[bt-devel] Bible Time Development - Search Dialog

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Gary,

I second Eeli's mail.

Doing translations with tr() is a manual process, and we would have to do it 
for all languages of modules that are and will be available for sword. This is 
not possible as new modules of minority languages are being integrated into 
the different repositories.

I vote for the automatic solution: The languages that you can configure in BT 
are already determined by the installed modules. So for each language there is 
at least one module available. Therefore you only have to find one module in 
the language to be configured (preferrably a bible, but not neccessarily) and 
retrieve the text of the first entry. This is simple and automatic.

Martin

Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008 07:40:14 schrieb Gary Holmlund:
> Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> > Quoting Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>:
> >> I have checked in the changes for the search dialog. I will work on
> >> the config dialog next unless someone else is working on it.
> >
> > Thanks for your first contributions!
> >
> > The config dialog is all yours. If you start working on the font
> > chooser I suggest you consider my thoughts on it:
> > http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime1Refactoring#Ideas_from_Eeli.2C
> >_explanation_needed
> >
> > We just need something which works so you are free to keep the current
> > functionality and layout (or modify them slightly), but it would be
> > great if we could make it better. The current implementation is not
> > very good for our purposes because it may show something completely
> > different than the real text. You can't tell how the Hebrew font works
> > for Hebrew if you can see only "...brown fox..." in the preview.
> > Additionally, IIRC the preview doesn't use the html view and the html
> > engine may actually use different font.
> >
> > --Eeli Kaikkonen
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> I finished changing the config dialog to use BtConfigDialog instead of
> KPageDialog. I am starting to work on the font chooser. I think it would
> be best to do it in 2 steps.
>
> First, write a replacement for KFontChooser using QWebView for the text
> preview area. I have already started and it does not look hard.
>
> Second, consider and make the enhancements desired for the font chooser.
>
> One question I have on the enhancements is what text to use. Perhaps it
> could be a verse that is entered using the tr() function so it can
> easily be translated for each language. I would have to set the
> translation language for the specific phrase in the program. Will this
> method work right for Hebrew and Greek text? I will have to study this
> some to know if it can be made to work.
>
> Gary
>
>
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