[sword-devel] HTML-based Windows Front End?

[Greg Hellings]

I don't want to be tied to a single IDE and layout program. Also, I have 
been informed that there are a few features of BibleCS that are less than 
ideal. I realize that no program is ideal, but if one were to start over, 
then these flaws could be fixed. Work ages with perfection, does it not? 
Perhaps it is time that the Windows client for Sword return in a second 
manifestation.

--Greg

On 6/17/05, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> Why are you planning to start from scratch rather than adding HTML
> rendering to BibleCS? (out of curiosity)
> 
> Greg Hellings wrote:
> > Yes, the need is pretty glaring. Is the support there? If someone
> > (i.e. myself?) were to begin work, would help be forthcoming?
> > Presumably Bibletime would be possible in Windows with the recent
> > release of free Qt for Windows, but would a native UI achievable with wx
> > be desireable?
> >
> > On 6/16/05, *DM Smith* <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
> > <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> > See http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BCS-24. Troy mentions that
> > "yep, we need to switch to an HTML renderer" for BibleCS.
> >
> > Greg Hellings wrote:
> >
> >> Fellow Sword-bearers,
> >> Would there be any interest amongst the Sword developer's
> >> community to develop a new front end for Sword that would be based
> >> off of HTML display rather than the current one with its
> >> RTF-base? I realize that there already is BibleStudy to
> >> supplement BibleCS, but the current 1.0 release of BibleStudy is a
> >> bit dated. When I did a check-out from CVS for it, it would not
> >> compile against the newest versions of the Sword library. What I
> >> am thinking of would be a complete rewrite, hopefully using the
> >> wxWidgets, as BibleStudy aimed for. I have been experimenting
> >> recently with wxMozilla, which is a wrapper for Gecko within
> >> wxWidgets which makes the Gecko engine surprisingly simple to
> >> use. I would like to start development on a new client some time
> >> in the next few weeks and have a first pass at it out by the end
> >> of August, hopefully.
> >>
> >> Is there other support for this within the community? I noticed
> >> in the ancient archives of the Sword developers, someone had
> >> proposed this idea, but it seems to have died off fairly rapidly.
> >> Let me hear some feedback!
> >>
> >> --Greg
> >>
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