[bt-devel] Bt 2.9 Feature - Parallel Bible and Commentary

[Martin Gruner]

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Am 09.12.10 07:00, schrieb Gary Holmlund:
> Since we won't have a meeting immediately, I will suggest a feature I
> have been looking into.
>
> Now in our Bible window we can have parallel Bible versions, but the
> commentary can only be in another window and we use the sync icon to
> have that window track any verse change in the Bible window.
>
> I have prototyped selecting a commentary as a parallel item in a Bible
> window. Both use the same verse key references and I found little
> problem with this. The main issue I found was that various places use
> the first module and its type (Bible versus commentary) to determine
> what to do. So the restriction would be that there must always be a
> Bible module as the first module. The seems to make sense in a Bible
> window so I don't feel bad about that. This can be enforced by
> designing the UI in the module choosers such that you can't remove the
> last Bible module.
>
> The module choosers (toolbar icons and the parallel text headers) are
> the main items that I would need to finish changing. For the Bible
> window they will need to deal with multiple languages and two
> categories of modules.
>
> Here is a picture of what it would look like.
> http://sourcearchives.com/downloads/parallel.png
>
> What do you think?
>
> Gary
>
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