I agree with Barry that the current program is more than adequate for the job it is meant. The two things I find missing on the Palm Bible as compared to the Sword for Windows are: - No dictionaries such as Strongs or Naves. - No precompiled search. The processor is very slow and searching a few books takes ages. This may fall away with the ARM processors being fast enough.
Andrew. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/3/2003 19:31 >>> Hi there ........ On 12 Mar 2003 at 16:34, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > :) maybe someday. I'd be interested in working with a group of people to > make this happen. If I hear much response to this thread with willing > volunteers, we can start a group/project aimed at this end. My thoughts - for what they're worth. The Palm OS is primitive and slow. It has to be. None of the Palms have much memory, and the architecture can never be as fast as your slowest PC. It's the nature of the beast. Having said that, the two translations I have in parallel on my Palm using Palm Bible are very adequate for the purpose. I can and do change them from time to time according to my needs, and as I can have access to any of my Sword modules for this purpose, the two I can have on board at any one time can be very varied - and one of them can be a commentary if I so choose. Given the limitations of the Palm and its OS, I really don't think it worth pushing the system any further. I feel quite honestly that we could make the biggest contribution if we were to offer every Sword module we have as a Palm database, along with the Palm Bible, in its GPL form. We have that already, and the modules are so quick and easy to make, it wouldn't take a lot of work. If then, some enthusiast from our number wanted to make improvemements to the GPL Palm Bible software, that would be possible. I see porting of the Sword engine as relatively pointless. The whole of it would be too memory hungry. Just as one example, Palm stuff has a native compression/expansion routine used by all the document readers. Why soak up precious memory by adding a second one? Also, to include handling of many types (structures) of module as Sword does would prove nothing more than a memory sink on the Palm architecture. That's my bit - for what it's worth. And yes - I would be part of a group 'doing things' if we went down that path! God bless, Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church homepages). Replies - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
