[sword-devel] UI for Windows Question...

[Jason Turner]

On this note, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jason Turner. I've 
been following the Sword project off and on for a while now and just thought 
I would make the move to get involved. I have recently read "Revolution in 
World Missions" by K.P. Yohannan (Pres of Gospel For Asia) and have been 
looking into the work that Voice of the Martyrs and Wycliffe Bible 
Translators have been accomplishing. These things have moved me to want to 
help with God's work. So, I started looking at what I could do.

I think that the work that you guys have done is awesome. The library of books 
available is incredable. However, it seems that the windows userinterface is 
a little dated. I personally prefer Linux and despise Microsoft and 
everything that they stand for, however, most people in the world run windows 
and the Sword project could have it's biggest potential impact in the Windows 
world.

So, to get to my point, I was considering writing a new UI in .NET. However, 
.NET cannot utilize native C++ libraries. It can use Managed C++, C#, ActiveX 
DLL's and native C libraries. Since I cannot use the Sword API as it stands, 
I was considering reimplementing a subset of it in .NET, and then building 
the UI on top of that. Of course releasing the whole thing under the GPL.

So, I'm looking for comments. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Is there 
anything that I have missed? Should I take a closer look at Diatheke or 
ActiveDiatheke? Is someone else already working on a new Windows client?

Thanks.

Jason Turner

On Monday 10 March 2003 09:27 pm, David Trotz wrote:
> No the windows version does not allow this. Certain versions of the bible
> will automatically break the paragraph into seperate lines per verse, but
> other than that the answer is no. Sorry. It may be added someday. David
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Christopher Frazier
>   To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
>   Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:52 PM
>   Subject: [sword-devel] UI for Windows Question...
>
>
>   I've been looking everywhere for this, and since I haven't found the
>   archive to the lists, I guess I have to ask it here:
>
>   How do you view the Bible text one verse per line in Sword for
>   Windows?!?  BibleTime does this in an obvious way, but I cannot figure
>   this out at all in Windows.  Does the program do this at all?
>
>   TIA!
>
>   Chris
>
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