[sword-devel] wxWindows Sword Viewer

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

The screenshot looks cool and I love the distribution ideas.

by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Turner" <jason@whensdinner.com>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:01 AM
Subject: [sword-devel] wxWindows Sword Viewer


> Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on the status of the wxWindows sword
> viewer that I have been working on.
>
> The project is hosted on sourceforge at
> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/christiangame
>
> It can be got by cvs with:
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/christiangame login
>  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/christiangame
co
> biblestudy-current
>
> I'm using an old project of mine that never went anywhere, that is why the
> project name is "christiangame".
>
> The look and feel that I was aiming for was that of a web browser,
allowing
> for multiple windows, and multiple tabs within each window. The only
> difference being that I am allowing each window to be split into up to
four
> frames, each containing tabs. I have all of the main functionality for
tabs
> working including detaching tabs, adding, deleting and duplicating.
>
> A screen shot is available here (gtk2):
>
> http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/christiangame/biblestudy1.jpg
>
> The goal that I stated earlier was to make a windows version nice enough
that
> it might even encourage a non-christian to read the bible. I'm adding to
that
> the goal of making 3 seperate ISO images one in the ~50MB credit-card
size,
> (if you haven't seen credit card cd's, here is some info:
> http://www.memorex.com/products/category_display.php?cid=10) one in the
> ~210MB 8CM size and a ~700MB full size. Each with selected modules
installed
> that can be run directly from CD. With the goal being that CD's can be
used
> as witnessing tools and distributed freely, perhaps even one day put
beside
> the AOL cd's at your local gocery store.
>
> The goal of using them as witnessing tools leads me to the next goal of
having
> some way to provide the user with a "Bible Study" a selection of verses
with
> associated comments that can be used to guide the user through some
verses.
> Specifically I see this being used in the "run from cd" mode to lead the
> recepient of the CD through verses on salvation. Perhaps ending with
> "1-800-NEED-HIM" or some similar resource.
>
> What needs to be done?
>
> I'm horrible at making icons and to give this a polished look there will
be a
> need for some good ones. Currently it is only tested on GCC-Linux-GTK2,
and
> needs to look good on Windows. None of the "Bible Study" functionality has
> been started. Code is as yet undocumented :). Only VerseKey and
> Module->SetKey() based lookups work right now, so general books cannot be
> read at all and daily devotionals are kind of a kludge, knowing that you
have
> to enter, i.e. "01.25". Personally, with the vision that I have in mind I
see
> appearance as a bigger concern than the technical features, so
automatically
> looking up strongs references, for example, would come later.
>
> Anyhow, I'll stop rambling now.
>
> I have a real desire to see this completed and will be spending a lot of
time
> on it, anyone who is interested please join in. I suggest that any
> development discussion about this new project take place on sourceforge.
I'll
> set up a mailing list if need be.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Turner
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