[sword-devel] Successful windows CE sword.dll

[danblake]

No problem at all, It's just something on my wish list.  Thanks for 
explaining some of the problems involved.  I am very interested in the CE 
development for my Pocket PC 2002.

Thank you so much for making this happen.

Daniel Blake



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From: "Johan Gorter" <j.gorter@student.utwente.nl>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:13:34 +0200
Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Successful windows CE sword.dll

> Hello Daniel,
> 
> I am not exactly sure how an ActiveX DLL works, but as I understand 
> it, it requires every class to have a COM-interface as well as some other
> added functionality. This would, I think, require that all objects, that
> the user of the .dll can interact with, to have this functionality. 
> If this is the case, then all objects would need to be rewritten to use
> 'reference counting' and stuff.
> 
> I am also not sure if you can develop in VB for windows CE. Windows 
> CE is what I am focussing on right now.
> 
> I am sorry I cannot be of more help,
> 
> Johan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org
> [mailto:sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Blake
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 04:10
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Successful windows CE sword.dll
> 
> Could you also build an ActiveX DLL so VBers could make frontends for
> windows desktops?  I don't know how.
> 
> Daniel Blake
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johan Gorter" <j.gorter@student.utwente.nl>
> To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:54 PM
> Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Successful windows CE sword.dll
> 
> > Hello Joachim,
> >
> > I'm not sure if a diff output would be very handy. For the src and
> > include directories that would work, but I also added some files to
> > make windows CE more 'unix' compatible. (in the apps/wince directory).
> 
> > I zipped all my files and tried to configure them to be easily put
> > back into CVS. Of course I cannot do this myself. If you download the
> > following file, you can unzip it and cvs from the swordCVE directory.
> > Here you should easily see the changes I made and the files I added.
> >
> > http://ozy.student.utwente.nl/~drsoong/IpaqProgs.zip
> >
> > If you unzip this file on windows in a c:\IpaqProgs directory, you
> > should be able to compile the dll (and the interface) yourself.
> >
> > What I meant with the last question is how to share the modified files
> 
> > so anyone could compile the dll. Well, now he can download the file
> > above, or check out from CVS after it has been inserted.
> >
> > The current application I had in mind as a frontend is just a simple
> > bible reader. As soon as I have a functioning version I might make a
> > SF project out of it, or leave this up to you-guys.
> >
> > Well, I hope the windows ce port will be useful and if there are
> > questions regarding the sources, do not hesitate to ask.
> >
> > In Him,
> >
> > Johan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org
> > [mailto:sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Ansorg
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 22:02
> > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Successful windows CE sword.dll
> >
> >
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> > Hi,
> > these are great news! Windows CE is one of the plattforms many users
> > want to Sword on.
> > Great you got it working!
> >
> > > I had to make some small changes to some of the sword-files, but
> > > nothing that should cause problems with other platforms.
> >
> > I'd suggest to share the edited code sections with us on the list so
> > we can put it into CVS so it's in the next official Sword release.
> > If possible send it as output of the diff command, but I gues that's
> not
> >
> > possible on Windows. In this case just post what sections you changed
> > to what code.
> >
> > > So, how can I share the files I created, so any developper can use
> > > them in windows CE applications?
> >
> > Do you mean the code files to work on the CE program? Or something
> > else? If you want to work on a CE frontend using SourceForge (sf.net)
> > is a good solution. Others may joing this way to help you, too.
> >
> > Thank you for your great efforts!
> >
> > In Him!
> > Joachim
> > - --
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