[sword-devel] SBL/ETS update / J2ME / Mac

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Manfred,
	Yes, that would make him dance. :)

		-Troy.


Manfred Bergmann wrote:
> Troy,
> 
> sorry I didn't get the time on the evening that I said.
> But I defenitely will have a look this week.
> 
> Just that I understood right.
> What he wants to do is some kind of incremental search means that the 
> textfield fires notifications (or Events) whenever a character is typed 
> and the search is updated right away, right?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Manfred
> 
> 
> 
> Am 21.11.2006 um 20:41 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts:
> 
>> Manfred,
>>     This is great news if you might have something available soon.  I 
>> have
>> no experience with MacSword, or programming for the Mac.  You would be
>> Dr. Winter's hero if you had a standalone app (macsword) working well
>> with Hesychius for his presentation.  Don't stress too much, as he can
>> always require there to be internet access available and use the web
>> tool, but I'm sure it would remove much stress from him if he had
>> something working which didn't require it.  Thanks for your efforts.
>> I'm sorry you've not had success getting your additions to macsword
>> released.
>>
>>     -Troy.
>>
>>
>> Manfred Bergmann wrote:
>>> Hi Troy.
>>>
>>> I don't know if I understood right.
>>> Generally I have the current sources of MacSword and actually I
>>> helped developing it for quite some time but unfortunately these
>>> updates (Universal Binary) never have been released.
>>> Anyway, changing the search mechanism to work the way you described
>>> should be doable (once the index has been build).
>>> I can have a closer look at this in the evening (that's in about 9
>>> hours :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Manfred
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 20.11.2006 um 05:42 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts:
>>>
>>>> DM, that's a nice screenshot.  I think Dr. Winter is mostly interested
>>>> in quick/easy searching in either the body or the key of the
>>>> lexicon.  I
>>>> can rebuild the lexicon as an SWLD4 module, it macsword handles that
>>>> better for searching.  In BibleCS, we have an incremental search-- as
>>>> the user types it focuses the closes match in the center of about 10
>>>> entries of context.  That would be great for him for key lookups,
>>>> but he
>>>> still wants to search entries, as well. (and actually, sometimes the
>>>> keys have multiple words, and his target word might not be first,
>>>> so the
>>>> incremental search won't pull it up.
>>>>
>>>> All this to say, with all the great indexing everyone is doing on our
>>>> data-- whether with sword or else with their own index build-- it
>>>> should
>>>> be possible to do full body search results as an incremental search--
>>>> while the user types, it fills out the results box.  Google "suggest"
>>>> does this on the entire internet :)  We should be able to do it on a
>>>> much smaller domain of data.
>>>>
>>>> But regardless, I'm not a mac programmer, and have no idea how to
>>>> update
>>>> (or even compile; nor do I have access to a mac!) to do any of this
>>>> for
>>>> Bruce.  So, if we can't get even a simple tool for him by Friday, I'll
>>>> probably just say he needs to be sure to have internet access for his
>>>> presentation.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>         -Troy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DM Smith wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 19, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Macintosh Lexicon Support--  The Hesychius lexicon has been
>>>>>> imported as
>>>>>> a sword module into GBS format using, e.g. /A/AD/Adam as the tree
>>>>>> structure for entries.  Dr. Bruce Winter from Tyndale House Research
>>>>>> Library is presenting this coming Friday and would like to use this
>>>>>> data
>>>>>> standalone on his Mac.  I have no idea how well GBS is supported on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Mac, or how easy the interface is for him to use.  Anyone who can
>>>>>> help
>>>>>> with this would really take some pressure off of me!
>>>>> MacSword supports GenBook quite well, but it might not be obvious how
>>>>> it works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is an image of how it looks:
>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/MacSwordGenBook.png
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that there is a "tray" on the right of the window.
>>>>> This is activated by the icon in the upper right of the window.
>>>>> The tray is initially closed when the window comes up.
>>>>>
>>>>> The up and down arrows merely go from one keyed entry to the next.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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