[sword-devel] Map Compatibility Suggestions

[Greg Hellings]

Why do you recommend they use unsupported and known incomplete software
instead of Xiphos or BibleTime, both of which have Windows releases?

--Greg

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing a little more probing, BPBible Portable handled it well, but they
> display in different widgets since I built my maps with imp2ld rather than
> imp2gbs.
>
> I'll probably rebuild using imp2gbs for uniformity.
>
> I know BP isn't maintained. I still recommend it to the Windows users that
> aren't computer savvy. BPBPortable should work for that purpose.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 1:26 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03/15/2017 03:03 PM, Matt Zabojnik wrote:
>>
>> None of the maps work in BP, all worked in Xiphos & AndBible during my
>> tests.
>>
>> I'm thinking it's a front end issue of some kind.
>>
>>
>> All Xiphos does is request content from the engine with
>> module.renderText() and paste the result into the HTML widget.
>>
>> Er, well...  Adjust that: Pre-pasting, Xiphos analyzes received content
>> for images in order to impose image resizing if necessary. But that only
>> adds width/height specifications without altering the image reference
>> itself.
>>
>> Hmm... Just now gdb'ing Xiphos and watching it get image-including
>> headers from my NET module, the content returned from renderText() on the
>> heading entry attribute looks like this:
>>
>> Original content as it appears in module:
>> <img src="/images/netbible.jpg"/>
>>
>> As rendered:
>> <img src="file:/home/karl/.sword/modules/texts/rawtext/net//
>> images/netbible.jpg" border=0 />
>>
>> Note the double '/'. This says that there should be no difference, as to
>> whether you include the leading '/' or not.
>>
>> I can't say how any of the other frontends deal with images.
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