[bt-devel] Bible Application for Mobile Devices

[Greg Hellings]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Костя,
>
> To use RichText we would have to have a different renderer. I am not sure
> I want to make this now. I still hope that Qt 5.2 will support WebKit on
> Android. You have had a rich text renderer in the past for Mini. Was it
> hard to make? We can do it at a later date if we decide it is the only
> choice.
>

The engine supports RTF output, FYI. FMT_RTF should get you that. It's only
used in BibleCS (aka The SWORD Project for Windows). So creating the
renderer shouldn't be /too/ difficult.

--Greg


>
> Developing on Qt 4.8 does not seem like a good choice since the QML code
> (Quick 1.0) is depreciated.
>
> I think that developing Quick 2 on desktops is the best choice for now.
>
> I am going to look at a single window mode for smaller displays. If you
> wish to work on the install manager, I will avoid changes in that area.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> On 08/23/2013 05:06 AM, Костя Маслюк wrote:
>
>  It think we would use Qt RichText for a while. It is used in Mini for a
> long time and WebKit is an runtime option on platforms that supports it. I
> know that it is not full functional but it was enough.
>  Or develop on desktops, i simply do not know what a features supply
> WebKit that Qt RichText haven't (except images, proper css handling).
>
>  Necessitas project that support Qt 4.8.2 on Android have WebKit support
> but have QtQuick1 modules only.
>
>
> 2013/8/23 Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>
>
>> On 08/22/2013 07:25 AM, Костя Маслюк wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried Mobile on Android, but without WebKit support in Qt, it
>>> does not makes sense (fails loading qml file). I also fixed one issue,
>>> related to comparison between translated and non-translated strings.
>>>
>>> Related to WebKit support on Android,
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32093
>>>
>>>  I had missed the fact that WebView did not come with the Qt 5.1
>> Android port. I can see this is on the list they want to do for the next Qt
>> release, but it is not guaranteed to be in Qt 5.2
>>
>> I don't know that we have a good choice now. We could:
>>
>>  1. Continue on developing a QML version on linux or windows and hope the
>> Qt 5.2 (or later) has the WebView for Android.  The QML "Text" type
>> supports html and we may be able to use it in the sort term and make an
>> Android version.
>>
>>  2. Wait on the QML version and put more effort into the widget version
>> of Mini.
>>
>> What are your thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
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