[jsword-devel] updates

Mark Goodwin goodwinster at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 06:34:13 MST 2004


Aha.  It is there, it's just invisible because it doesn't fit in the
panel.  If I move the pane divider it appears!

Patch on the way.

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:20:29 +0100, Mark Goodwin <goodwinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bizarre.
> 
> The 'Refresh Index' button in the SitePane doesn't appear for me.  If
> I change the Refresh.Name property to something even one character
> smaller (e.g. 'Refresh Inde', 'Refres Index'), it works fine.
> 
> I've only seen this on OS X - anyone know why this is happening?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55:49 +0100, Joe Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've tweaked the Msg file as you sent.
> > I've also changed the titles of the tabs to be:
> > - Installed Books
> > - Download From Crosswire
> >
> > While I was at it I put a black border round the splash screen which I
> > think was needed.
> >
> > Joe.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:06:11 +0100, Mark Goodwin <goodwinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Agreed, a wizard is the way forward...
> > >
> > > It looks great.  Putting my 'managed to stay awake during at least one
> > > HCI lecture at uni' hat on, I can see a couple of things we might want
> > > to look at:
> > >
> > > 1) Perhaps we should tell the new users where in the tools menu they
> > > can go to install books (see attachment).  Pedantic, perhaps, but a
> > > new program is a bewildering thing to lots of people.
> > >
> > > 2)  The books dialogue appears a) on the wrong tab, and b) with no
> > > book metadata available.  This means that users have to realise not
> > > only that this 'crosswire' tab is where they go to get bibles that
> > > aren't already installed, but that they need to 'refresh' this list
> > > (that wasn't populated in the first place).
> > >
> > > I didn't look at how to fix point 2, and I'm not sure I'll have time
> > > today,  Do you reckon it's worth looking at?
> > >
> > > A final thought; do you think renaming the 'Crosswire' tab to
> > > 'Internet' (at least while we only ship with a single remote installer
> > > / location) would help new users?
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > MarkG
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:08:38 +0100, Joe Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I realised that a "How to install Bibles" wizarad could be as simple
> > > > as a 10 liner to popup a warning dialog if no Bibles installed on
> > > > launch, so I added it.
> > > >
> > > > I think we're done with 0.9.8. I'm going to spend some time poking
> > > > around, and if I don't find anything, and if no-one points out any
> > > > issues then I'll label it and we're done.
> > > >
> > > > Joe.
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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