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Greg,<br>
If the architecture of a non-trivial program is sound, I find that
it is easier to improve something than to start all over from scratch.
If there are only a few features of BibleCS that are less than ideal,
then it probably should be much easier to fix those than to start all
over.<br>
I imagine that when BibleCS developers looks at rendering HTML that
they will evaluate the different possibilities (much as we are for
BibleDesktop/JSword) of available HTML renderers. It is quite possible
that Qt will be evaluated. They may find (as we are with BD) that the
best choice requires significant rewrite. <br>
If you are capable of writing a system from scratch, I think that
you would be of greater help to improve one of the existing projects.
Try taking BibleCS and drop in an HTML renderer where the RTF renderer
is today. Preserve the existing behavior of intra-application cross
references, dictionary lookups and informational popups. You can get
the source via SVN and
modify it to your hearts content.<br>
If all you are wanting is an HTML rendering, BibleDesktop already
does that. So do other Sword derivatives (e.g. web apps). If you are
looking for a cross-platform application, BibleDesktop is that. If you
want to code in C++ for Windows, then BibleCS is where it's at. If you
want to program using Qt, try BibleTime (perhaps port it to Windows).
And if you want to program in Gnome for Linux or on the Mac, there are
projects for that.<br>
Each of these projects want committed developers to join them.
Please help.<br>
Thanks,<br>
DM<br>
<br>
<br>
Greg Hellings wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid75a952c005062018103643c352@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I don't want to be tied to a single IDE and layout
program. Also,
I have been informed that there are a few features of BibleCS that are
less than ideal. I realize that no program is ideal, but if one
were to start over, then these flaws could be fixed. Work ages
with perfection, does it not? Perhaps it is time that the Windows
client for Sword return in a second manifestation.<br>
<br>
--Greg<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/17/05, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Chris Little</b> <<a
href="mailto:chrislit@crosswire.org">chrislit@crosswire.org</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why
are you planning to start from scratch rather than adding HTML<br>
rendering to BibleCS? (out of curiosity)<br>
<br>
Greg Hellings wrote:<br>
> Yes, the need is pretty glaring. Is the support there? If someone<br>
> (
i.e. myself?) were to begin work, would help be forthcoming?<br>
> Presumably Bibletime would be possible in Windows with the recent<br>
> release of free Qt for Windows, but would a native UI achievable
with wx<br>
> be desireable?
<br>
><br>
> On 6/16/05, *DM Smith* <<a href="mailto:dmsmith555@yahoo.com">dmsmith555@yahoo.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dmsmith555@yahoo.com">dmsmith555@yahoo.com</a>>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> See <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BCS-24">http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BCS-24</a>.
Troy mentions that<br>
> "yep, we need to switch to an HTML renderer" for BibleCS.<br>
><br>
> Greg Hellings wrote:
<br>
><br>
>> Fellow Sword-bearers,<br>
>> Would there be any interest amongst the Sword developer's<br>
>> community to develop a new front end for Sword that would
be based<br>
>> off of HTML display rather than the current one with its
<br>
>> RTF-base? I realize that there already is BibleStudy to<br>
>> supplement BibleCS, but the current 1.0 release of
BibleStudy is a<br>
>> bit dated. When I did a check-out from CVS for it, it
would not
<br>
>> compile against the newest versions of the Sword
library. What I<br>
>> am thinking of would be a complete rewrite, hopefully
using the<br>
>> wxWidgets, as BibleStudy aimed for. I have been
experimenting
<br>
>> recently with wxMozilla, which is a wrapper for Gecko
within<br>
>> wxWidgets which makes the Gecko engine surprisingly simple
to<br>
>> use. I would like to start development on a new client
some time
<br>
>> in the next few weeks and have a first pass at it out by
the end<br>
>> of August, hopefully.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there other support for this within the community? I
noticed<br>
>> in the ancient archives of the Sword developers, someone
had
<br>
>> proposed this idea, but it seems to have died off fairly
rapidly.<br>
>> Let me hear some feedback!<br>
>><br>
>> --Greg<br>
>><br>
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