[sword-devel] New Windows SWORD GUI / a design

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Simon,
	I'm really encouraged by your enthusiasm, but would really like for you 
to cooperate in development with us.  I'm not sure if you know this or 
not, but your diagram could have names changes and be the SWORD engine. 
  We have backend 'drivers' that read different file formats, a library 
of 'filters' that convert tags between different markups, and allow the 
engine client to specify which markup they would like, and the necessary 
filters are automatically applied to do the work.

	The only difference, is that we didn't write a 'driver' to read flat 
OSIS files, not because it wouldn't be an easy plugin to the engine, but 
because of a number of other conscious decision defended in an email a 
few weeks back (about half-way down regarding XML +/-):

http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2003-November/019642.html

	We've even planned for some time to use OSIS as an intermediate markup, 
like you describe below (currently, the route is src->dest but would 
like it to be src->OSIS->dest, possibly: we're still hoping to do a 
proof of principle to see the speed impact and repercussions).

	We could sure use your help.  Please consider joining together with us 
in this work.

	In Christ,
		-Troy.

PS.  Blessings on your paper!
PPS. OSIS 1.1.1 docs are available here:
http://bibletechnologieswg.org/osis/docs/

Simon Lagendijk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Currently I'm using MinGW Studio for the 
> programming, MinGW as compiler, and VisualWx for the form designing. 
> It's does not work as well as, let say, Delphi, but its good enough to 
> work with, and its free!
> 
> Development has stopped for this week because I've to write an essay for 
> English class. As subject I choose 'ethics in a computer age', it's 
> about the negative side of the computer age (about wasting time, 
> unwanted temptations (porno), etc, and about how to deal with it). Very 
> nice to see how, even on a non-christian school, lots of people admit 
> the existence of those problems. If someone knows some good texts about 
> this topic, please let me know....
> 
> Next week I hope to have a simplified OSIS reader ready, including a 
> test app (console app). When thats finished, I'm going to work on the 
> TagConversion (conversion of OSIS tags to HTML). When the HTML 
> conversion is working, the GUI will be made (text showing will be done 
> in a wxHTML control, so displaying text won't be to difficult). When 
> that all is working, I'm going to implement the SWORD Engine. My idea is 
> to support multiple 'reading engines', which are all independant from 
> the original code, and all output OSIS, which will be converted to the 
> format needed. Take a look at the attachment for an illustration of that 
> idea.
> 
> PS> I do not want to offend anyone here by not just implementing the 
> Sword Engine at the start, but I want first to have something wich is 
> relatively simple working, and then add the more complex parts.
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
>> Simon,
>>
>> I believe you earlier asked about cross-development compiler tools for
>> Windows development?
>>
>> If I understand your question (and if it was you that asked), there are
>> several alternatives that I am aware of.
>>
>> 1. Al Stevens donated "Quincy" for free usage. It is a relatively 
>> simple ide
>> that utilizes a gnu based compiler/linker back-end. It comes with several
>> editions of his "Teach Yourself C++". The 2002 version comes with 
>> edition 7.
>> It is mostly to facilitate building the sample code in his book.  Kinda
>> cool, but probably only adequate for early prototypes?
>>
>> 2. The Palm interface to the InVerse Scripture memorization freeware used
>> the cgywin command line tools. It also uses gnu based compiler 
>> back-end. For
>> me, I had to struggle to set it up, since I have little or no Linux
>> experience. There may very well be an ide. My impression is that a very
>> similar setup could be used for the development you have proposed, except
>> some of the Palm specific files replaced. (someone else on this list
>> probably is far more aware than I on this)
>>
>> If you are interested and/or still need info, I can hunt around for links
>> and directions.
>>
>> HTH and sharing the reason for the season,
>> http://learningcards.eeworks.org/EeCard01.html
>>
>> Lynn A
>>
>>
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