[sword-devel] roadmap for Windows frontend(?)

[Chris Little]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Jason Turner wrote:

> I would like to add to this discussion that I think wxWindows is fully
> capable of supporting windows community, which is specifically why I
> chose it over other possibilities for the work that I am doing. The only
> aspect of the current biblecs that could not be done with wxWindows (as
> far as I know) is the moveable toolbar, but that may even be possible.

Have you looked at the BibleCS 2.0 prototype?  
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/sword2.exe
(It should still run, but might not. :)

Do you think it will be possible to create custom desktops like that has?  
We're not just looking to keep the same level of functionality that 
BibleCS now has, but would like to supply new features that the current 
interface makes difficult, and a lot of people have commented that they 
like the BibleCS 2.0 approach.

> The HTML rendering of wxWindows is good, but not great. I am currently using 
> wxHTML for render texts.

"not great" isn't very encouraging. :)  There aren't currently any HTML 
renderers that I would really call great, since most of them really blow 
it on standards compliance for certain features that would be very useful 
to us.  But I feel like Gecko/Mozilla is the most likely to address these 
issues in a useful (and cross-platform) way (despite the fact that <ruby> 
support, and fully XHTML compliance along with it, appear quite dead: 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33339 ).  wxMozilla might be a 
good way to improve over wxHTML, but I don't know how the two differ.

--Chris