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

Wed Nov 22 14:29:15 MST 2006

Sorry again.

But here are the updates with a functional dictionary search.
I saw the links in the other mail were broken, here again:
http://homepage.mac.com/manfred.bergmann/.public/MacSword-debug.app.zip
http://homepage.mac.com/manfred.bergmann/.public/MacSword- 
release.app.zip

Time for bed now...
Good night

Am 22.11.2006 um 22:11 schrieb Manfred Bergmann:

> 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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