[sword-devel] BibleCS 1.5.6rc2 + utils

[Adrian Korten]

Good day,

Mixed results! The new sword beta was able to read the Thai encyphered 
texts and display them properly. I was even able to do a triple parallel 
with two Thai versions and the RSV.

After compiling one the Thai versions with the new vpl2mod and mod2zmod, 
the sword beta had some problems. The 1.5.5 version does not have the 
same problem. The updated module was copied over and the beta program 
started. It displayed the splash screen and then did a lot of disk 
reading and eventually an error message appeared. "Access Violation at 
address 0058IEBD in module 'sword-beta.exe'. Read of address 0FFFFE32. 
[Okay]" I tried this a few times and once WinXP reported that the 
Virtual Memory is Too Low. But the last time I tried it, it started 
normally and displayed the updated module as well as the older modules.

Small second item, 'vpl2mod.exe' does not recognize the characters 0xEF 
0xBB 0xBF at the beginning of the UTF-8 file. If I convert the file 
using a combination of Windows Thai and UltraEdit, these characters are 
not placed there. If I use SIL's TecKit, it places them there to 
indicate that the file is UTF-8 encoded.

Adrian


Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>     Latest Windows Frontend and Win32 command line utilities are ready 
> for testing and these are hopefully the final release candidates.
> 
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ALPHAcckswwlkrfre22034820285912/alpha/sword.exe 
> 
> ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32
> 
>     Changes:
>         Added popup box on parallel tab if no Bible's are selected-- 
> thanks David Trotz, Jr.!
> 
>         Whitespace is handled a little different, so hopefully we made 
> things better instead of worse.
> 
>         Hopefully fixed the enchiper bugs.  Old enciphered modules seem 
> to have extra space at the end of each entry.  This problem has been 
> fixed in this version of the software, but previously enciphered modules 
> will probably show up to 4 junk characters after each entry.  Try the 
> new mod2zmod utility to create a compressed/enciphered text without this 
> problem.
> 
>         Changes to the API to allow compiling on the Opteron 64-bit 
> CPU.  One strange bug still exists with verse parsing in the book of 
> Malichi. Hope to work this out before releasing the final source code.  
> Speed tests confirm that this CPU will truely rock Intel's world.
> 
>     Lot's of 'hopefully's in there, so your testing is most appreciated. 
> Would like to try to get release done and CD's out soon.
> 
>     -Troy.
> 
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