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<DIV>David,</DIV>
<DIV>I am with you 100%! If I can't get to a verse or do a search within 5
secs. </DIV>
<DIV>I'd almost rather use my "snail bible" or wait until I can study at home
with</DIV>
<DIV>BibleCS or other system. Advancements in miniaturization have
always</DIV>
<DIV>come with new technology and hardly ever by just porting software down
to</DIV>
<DIV>the smaller machine. If there is one thing that we should keep, it is
the</DIV>
<DIV>common library of modules. Since disk space is not really an issue I
feel</DIV>
<DIV>we should go with something like lucene for the search and get
rid of as</DIV>
<DIV>much HTML as possible for smooth scrolling. Worst case we could</DIV>
<DIV>create a utility "mod2pda.exe" to convert to the optimum PDA data
structure for</DIV>
<DIV>these small devices and run it on installation of the mods. As far as the
scrollbars</DIV>
<DIV>go, remember that many devices have physical wheel that can be used to
scroll.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In His Grace,</DIV>
<DIV>Robin</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>David Trotz Jr. wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>>The more I use SwordReader, and the more I learn about the poor HTML
<BR>>support in WindowsCE the more I want to write my own text viewer widget.
<BR>>Notice I specified text viewer and not HTML viewer, we don't necessarily
<BR>>need HTML support except for a few embedded tags in the text (which
<BR>>might be tricky to deal with), we just need something that can<BR>>A)
Display verses, and verse numbers.<BR>>B) Handle color such as red
letters<BR>>C) Handle hyperlinks such as strongs numbers<BR>>D) Scroll
fluidly.<BR>>I am not sure if you have ever used Bible+ on the Palm but they
have a <BR>>nice fluid text display, and the scrolling feature in that reader
is <BR>>amazing. I have played with OliveTree's bible and I am convinced they
<BR>>wrote their own viewer as well. There is not other way I can think of
<BR>>that they get the performance they do and the functionality they have.
<BR>>The speed of the display would be nearly instantaneous, no matter what
<BR>>the version is being displayed. Some tricky issues would be hyperlinks,
<BR>>but I am sure I can handle these as well.<BR>>I will play with this
some this week and post my initial results. I will <BR>>develop the viewer
independently of SwordReader and once it gets to a <BR>>place that it can
fully perform everything the current viewer can. We <BR>>can decide if we
want to integrate it into SwordReader. By the way, my <BR>>viewer probably
won't have scrollbars (like Bible+) This will save <BR>>screen real estate
but still provide the same functionality just in a <BR>>different
way.<BR>>What do you think?<BR><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
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