[sword-devel] ncurses front end
Troy A. Griffitts
sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:03:14 -0700
Went to update my ncurses version with webfind and notices zebra in the
list of RPMs I could download. I was excited for a second, but then
read the description:
"Zebra is a free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocol.
It takes multi-server and multi-thread approach to resolve the current
complexity of the Internet. Zebra supports RIPv1, RIPv2 and BGP-4 and
will support OSPFv2. Zebra works as Route Server and Route
Reflector. IPv6 is also supported, so zebra can speak BGP4+ and RIPng."
In any case, got ncurses-5.0-11 and things compiled just fine. Looks
like a good start. I was able to change modules and search (though I
believe it only took the first word that I typed). I wasn't able to
figure out how to select any of the search results, though. Lookup of
'jn 3:16' seems to take me to the book of John but the screen didn't
refresh until after I tried + or - after the lookup.
Looking in the code, it seems that you even have support for saving
personal commentary. That's cool.
I wonder if the old dos-based OLB software might be a good interface
reference. I remember getting pretty good at moving around in that
software.
I'm excited to see what others think and where this goes! Thank you for
contributing your time and talents!
-Troy.
raholcom@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:
>
> It definitely won't compile with version 4 of curses. I have both
> ncurses-devel-5.0-11
> ncurses-5.0-11
>
> installed.
> I'll try to build a statically linked version soon.
>
> 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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