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

Manfred Bergmann bergmannmd at yahoo.de
Wed Nov 22 14:11:55 MST 2006 

Sorry folks.

I was a bit to fast.
Unfortunately the search in lexicons doesn't work.
I will have a look at this first but nevertheless someone could test  
the bible book search.


Best regards,
Manfred



Am 21.11.2006 um 21:12 schrieb 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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