates new module files
> *
> * ENT: path   - directory to store module files
> * RET: error status
> */
>
>char RawVerse::CreateModule(char *path)
>
>
>Ultimately I would like to abstract the multiple inheritance of these
>classes out and create an SWDataSource interface that these will
>implement.  Then instead of inheriting these classes, SWModule will have
>an instance of an SWDataSource.  This will mean that we will no longer
>have RawText and zText classes, but instead a Text class that is
>constructed with the appropriate data source driver (rawtext compressed
>text, etc.)
>
>Anyway, back to the point.  I would like the SWModule interface to have
>the above CreateModule call that will pass the call to its datasource
>asking for the creation of a new, empty storage repository of a module
>of this type.
>
>This will allow you to create user commentaries instead of downloading
>and installing a clean fileset in the personal module that we now have.
>
>This will also allow for, in the future, tools for user developed
>modules and tools for converting from module type to module type (raw to
>compressed, or vica versa).
>
>
>Just wanted to give you a heads up.  You have some decision that you may
>need to make regarding the UI.
>
>Some questions you might want to ask:
>
>Should bibletime popup an editor for ANY module that is writable?
>Should bibletime have a single user notes modules?
>Should bibletime not attempt to provide module creation functionality,
>leaving this to other separate tools?
>If bibletime allows for multiple user notes, should it also allow Bibles
>and dictionaries to be edited?
>
>
>Any thoughts to me now would be a great time before we dig in and start
>these changes.

-- Joachim
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