[mobile-devel] Greetings

[Tóth Tamás]

Hi Barry,

I'm sorry to inform you but none of express editions (2005-2010) 
supports mobile development. You need at least VS2005 Standard, VS2008 
Professional or VS2010 Premium editions to build code for mobile 
devices. Of course you might want to fall back to VC4 but than you can 
use only WinCE 2002/2003 SDKs. WinMo 5 SDK and higher requires 
VisualStudio .NET or newer. (This is why I use VS2005, it is the 
cheapest way I've found for developing for the latest WinMo platforms 
~$50 CD&Key).

I'm not planning to write any specific code that requires newer than 
WinMo 5, so no need to worry about it.

I've found the text searching code part in the sword library but I don't 
want to use it since WinMo has no setlocale compatible stricmp method 
that it's built on.
I'm planning to implement an utf-8 supporting search method specific for 
SwordReader.

So I'll start the development and inform you if I reach my primary goals 
and want to commit code changes. Until then I check my e-mails regularly.

About bible texts: I'll check this OSIS format and I'll contact the 
licence holders of course.

Regards,
    Tommy


Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi Tommy ............
> Sorry I misunderstood.  VS2005 is fine.  Would be nice if we could 
> build it with the free VC++ Express 2008 .... but I haven't the time 
> to look into that myself.  Your source is just fine and current.  You 
> should start from Trunk - not an earlier revision.  I confirm that no 
> one else has worked on SwordReader for about a year.
>
> Tóth Tamás wrote:
>> Is there any description of file formats sword use that I can use? I 
>> would like to be sure that UTF-8 codeset is commonly used (not only 
>> my hungarian translations) and I would like to convert some of my 
>> favourite translations into sword format if it's possible (of course 
>> it is surely possible, I mean if I can ;o)
> When I was working on it, I found WinMo was very mixed (and not very 
> good) in its handling of strings.  I was using WM 5.  If you are 
> writing code specific to WM greater than 5, this needs to be 
> specified, so we know what is the last revision that will work with WM5.
> The search function is not handled directly by the front end.  It is 
> all dealt with by the Sword library that SwordReader links with.  The 
> search string can (as far as I'm aware) be passed to the engine in any 
> valid UTF-8 form, and the proper search will take place.  Questions 
> about the engine need to be raised with the guys on Sword Devel list, 
> as I am not knowledgeable enough to handle them.
> You will need to ask Troy Griffits for commit access to svn.  Until 
> you are granted that, you will only be able to download.  I am very 
> happy for you to be part of the team, and will try to help is I am able.
>
> As for language formats for Sword modules, any format that you can 
> encode in OSIS should work OK with the engine.  Crosswire is happy to 
> receive OSIS files for any module you make, and provided you can show 
> that we have copyright owner's permission, we will be happy to include 
> it on the Crosswire site.
>
> God bless,
> Barry
>
> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East 
> Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church.  See 
> http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and 
> http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages.
>
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