[wxsword-devel] Sorry for the delay

[Greg Hellings]

Yes, I have had excellent success with wxWidgets - it's the fact that I'm 
using the wxMozilla library as my HTML display widget that's holding me up. 
I have it down to requiring xpcom and nspr, from Mozilla, within its 
pkg-config path. Now all that remains is to convince mozilla to compile 
under MinGW. Unfortunately it is designed to compile under Cygwin, but still 
build a native Windows executable. I haven't yet tried to compile Mozilla 
under MinGW other than to untar it and discover that it wants Cygwin. So 
I'll be working on that. Once that is overcome, everything should be smooth 
sailing from there on in the realm of preparation.

Then, of course, comes the fun part of testing the work I have, so far, 
done. We'll see :). I'm also looking into that Visual C++ Express as you 
indicated - it looks like a possibility! Thanks.

--Greg


On 8/2/05, Jason Turner <lefticus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I generally have very good success compiling wxWidgets with MinGW, as
> well has Biblestudy.
> 
> If you do want to stick with Visual C++, I suggest you try looking at
> the express editions of visual studio,
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ . I'm not yet sure if it will
> work for compiling wx and sword.
> 
> Mozilla will be able to render the RtoL text for you with no
> difficulty whatsoever, you need to first query sword to see if it is a
> RtoL text. If it is, then you need to set
> <div dir="rtl"></div> around the appropriate text.
> 
> RtoL is currently the biggest remaining issue with Biblestudy, wxHTML
> does not support it and trying to format it up by hand has proven to
> be quite difficult.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> On 7/31/05, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to email this list last week - but alas, the server was down
> > according to Troy.
> >
> > I have created a tarball of the latest version of wxSword on 
> SourceForge.
> > I was trying for the past two weeks to get a build going under Windows,
> > however I am not, alas, a Windows programmer. I tried taking the route 
> of
> > MinGW and was nearly successful. I plan to return to that soon.
> >
> > With the latest CVS version of wxMozilla I was able to achieve proper
> > display of UTF-8 non-Latin characters (Hebrew appears to be displaying
> > backwards, but I'm not a Hebrew expert, so I'm not certain of that) and
> > there is support for all of the types of books that Sword supports. 
> There
> > are still no bells and whistles because I was busy slaving away on 
> trying to
> > get the Windows build. One problem is that I have never been successful
> > with building a wxWidgets program under my version of VC++ 6.0, which is 
> an
> > archaic version, and I believe that wxWidgets properly requires a
> > significantly newer version of the compiler. However, the examples that
> > come with wxWidgets will build, so I must just be missing something.
> >
> > I will get back to you if I am able to complete a Windows build. For now 
> I
> > was just dropping back into Linux so that I could test the new CVS 
> changes
> > the wxMozilla guys made to their package so that I could get UTF-8 to
> > properly display.
> >
> > Shalom,
> > Greg Hellings
> >
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> >
> 
> 
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