[sword-devel] Fwd: Bishop feature proposals

[Alex DuBois]

On 05/12/18 22:58, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Have you had any success compiling Bishop?  What operating system do you 
> use for development?

Hi Troy, I haven't started any work on this yet. I wanted to get 
feedback before I started poking around Bishop's code. I almost always 
use Linux for development.

> display "Modes". The current mode, which can display up to 3 Bibles in 
> parallel, I've kept the default and named "Bible".  I've added 2 new 
> display modes: Language Assist and Commentary Assist.  Both of these are 
> split screen modes which show the primary Bible text on the left and as 
> you scroll it populates the right with the chosen tool. Language Assist 
> places the Word Study tool on the right. Commentary Assist places the 
> Commentary tool on the right.  These are the same tools as on the Verse 
> Study screen, but just pull forward to the mail screen, split to the 
> right side.  I wanted to make the scroll on the Word Study tool 
> highlight the current word as you scrolled, in the same way the current 
> verse hightlights as you scroll the Bible view.  This way, when there is 
> a word I need help with, I can scroll the right side quickly until that 
> word is highlighted in the verse and then I'll know that word is in view 
> with it's definition on the right.

This sounds interesting, and I'd like to try it out. I suppose this is 
what's in your latest release to the Play Store?

> Well, I finished the split screen view and the 3 modes, but it just 
> seems a little too small in the emulator screen.  The Strong's 
> definitions we use have a bunch of extraneous information (like "See 
> XXXXX; See YYYYY+ZZZZZ). Which I don't think anyone ever uses.  We don't 
> provide nice links for these texts, though we should.  I am sure the 
> would be used more if we did.  But for now, I was thinking of trying to 
> hide that info.  It might make the tool more usable in the smaller split 
> screen on the right.

I agree. maybe you can make it an option under settings to hide them?

> press difficulties.  Maybe your swipe left idea might be cool to bring 
> up the Word Study tool instead of splitting the screen.  That would make 
> it easier to switch between the two.

I'll see what I can come up with. It might take a little while though 
since I'm totally unfamiliar with Cordova.

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Thanks,
Alex