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

[Chris]

Costas I. Stergiou wrote:

>Some months ago I started on a software for personal use that would
>help in bible study. Since my best knowledge is in Java (5 years now)
>I started the implementation with it. Very soon I realized the (obvious)
>fact that Java is NOT for the Desktop. 
>

Why? My full time job is writing Java desktop (gui) software.


>I thought of VB (where I also have
>experience) but I quickly dropped the idea since the code it
>produces is really slow. I ended up with Delphi (since it is really
>easier than C++) and now i have made a first version of a windows
>software for bible study. One of the reasons I didn't go with some
>of the already existing software is because none of these are quite
>good at searching/handling greek text (I am Greek) and none of these
>had a modern Greek translation which is the one most commonly used
>here in Greece. Also personal notes was really important and no sw
>gave real significance to that issue.
>
>I am married with one child, and my responsibilities leave my with
>few time to work on this project. I would be really happy though if
>I could help anyhow with this idea. I have recently put up a site
>with the software which (unfortunately?) is in greek, though I have
>made an english version of the software. If anyone would like to
>check it out here is the link for the english version of the
>software: http://www.theword.gr/bin/theword-en-0.99-full.exe
>
>I would be really happy if I could help out here in any way, either by
>giving the code, some ideas on the platform or anything else I
>could help with. I could also give some ideas about the Java platform
>since it is my everyday work for years now.
>
>Thanks,
>Costas
>(once more, excuse me for my bad english)
>
>
>On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Chris wrote:
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>>Jason Turner wrote:
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>>Personally I'd rather see a Java version than .NET.
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>>>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:
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>>>>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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