[sword-devel] tip about RTF/HTML control

[DM Smith]

Fabrizio Lanza wrote:
>  Hi,
> yes, I was referring to the  Sword gui front-end. But I saw that there 
> are installation files for Linux also. Thus I thought it was not using 
> win32 specific components (riched32.dll, etc.). I did not have a 
> chance to try Sword under Linux. Do you perhaps know how the issue was 
> solved there?
I can give a partial answer:
The C++ Sword API is ported to various platforms (Window, Mac, Linux) 
and this is used on those platforms to create a front end. That is the 
code for each front end is platform specific.

There are some efforts currently underway to use cross platform widgets 
to create a front end. When that is completed, it may be possible to use 
the same frontend code on Win, Mac and Linux.

Each of these frontends may have their own strategy for rendering the 
text to the user.

JSword is a Java implementation of the Sword API and BibleDesktop the 
gui built with it runs on all platforms on which Java runs. This 
implementation does not use RTF at all. Rather it converts the modules 
to OSIS and then that to HTML. The HTML is then displayed by a Java 
widget that can display HTML.
>
>  Kindest regards,
>
>  Fabrizio Lanza
>
> 2006/2/11, L.Allan-pbio <paraclete at bibleinverse.org 
> <mailto:paraclete at bibleinverse.org>>:
>
>     I suppose you are asking about The SWORD Project's gui
>     application, which is
>     BibleCS (also known as "The SWORD Project for Windows" and aka
>     sword.exe).
>     The sword-api (aka the sword engine) is a C++ library with no gui
>     component.
>     BibleCS uses the sword-api to access modules such as Bibles,
>     commentaries,
>     etc. and is a "front-end" to display them (along with searching
>     and other
>     functionality, but that is a quick summary).
>
>     These are my understandings:
>     * BibleCS was developed in Borland C++ Builder 5 (BCB-5),
>     * ongoing development can be done with BCB-6.
>     * BCB provides a wrapper around the Microsoft rtf rich edit
>
>     For the development I've one on a CrossWire front-end, I've been
>     generally
>     satisfied with rtf. However, one issue about choosing RTF is how
>     concerned
>     you are about compatability with Win9x and WinMe. They came with older
>     versions of riched32.dll and riched20.dll, and my experience is
>     that you
>     spend quite a bit of time fussing with the differences. On Win2000 and
>     WinXp, I found the rich-edit control to be very capable and more than
>     acceptable to work with. The headache was Win9x support.
>
>     My 2¢ worth.
>
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