[sword-devel] LcdBible 0.95a beta for Win95 and 640*480 monitors

[Lynn Allan]

[sword-devel] LcdBible 0.93g 'Release Candidate' availableThere is YALR
(YetAother LcdBible Release) ver 0.95a at:
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lcdbible/LcdBibleSetup.exe
or
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lcdbible/LcdBibleSetup.exe?download

LcdBible has gone "backwards" from earlier labels of being a "Release
Candidate" to a reversion to the "Beta" label. In some aspects, this version
has some "back to the drawing board" modifications to support truly ancient
computers with Win95 + i-386 + 640*480 monitors. (Previously, LcdBible
assumed at least Win98-SE + Pentium 233 + 800*600 resolution.)

There were several beta testers with Win95 installed on 386/486 laptops, and
LcdBible "almost" worked. Also, it seemed to have better-than-expected
launch and search performance on these dinosaurs. Hence the modifications.
LcdBible used to be targetted for computers that churches gave away as
obsolete. Now it may be usable on computers so old that the recipients of
those computers are about to give them away as unusable, but LcdBible works
ok.

The changes from 0.93h:
* Switch from CDialog to hybrid S.D.I. Doc/View
* Resizable to be usable as small as 450 * 350 (barely), decent at 640*480,
and as large as 1100 * 900 with marginally adequate "layout manager" to
maintain placement/orientation of controls.
* "Remembers" placement and width/height when restarting
* Compatible with Win95-osr1 (fat-16) without mfc42.dll
* Mostly replaced "clunky" R-M-B SysMenu for setting options with a simple
"Options ..." dialog
* Installer uses Win95 version by default  (rather than multiple .exe's for
static and dynamic linking to mfc42)
* Download size increases from <400kb to >500kb, including WEB-NT and nsis
installer.  OT should definitely fit within 1.44 meg "budget" for download
size of self-contained LcdBibleSetup.exe
* Uninstaller improved

Feedback appreciated, especially problems/suggestions/"Biblical rebukes for
iron sharpens iron" (prefer offline to not clutter up this list more that is
already the case)

* "Road-map" of envisioned enhancements
- Implement Context sensitive help
- Write tutorial
- Old Testament integrated
- Detects availablility of KJV and/or BBE and enables option to switch
versions
- Internationalization for Spanish, French, German, Polish, etc., including
"Options ..." dialog wordage
- Integrate InVerse Scripture memorization freeware
- Modeless search options dialog
- "Smart packager" webpage
- Direct "Go-To" from found verses to Biblical text
- Use RichText or HTML viewer rather than multiline CEdit
- Integrate simple "Dictionary" capability

Lynn A.
l.allan@att.net