[sword-devel] Flex/AIR

[Nathan Youngman]

I thought I'd bring up a series of 3 articles by Larosa Johnson of  
WORDsearch,
especially since the Sword project came up a few times in the comments:

The Ultimate Bible Software Application
http://blog.trailblazinministries.com/tech-stuff/

Adobe AIR was mentioned for a cross platform solution that could also  
run on the web.
Flex apps like Buzzword and Saffron make it clear to me that a very  
nice application is possible,
across Windows, Macintosh, Linux and with some limitations, the web.

Of course re-implementing the functionality of Sword in ActionScript 3  
would be a lot of work,
and the single-threaded limitation makes it challenging to maintain  
responsiveness while
searching. One the other hand, AS3 is a fairly nice very high-level  
language, and the Flex SDK
is free, so cost need not hinder development.

Just wondering if anyone has considered this before or done any work  
towards this end?


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Nathan Youngman
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