[mobile-devel] future ideas for And-Bible

[Gordon Diamant]

I would find a "longer" (remembering previous sessions) history useful.
 OliveTree displays history in folders by date.  Maybe the bookmark labels
could be used for this somehow?
Thanks.
;;;Gordon




On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> This morning I ran into the problem where I could not scroll to the last
> verse on my HTC EVO.  I think the solution is to calculate the number of
> lines the last verse uses.  Then take the screen height in lines minus the
> number of line for the last verse which should equal the number of lines to
> pad the bottom.  Or another option would be to just force the last verse to
> stop scrolling when it reaches the top of the screen and pad enough empty
> lines to get there.
>
> Another idea is for split screens by holding the tab and swiping down,
> swipe up to go back to full screen.
>
> My last idea is the back button would go back to the previous location but
> a press and hold would end the program.
>
> O and the history should allow me to move not just backwards but also
> forwards.  Sometimes I move backwards to check something and then want to go
> forward again to where I was.
>
> And thank you very much for all your work on this reader.  I'll be reading
> my Bible more again.  :)
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matthew,
>>
>> *Chinese Search*
>> The intention is to add Chinese Search.  The LuceneAnalyzer used by JSword
>> to do Chinese search requires a lot of memory and consequently did not work
>> on mobile phones so I disabled it but we need to find an alternative Chinese
>> LuceneAnalyzer with lower memory requirements.
>>
>> This need keeps slipping down my list partly because of the difficulty I
>> would have handling anything Chinese characters and being able to tell if a
>> search was working correctly or not.  It would be great if somebody who
>> knows a little Chinese and Java were to pick this up with support from
>> myself and Matthew.
>>
>> *Strong's ref Search*
>> I am planning to add a link to the bottom of Strong's ref pages that would
>> cause a search for all occurrences of that ref in the current bible.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Martin
>>
>> On 1 February 2011 01:47, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Martin,
>>>
>>> Great work on and-bible! I have been real busy lately, and so rather
>>> silent on the list, but have been reading everything.
>>>
>>> I second the highlighting; that would be great.
>>>
>>> Also, the idea of being able to insert personal notes connected to a
>>> verse is great, or at least to a chapter. I mentioned this before, but at
>>> the time you acted like that might be a long way off. The iOS Mantis Bible
>>> app does this really well, and I would like to be able to do something like
>>> this in And-Bible, so as not to switch between apps... :)
>>>
>>> The new grid is a definite improvement. Thanks.
>>>
>>> As to Chinese search, I joined the jsword-devel list as was recommended,
>>> hoping to catch some chatter on there about Chinese language issues, but it
>>> seems to have instantly died down. I am wondering what was learned at that
>>> time. I am still a little curious why Chinese search cannot be done entirely
>>> on single characters, using "AND"s and what-nots to tie a more complicated
>>> search together... I don't think there is any real reason to attempt to
>>> search via pinyin phrase, which of course would be much more complicated (at
>>> least according to my understanding, which may be goofed) to implement. I
>>> don't think anyone who uses Chinese seriously would really need to search
>>> the Chinese text via pinyin.
>>>
>>> Also, it would be great to be able to search text according to Strong's
>>> ref numbers, to compare translation and context of the underlying
>>> Greek/Hebrew text. I do this all the time in Bibletime/Xiphos. I saw someone
>>> else mentioned this functionality.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for the hard work you've put into this. It is really shaping
>>> up to be a nice program, and works well.
>>>
>>> Matthew Patenaude
>>>
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