[sword-devel] MacSword 1.8.1

[David Overcash]

My mac is currently in the shop, but as soon as it comes back I'll go ahead
and install and test for you.  I'm very excited!! This release has certainly
been a long time coming.

-David

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:40 AM, David Trotz <dtrotzjr at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Manfred,
> I can't wait to install this on my mac later today. I will keep you posted
> on my findings. Thanks for putting your time into this, its great to see
> MacSword alive again.
> --
> David
>
>
>
> Manfred Bergmann wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> After half a year of work on the next major release of MacSword I would
>> like to release still an early alpha version to the public.
>> All version numbers lower than 2.0 are considered alpha versions.
>>
>> The following things are implemented and are considered working except
>> many, many minor issues:
>>
>> - workspace host window which enables tabs for all major views (Bible
>> (Combi view), Commentary, Dictionary, Genbook)
>> - single host window which can hold only one view of the above mentioned
>> (tabs can be detached from workspace host and opened in single space host)
>> - combi view that can display bible views in parallel (as many as fit on
>> the screen)
>> - combi view also can host commentaries (and later dictionaries and
>> genbooks)
>> - all views that display module data/text are based on NSTextView instead
>> of WebKit. NSTextView and the text processing system of Cocoa allows much
>> more posibilities for text editing and processing than WebKit. The drawback
>> is that the HTML data has to be converted to something which NSTextView can
>> display (internally) which costs some time. But displaying 4-5 books at a
>> time should be fast enough.
>> - all parallel bible and commentary views in combi view are synchronized.
>> This means that while scrolling a bible or commentary text all other views
>> are synchronizing itself to the currently visible verse. ATM the views are
>> synchronized to the verse displayed at the top line. More functionality is
>> planned for the future here.
>> - HUD preview window which shows cross-refs, refs, notes, strongs (more
>> will come)
>> - indexed search based on Apple's SearchKit
>> - background indexer which automatically indexes all modules types.
>> - in view search through NSTextView's Find panel
>> - automatic application updater based on Sparkle open source Cocoa
>> framework
>> - module installer
>> - bookmarks manager
>> - session saving and loading (though the session is currently saved in
>> /tmp which will be deleted after restart)
>>
>>
>> There are also many, many things missing that will hopefully be
>> implemented next year:
>> - a wizzard for the first run which guides the user to get some modules in
>> - localization
>> - personal commentary editing
>> - improvements on the UI in terms of context menus, images, improving
>> overall ease of use
>> - removing all the rough edges
>> - display options, fonts, colours
>> - search options (range search and such, maybe a wizzard for creating a
>> query statement)
>> - interconnection between the data and all the views
>> - daily devotions
>> - word statistics
>> - timeline view
>>
>>
>> The application will not be made available at SourceForge yet.
>> For everyone interested in testing and giving feedback please have a look
>> at some screenshots or download the application.
>> The application will only work on Mac OSX 10.5.
>> It is possible to use MacSword 1.4 (and below) and MacSword 2 in parallel.
>> None of your data should get lost but backups of your bookmarks and other
>> files would not hurt.
>>
>> Screenshots:
>> http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Bibles.png
>> http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Genbook.png
>> http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/IndexedSearch.png
>>
>> Application:
>> http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/MacSword-1.8.1.app.zip
>>
>>
>> Any help for example for finding appropriate images actually for all parts
>> of the application, finding bugs or giving opinions are very welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manfred
>>
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