[bt-devel] KDE4, Qt4, and Windows porting... plus DCOP

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Monday 08 August 2005 10:45 am, Mathias Bavay wrote:

> WINDOWS sword front end could be used... And only Biblestudy (partially)
> fulfills my needs (modern GUI, easy enough, ... but still a lot to do
> before that software to become a real, nice Bible study tool). This is why
> BibleTime would be amazingly great. BibleTime being light years ahead of
> any Sword front end for Windows, a port would be wonderfull and perfectly
> needed.

That's very interesting... and exciting.  OK.  You guys have convinced me that 
a Windows port is a worthwhile endeavor.

> > cross-platform app -- it might be better to unite with a project that's
> > closer to realizing this goal than create a port to compete with them.
>
> There is no way to re-use BibleTime's code into a MFC, WxWidgets, ... app.
> QT is QT, MFC is MFC, ... and the only part that is common to all these
> projects is.... the Sword engine (that is already shared).

I didn't really mean to merge the code... I meant merge the programmers (man 
power).

> One of the great strength of BibleTime is its management of non-English
> languages and specially other alphabets. Currently with Biblestudy, there
> is the problem that this is based on WxWidgets that does NOT support RtoL
> texts... so this is a big problem for Arabic, ... And since the Word of God

I didn't realize that.  On the same note, would BibleTime benefit from SIL's 
Graphite library?  (http://silgraphite.sf.net and/or http://graphite.sil.org)  
Is this something that would need integration with Qt, KHTML, or directly 
into BibleTime?

Peace,
Gabriel

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