[jsword-devel] Sword drivers

[Joe Walker]

Hi,

Mark Goodwin wrote:

>Hello people.
>
>Plain text Sword drivers are now working.
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>
Woo Woo. Fantastic. Good work.

I'm just syncing with your code. I noticed one problem that you've 
obviously thought "I wonder if there is already a solution to this"; And 
there is.
You coded words to the effect:
  // TODO: perhaps should un-hardcode that -39?
  ... getText(TESTAMENT_NEW, bookNo-39, ...

So I changed it to:
  ... getText(TESTAMENT_NEW, bookNo - Books.Names.Malachi, ...

I knew there was some reason for me writing that code ...

>The old Sword drivers, although very elegant were very broken (so
>broken, in fact that I suspect the Sword module format must have
>changed). Rather than figure out why, I just re-implemented the file
>position calculation stuff using LUTs shamelessly stolen from cannon.h
>in Sword (thanks Troy!).
>
I'm sure it worked once. Although it was a loooong time ago.

>It's worked fine with every Bible I've tried so far, but please note any
>Bible that contains non plain text (i.e. marginal notes / Strong's
>references) will just display the additional data as if it was part of
>the Bible.  This can be fixed later (perhaps by someone who knows what
>this markup means).
>  
>
This is a big question - separate mail ...

>I had to make some changes to ensure Configs are created and loaded
>before the SDI displays to ensure BibleDrivers were correctly configured
>before they were used. I've not yet replaced the splash.setProgress
>stuff because there was lots of work involved, and the configs seem to
>create and load quickly.  If people think this needs doing I'll go over
>all the code in Desktop.java changing numbers...
>  
>
The idea is that BibleDriver et al. give you a dynamic view of what 
Bibles are available, so there is a BiblesListener etc. and the 
BiblesComboBoxModel *should* listen. I suspect that it doesn't however ...

Joe.