[jsword-devel] Hebrew/Greek defs as tooltips

[Daniel Owens]

On 1/11/2010 10:15 AM, DM Smith wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 09:05 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
>> I want to affirm this effort as well. I wonder if there is a way to 
>> give access to lemma and morphology information without having to see 
>> the Strong's number, lemma, or morphology codes. I know that many 
>> users will want to see the Strong's numbers, but for those who are 
>> trying to read in a fluid fashion this clutters the screen. It would 
>> be nice to have access to the information without cluttering the 
>> screen. BibleTime implements this nicely using sword. I would think 
>> that jsword could handle this as well, though I speak from ignorance. 
>> Perhaps words themselves could be a link without the underlined blue 
>> text? There is just so much to commend BibleDesktop/Alkitab already. 
>> This would really move things forward when it comes to reading Greek 
>> and Hebrew
>
> Any implementation of a tooltip for this info is a great plus. And it 
> can be improved from there. Once Yingjie gets a good implementation 
> going we should put it in and do a release.
>
> There were several things that drove the current implementation:
> 1) By having the words be hyperlined, everything was underlined. This 
> caused huge performance problems. By having separate links, it was 
> easier to move the mouse over the page.
> 2) Without popups we could not present both morphology and 
> lemma/strongs. Also some had more than one Strong's number. There was 
> no way to have more than one link for a given word or phrase, except 
> as we have it.
> 3) Without popups we could not show the data from more than one 
> dictionary.
>
>
> If you haven't looked at the Bible Tool's handling of Strong's numbers 
> and morphology, it is pretty slick. (See 
> http://www.crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?mod=KJV, you may need 
> to Show Strongs and Show Morphology on the right). Clicking on a word 
> will cause the phrase tied to the Strong's number to be shown in bold 
> and underlined. Also all of the words in view that have the same 
> Strong's number are also highlighted. The tooltip come up based upon 
> the placement of the mouse click.
>
> The tooltip also has navigation to other features.
>
> If possible, I'd like to do away with the hyperlinks altogether and 
> figure out precisely what word is under the mouse.
>
> I'm looking at flyingsaucer as a possible replacement for the current 
> renderer. This may overcome the limitations of the current HTML 
> renderer. Also, it appears that it can directly render any XML given a 
> stylesheet. So rather than converting to html we may be able to 
> directly render OSIS or a simple transformation of it.
>
> In Him,
>     DM
>
This sounds great. I did look at the Bible Tool. I would think that 
jsword, in making it an off-line implementation, could speed it up 
remarkably. I am excited to see where this goes.

Daniel


>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 1/11/2010 7:14 AM, Mullins, Steven wrote:
>>> Wonderful ideas!  Would be a good idea create an option for the font
>>> used to render the tooltip for each language.  For example, I use
>>> Gentium for Greek and SIL Ezra for Hebrew.
>>>
>>> Getting closer to BibleWorks!
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Yingjie Lan [mailto:lanyjie at yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:16 AM
>>> To: J-Sword Developers Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] Hebrew/Greek defs as tooltips
>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not expert either. but I do create the tooltip
>>>> for Alkitab which
>>>>> is using JSword as base.
>>>>> - I just simply add hyperlink entered and excited for
>>>> Tooltip displaying
>>>>> - and from the HyperlinkEvent object, I get the
>>>> description of the link
>>>>> - and use the description above to construct the
>>>> JSword Key object to
>>>>> find the particular text (strongs,morph,etc)
>>>>> - then use the usual xslt tranform to transform it
>>>> into html text
>>>>> - and finally display it as tooltip popup.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to see the code, you can get Alkitab
>>>> source code from
>>>>> http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/index.html under
>>>> developer
>>>>> section (public domain).
>>>>>
>>>> Almost forget, the above is the simple version. However, if
>>>> you want
>>>> to integrate with user options/preferences things will be a
>>>> little bit
>>>> complex, because you need to format the xslt transform
>>>> using user
>>>> options/preferences. And the source book for info (eg:
>>>> bible,Hebrew/Greek def book) you also need to get it from
>>>> user
>>>> options/preferences (from preferred book section).
>>>>
>>>> And for performance (user perceived performance) I need to
>>>> wrap the
>>>> above code using Swing EDT for tooltip displaying, due to
>>>> swing slow
>>>> parsing html code
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Tonny Kohar
>>>> -- 
>>>> Alkitab Bible Study
>>>> http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/index.html
>>>>
>>> Hi, this is very helpful, thank you. I have another question: Do you
>>> somehow control the dimension of the tooltip box? when there is no line
>>> break, would the tool tip turns out to be too long?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Yingjie
>
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