[sword-devel] .net bindings (was: Introduction)

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys.  We have bindings for a number of other languages.  It's not a 
terrible tedious process to produce such.  A set of ActiveX controls (or 
whatever M$ is calling them these days) would probably be a weeks worth 
of work.  We have a flatapi to help facilitate creation of such 
bindings, though some bindings can use the C++ API directly.  See: 
sword/bindings in source package.

	-Troy.



N. Trevor Brierly wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	This is to introduce myself briefly.  I'm Trevor Brierly, from the Northern
> Virginia area.  I've been a Java developer for the past 1 and a half years,
> with 4 years of experience before that in ASP, Visual Basic, etc., all of it
> primarily in web development or tools development.
> 
> 	I'm interested in the SWORD Project primarily because I've been very
> frustrated trying to use the commercial software for Windows that currently
> exists for Bible study.  (NavPress WORDSearch, Logos, etc.)  The interfaces
> are miserable to work with, and as a developer the thought naturally occured
> that I could probably design something better myself.  Some cold water was
> thrown on that idea when I did some investigation into the STEP format and
> found that it was a binary format based on RTF which is miserable to work
> with.  The thought then occurred to me that it would make more sense to use
> XML to encode texts of the Bible and related study works.  Further
> investigation led me to Bible Technology Group  (conveniently located about
> 3 miles away from me in Chantilly, VA!) and their OSIS format.  I had some
> interesting conversations with Mike Perez and Steve DeRose from the ABS
> there, and with Troy who was visiting.
> 
> 	I'm most interested in working on the Windows interface for SWORD.  2 or 3
> months ago I think it was that I spoke to Troy about this, and he indicated
> that at that time there was no one really working on it.  Is this still the
> case?  I'm very interested of course in getting in contact with anyone else
> who is (or was) working on the Windows interface.
> 
> 	Also, the "SWORD Project for Windows" page
> (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/index.jsp) is currently
> spewing ServletExceptions.  Who would I speak to about this?
> 
> Thank you for listening!
> grace and peace,
> Trevor Brierly
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "...the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according
> to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be
> moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis:
> ...We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory,
> we thank you for the greatness of your splendour."           J.R.R. Tolkien
> 
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