[bt-devel] Proposed change for BibleTime

[Gary Holmlund]

Jaak,

Thank you for the approval and the suggestions. Perhaps you will have 
other suggestions as this feature develops.

Gary


On 09/20/2018 11:47 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> Hi, Gary!
>
> On 21.09.2018 05:25, Gary Holmlund wrote:
>> I wanted your approval before going any farther.
> Thank you for the update. You have my approval. As you have probably
> already noticed, I'm not currently a (very) active BibleTime developer,
> and I don't want to get in your way with things. So feel free to go
> ahead with this feature and merge/rebase to master when ready.
>
>
>> It is implemented for the "read" windows. Most features are implemented.
>> The main missing features now relate to the context menus (Find, copy,
>> etc.). These are not a problem to finish. They just require some more
>> time. Optionally we could eliminate all usage of QWebEngine by working
>> on the MAG view, the personal commentary editing, the search dialog, the
>> about dialog, etc.
> I compiled and ran BibleTime from your mv2 branch, and it looks good.
> One glitch I noticed is that the BtBibleKeyWidget did not update the
> location when I scrolled the view using the scrollbar.
>
> You might also want to think about improving scrolling with mouse, e.g.
> change the cursor to a grab cursor when the user can grab the document
> to scroll, perhaps implement some means for faster scrolling, and
> perhaps even automatic scrolling. For example, in Okular one can grab
> the document with the cursor and then scroll it with moving the cursor
> even up to the top or bottom edge of the screen beyond which scrolling
> continues so that the cursor appears at the opposite of the screen still
> holding the grab. Okular also has the nice feature of automatic
> scrolling, which can be toggled and incrementally acceleratedor
> decelerated by the Shift+Up or Shift+Down key combinations.
>
> J
>
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