Hi DM. Well, I think you have encouraged me to help develop BibleDesktop and JSword.
I might not have 20 hours a week but 10 should be possible for me. Yes, you already talked about some of the features that I miss like parallel bible view (which I find very important because I like finding differences in translation). And personal commentaries (but not only commentaries, I think of personal dictionaries as well). There are some other features that I would like to see like a plug-in interface for pluging in new views like timelines or graphical things (like maps or something). I had a quick view at the sources and they seem to be "cleaned up". Due to the fact that I'm a Mac user I would like to improve the Look & Feel on the Mac platform. Swing is mostly Windows optimized and the Look & Feel on the Mac is not very good. There are however some frameworks which can be used to enhance this. I also would like to see an Application Bundle of BibleDesktop for Mac users. That's all for now here. I already subscribed to the jsword mailing list and I would like to ask some questions there. Best regards, Manfred Am 27.08.2006 um 16:08 schrieb DM Smith: > Manfred, > I actively develop JSword and BibleDesktop. If you would take a look > at the releases we make, they are several times a year. There are no > guarantees in life, but I intend to actively develop JSword as long > as the Lord wills. I spend around 20 hours a week on CrossWire > development. > > I would like to strongly encourage you to help make BibleDesktop > better rather than creating yet another GUI. BibleDesktop is cross- > platform already. I think we can reach more by making it better. > > I bet that BibleDesktop has most of what you want. And that the > features that it lacks is precisely what should be added. Please join > us on the jsword-devel mailing list. I will be glad to walk you > through any feature you would like to add. > > JSword is a re-implementation of Sword C++ API. It has most features > that the Sword API has, but notably is missing support for GenBook > and module writing (i.e. no Personal Commentary). There are some > other missing features (such as being able to install modules from > the network) but these have not been requested. If you want to see > our "wish-list" go to www.crosswire.org/bugs and look under JSword, > Common and BibleDesktop. > > The development model is to be responsive to user requests. That is > if there is strong interest in a new feature, we work on that next. > Usually, it is because we are personally interested in it ourselves. > GenBook and Personal Commentary are next on the agenda. GenBook > because it is the basis of alternate versification and Personal > Commentary because it is probably the most requested feature next to > Parallel Bible view. > > We have deliberately not kept JSword in sync with Sword. Our filter > architecture is superficially similar but very different. So many > changes to Sword are unnecessary to replicate in JSword. > > Lately, I have been working on the KJV and ESV modules and have not > been making many changes to JSword. The reason for this is that the > KJV is the most downloaded module and it was encoded so badly that it > looked terrible in JSword/BibleDesktop. I have also been contributing > to the Sword C++ API recently. > > Also, we now have support for compressed dictionaries. We had not > addressed this earlier because there was only one compressed > dictionary and the utility of dictionaries in BibleDesktop is weak. > But we have added it because there are going to be a lot more > compressed dictionaries in the near future. > > The next release of BibleDesktop also has a bunch of internal > changes to JSword related to platform appropriate persistence. > > Look for a release in the next few days. > > In His Service, > DM > > > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote: > >> Hi list. >> >> I'm planing to develop a new Bible Study tool, Java based to be >> almost platformindependant so that a lot of peaple can be reached. >> Why another frontend? Well I do bible study myself and tried some >> programs like MacSword, Bible Desktop and Accordance. Had a look at >> Bibletime, too. >> Although I use Accordance currently I want something that merges >> the best things of all products and hopefully improve them where >> they have to be improved. And this something should be freeware or >> open source. >> SWORD seemed to be the best solution to have a wide range of bible >> texts, dictionaries and commentaries available. >> >> While using Java I want to use the JSword library for the backend. >> My question now: >> What is the development progress on JSword. Has it all functions >> the SWORD (C++) library has? Does it get updated immidiately when >> SWORD itself is updated? Is the future development guaranteed >> (Well, I know there are no guarantees but what is the forecast here)? >> >> >> Best regards, >> Manfred >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________Der >> frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. 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