[sword-devel] New Windows SWORD GUI.html

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:02:49 -0800

Title: [sword-devel] New Windows SWORD GUI
Hello Simon,
 
I would be *VERY* interested in participating in this. I have drafted a requirements/design document for the radically simplified "LcdBible":
 
L)ittle C)hildren D)evoted to the Bible (could use some help with the "D" :-) Would correspond to the NIrV as far as being oriented to young readers.
 
L)owest C)ommon D)enominator Bible software:
Targetted to non-computer literate missionaries using obsolete computers (Pentium 233, 32 meg mem, 800*600 res, 1 gig hd, broken CD-ROM, unreliable 28.8 kbps modem, LcdBibleSetup.exe with WEB/NT fits on 1.44meg floppy, available by Christmas Eve, 2003)
 
A very preliminary working prototype with nsis install package is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lcdbible/LcdBibleSetup.exe
For now, the 400kb download includes the LcdBible.exe and the WEB NT.
It uses a "plug-in" subset of the Sword-Api that only uses a simplified RawVerse and CanonVersifier to read verses from  modules/texts/rawtext/web/nt and nt.vss (CanonVersifier is a possible parent or 'contained' class for VerseKey).
 
The extent of the gui is using a single combo-box to select a specific Book from the WEB-NT. Then all verses from the first chapter of that book are shown (ie, Matt 1:1-25, Mark 1:1-45, Luke 1:1-80, etc.). The statically linked LcdBible.exe file is 32kb, including those calls to the simplified Sword-Api.
 
Think of the 0.01c prototype as strictly a POC (Proof of Concept) that CanonVersifier logic can put together a page of verses. From this POC, I claim that LcdPrototype is feasible, if this effort is blessed by His Holy Spirit.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lcdbible/LcdBible_src_0_01c.zip
Source code, including:
* project that puts all code in executable (no lib or dll)
* project with .dll that builds swordlib_vc6.lib and swordlib_vc6.dll. Then LcdBible.exe uses swordlib_vc6.dll

* CanonVersifier.cpp and CanonVersifier.h
* script for nsis-198 installer
* modified RawVerse.cpp and RawVerse.h (includes RemoveMostTagsAndExtraSpace(char* buf)
*Let's Discuss*
Lynn
 

[sword-devel] New Windows SWORD GUI

Simon Lagendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:19:43 +0100 

Hi all,

A friend an I have the idea of making a new Bible tool, mainly aimed at 
Windows users, because for Linux there are 2 nice Sword-based tools 
available. We want to the program to run on at least Windows and Linux. 
The code will be released under the GNU licence (or another OpenSource 
licence, I don't know the differences between all those licences for 
OpenSource software, so I'd have to figure out that first, before 
choosing one).

Are there any design-diagrams of Sword available, I mean Data Flow 
Diagrams or UML or something like that? That maybe would save us some 
time in the design phase...

I don't know if the auhors of Sword for Windows, BibleTime and 
GnomeSword are reading this, but if they do: Do you mind if we use some 
idea's of your GUI for our program (I'm not very good at designing User 
Interfaces)?

Is it possible to compile the Sword Engine in a DLL?

We are searching for some OpenSource software development tools. I think 
the most likely to use are the GNU C++ Compiler (MinGW) with the 
wxWindows framework, but I haven't worked with wxWindows before, so 
please can someone tell us if it can easely be used for the task we want 
(i.e. creating a professional looking, multiplatform GUI)?

We also want to support OSIS documents (not only Sword-modules 
containing OSIS markup, but real OSIS documents). Is OSIS 2.0, as 
described on http://www.bibletechnologies.net/, the latest version? Will 
future releases of the OSIS specification be backwards compatible?

Some other features that are on our wishlist for the new program are:
- Exporters (PDF/RTF/PlainText)
- Online updating of document library (just like Sword for Windows), 
supporting Sword modules, OSIS documents, and TheoDoc sources
- Possibility to run from CD, without any installing needed

If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc, please let us know!

In Christ,

Simon

PS> I have dropped the OSISEditor project I was working on. I tried to 
use the RichTextBox as an OSIS edit component, but I didn't get it to do 
what I wanted it to do...

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