[sword-devel] New development on Mac

[Manfred Bergmann]

Am 09.09.2007 um 01:35 schrieb Michael Zappe:

> In thinking, pretty far.  In implementing, not quite so far.
>
> My dream is to have a nice Mac application which would handle
> interlinear/parallel display, and have some parsing functionality to
> help with original language study.  (I'm a big fan of Greek and
> Hebrew.)

MacSword did that although the strong numbers were integrated between  
the text and made reading quite difficult.
I thought about a small floating window/panel that shows footnotes/ 
strongs/any other things that the text is tagged with a bit like  
GnomeSword or Accordance does it.

> A lot of what I've played with is in indexing the back end,
> so that users could find stems, etc. in the Greek text.
> Unfortunately I never quite got to a level where anything was  
> cohesive.

The search engine of MacSword did that quite well I think. The  
Hesychius GenBook or strong lexicons were searchable.

> Note taking is also big with me.

Yep. Not only notes, also commentaries and genbooks.

>
> I also started playing with integrating the SWORD library with the
> Cocoa text system.  The text system in Cocoa is very nice, and it
> would be nice to be able to use it natively using the attribute
> system to reference back into the database.

The Cocoa text system is strong, right.
But I think I did not fully understand what you have in mind.
I would like to see text rendering much easier than in MacSword. No  
tables, no css.
Simple but effective. Using WebKit, words that are tagged in some way  
throw events when the mouse curser moves over them (like links).
Using Cocoa text system the mouse possition would need to be tracked  
to have the same functionality.

> Spotlight integration would also /rock/.

We will have Spotlight integration. We have SearchKit indexing  
already. We just need to create a Spotlight plugin.
I think this is not that difficult.


Regards,
Manfred



>
> 	Mike
>
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike.
>>
>> How far have you been in thinking about a new application?
>>
>>
>> Manfred
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 08.09.2007 um 20:21 schrieb Michael Zappe:
>>
>>> I'm a programmer, I know Cocoa decently well, and was thinking of
>>> doing something similar myself.  I'm strapped for time, but I'd love
>>> to help in any way I can given that constraint.
>>>
>>> 	Mike
>>>
>>> On Sep 8, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> I want to starting a new frontend on the Mac platform and would  
>>>> like
>>>> to invite everyone who is willing to help.
>>>>  From UI developers to icon designers everyone is welcome to
>>>> participate.
>>>> Please write to my email address if you are interested.
>>>>
>>>> The MacSword application has gotten quite old by the time. It still
>>>> has Jaguar support which is fine but now that Leopard is coming,  
>>>> the
>>>> time is right to start something new with new features and new
>>>> technologies.
>>>>
>>>> Some things like the Sword backend and the SearchKit search/ 
>>>> indexing
>>>> stuff can be taken from MacSword.
>>>> The backend has been cleaned up to make it KVO kompliant.
>>>> Additionally a new backend wrapper to Sword InstallMgr has been
>>>> created and is working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Manfred
>>>>
>>>>
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