[sword-devel] Tech question: a comnmentary by any other name, and season's greetings

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Well, the cheezy way is to just know that all modules of driver type
RawFiles are writable.  The write interface is in the base SWModule
class, but this is the only subclass that implements the interface.  A
better way (for future modules that may support it) would be to check
the return of a write call and see if you get something like
SWModule::NOT_IMPLEMENTED back (I thinks it's -1 right now, but I will
put the define in for you).

Having said that, I don't see any other writable module types on the
near horizon, so you would be safe to use method (a) and just check for:
ModDrv=RawFiles


Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> As far as I know BibleTime supports only one module to store personal comments
> (The normal module called "Personal comments").
> 
> Troy, how can we recognize a writebale module for comments?
> 
> --Joachim
> 
> >I used to be able to do this under windows but I was trying to create premade
> >rpm's for this and I'm not sure if bibletime supports more than one commentary
> >at a time maybe I should ask them.
> >
> >On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> >     TA> Welcome back.
> >     TA>
> >     TA> > I am unsure how to rename the
> >     TA> > personal commentary module to something more specific so that I may download
> >     TA> > more Personal Commentary modules and work on more than one at  a time.
> >     TA>
> >     TA>
> >     TA> It's not much more complicated then just renaming a few files.
> >     TA>
> >     TA> 1) rename the directory for your commentary data, eg.
> >     TA>       cd /usr/share/sword/modules/comments/rawfiles
> >     TA>       mv personal mystuff
> >     TA>
> >     TA> 2) rename your .conf file, eg.
> >     TA>       cd /usr/share/sword/mods.d
> >     TA>       mv personal.conf mystuff.conf
> >     TA>
> >     TA> 3) edit your .conf file to reflect the new directory name and module
> >     TA> name, eg.
> >     TA>       [Personal], to:
> >     TA>       [MyStuff]
> >     TA>
> >     TA>       DataPath=./modules/comments/rawfiles/personal/, to:
> >     TA>       DataPath=./modules/comments/rawfiles/mystuff/
> >     TA>
> >     TA>
> >     TA> 4) reinstall the personal commentary module
> >     TA>
> >     TA> This should do it.  Let me know if you run into troubles.
> >     TA>
> >     TA>       -Troy
> >     TA>
> >     TA>
> >     TA>
> >     TA> > Something tells me that it is a tad  more complicated than a simple "rename
> >     TA> > file" command.  If this has been addressed already and I'm merely flogging a
> >     TA> > dead horse then I apologize but any assistance in this matter will be
> >     TA> > greatly appreciated.
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