Martin, thank you for all your work. If my reply are not clear please do ask questions, replies in red below,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Martin Denham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjdenham@gmail.com">mjdenham@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have started looking into the implementation of Dictionaries and I have various thoughts regarding the design but I thought that while I am still in the early stages I would ask if anybody has any particular ideas in this area. I have a few questions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Do you use Strongs Greek or Hebrew dictionary on your mobile phone? <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>YES</b></font></div><div>Personally I know minimal Greek and Hebrew and would rarely use Strongs. Do people analyse Greek and Hebrew definitions on their mobile using Strongs?</div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>YES</b></font><div> I am just trying to see what the requirement is for this before going ahead. I suspect theological students would all say yes but most people who love to read their bible can't read Greek or Hebrew.</div>
<div><div><div>It would be interesting to get Crosswire module download stats for the different books, epecially Strongs. Does anybody know if that is possible?</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>2. Do you use general dictionaries on your mobile phone?</div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>YES</b></font>
<div>I have often used ISBE in the past but no others.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Design of Strongs integration in And Bible.</div><div>3.a I was initially planning to add Strongs numbers in pressable links like most s/w that would take you to a page showing the strongs detail for the ref pressed. <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>Rather than a page I would prefer split screen so I could view the Bible text and the other text at the same time. Give me a text box to enter the item into and volia up pops the text in the 2nd half od the screen. Also include presets for the dictionary, Strong's, etc. Oh, and a button that brings up a popup window that allows for easy changing to another text.</b></font> </div>
<div>3.b Another alternative might be to do something similar to the Notes functionality where all the Strongs numbers in a verse are looked up and displayed in a long list. <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000"><b>Long list are bad :)</b></font> Either the Strongs detail could be pre-loaded with the numbers or clicking a list item would take you to the detail. The advantage of this is that often it is difficult to hit exactly the correct link in a web page and this completely avoid small links in between words. Android and iPhone don't have a stylus and so press accuracy is severely diminished.</div>
<div>3.c A modification might be NOT to display Strongs numbers in the page thereby avoiding page clutter but either to use letters (like Notes and x-refs) or to use different colours for words. The number would be displayed after navigation to the Strongs ref.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>3. Design of general Dictionary integration in And Bible.</div></div><div>This seems less problematic. If you select a module that is a dictionary you show some sort of navigation screen and then show the page selected. An alternative would be to go to the last page viewed and allow change by opening a navigation page but I think most people will view an entry once. For navigation I am thinking of an expandable tree with a-z at the first level and words at the second but I need to analyse dictionary keys to check that is possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any screen prints from Pocket sword would be great.</div><div><br></div><div>All thoughts or ideas are welcome. In the end I am often driven by implementation issues especially with such small devices as mobile phones, and the result of experimentation, and change the design several times but I thought I would at least ask peoples thoughts on the above before I plough ahead.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Martin</div>
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