[sword-devel] ncurses front end

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I have put a statically linked version here:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/r/raholcom/www/zebra/zebra.gz

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
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> > I would like to ask a second time if there is any interest
> > in an ncurses based front end to sword.
> 
> I'm interested.  I think it would be really cool!  I can't seem to get
> it to work on my machine though.  It won't compile, I think, due to my
> curses version.  What do I need to compile the program?
> 
> When I installed the rpm, it core dumps-- I'm thinking due to a mismatch
> of libsword.so versions.  Could you build a statically linked version?
> 
> 	Thanks!!!
> 		-Troy.
> 
> > 
> > I have put together  a rough  but functioning (barely) ncurses
> > based interface to sword.
> > 
> > I have rather arbitrily started calling it zebra.  I looked closely
> > at cheatah in throwing this together, but this is text only (black and white)
> > so zebra seemed reasonable.
> > 
> > What are the advantages of a program like zebra.
> > 
> > Sometimes you  only have a text based connection to a machine on which
> > you can install software (telnet).
> > 
> > some machines may have very limited graphical capabilities.
> > (hand held devices, although I don't know that sword runs on any
> > such devices yet.)
> > 
> > Interfacing to other programs such as text editors or scripts.
> > 
> > It can be called on the commandline, or interact through
> > standard io.  This means that it interfaces well with other programs.
> > 
> > simply typing :  zebra
> > 
> > gets me the ncurses interface.
> > 
> > I can type :  zebra -c l James1:1
> > 
> > and I get:
> > 
> >  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
> > 
> > alternatively,
> > I can type: echo "l James1:1"|zebra -f
> > to get the same results.
> > 
> > In particular I have written an emacs mode.  This means that you
> > can easily insert biblical reference while writing a file.
> > 
> > When I have sword,zebra, and my emacs mode loaded, then while I am
> > editing in an emacs buffer, I can type cntrl C, l, and then type
> > James1:1, and get the verse in my emacs buffer.
> > 
> > Similarly you can do searches, read commentaries , write personal commentaries
> > (I haven't tested writing to personal commentary yet.)
> > 
> > If I decided that I needed to do a regular expression search, even
> > though regular expresion searching isn't implemented yet, I can copy
> > the entire bible to a buffer: cntrl C l, then gen1:1-Rev22:21
> > I then have my editor do the regular expression search.
> > 
> > The point is that the added flexibility of such an interface permits
> > the use of many other independently developed tools with the interface.
> > 
> > anyway if you run linux you can try it at:
> > 
> > http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/r/raholcom/www/zebra/index.html
> > where there are srpm,rpm, and tgz format install files available
> > 
> > -------------------------
> > 
> > There is much work that should be done to this code.
> > 
> > example:
> > 
> > Can someone explain why, if I declare and construct a VerseKey *vk
> > and then do :
> > 
> > VerseKey copykey=vk->clone();
> > 
> > or even
> > 
> > VerseKey copykey=vk;
> > 
> > All the information from vk is copied to copykey, except that chapter
> > and verse are set to 1.  The Book number, and everything else gets copied
> > to copykey.
> > So right now I have in my code, the very ugly:
> > 
> > VerseKey copykey=vk->clone();
> > copykey.Chapter(vk->Chapter());
> > copykey.Verse(vk->Verse());
> > 
> > --------------------
> > completely unrelated to anything else in this email:
> > 
> > Is there any interest or effort in having sword compile for other machines?
> > It sounded like there was interest in palm, but what about other
> > operating systems like : mac os, bsd, solaris...
> > 
> > Richard Holcombe
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