Barry,
The more I use SwordReader, and the more I learn about the poor HTML
support in WindowsCE the more I want to write my own text viewer widget.
I used PalmBible+ a lot. I was always impressed with the way it handled
the text. But at the moment, I'm not unimpressed by what we have. The
biggest problem presently seems to be directly connected with heavily
tagged Sword modules. I have not yet repeated the 'out of memory'
problem exactly as I saw it before. It may have been that I did a
particular sequence of operations that had memory leaks before trying to
re-start SwordReader. However, this one IS repeatable. Use NET bible
at Rev 22:1, and do shutdown. On attempting to re-start, it fails
..... every time. This chapter has at least one especially long
footnote embedded. I haven't looked at the mechanics of this, but I
don't think that we can ever make SwordReader work really nicely with
the most heavily tagged Sword modules.
I think once *we* have control of the viewer (as opposed to window's
html viewer) deailing with these heavily tagged texts can be handled
much more elegantly, and we can do on demand parsing/loading as opposed
to an entire chapter at once. We can also ignore the hyperlink tags
until a link is clicked, then fetch the link text, whereas now we
actually load and store this data in the html page.
For this reason, I'm really hoping we can move at a radical level
alongside Lynn Allan to offer modules in a format that we can handle
slickly!
What is this format? I am not sure I am familiar with what you are
talking about.
On another front, if or when you look at the module installer I've made,
I'm sure you will be most underwhelmed byt the opening gui screen. I
don't do 'pretty', and I notice that all of your stuff is build with an
eye for appearance. Just to say, if you want to change it completely, I
won't in the least be offended. My work has all the aesthetic appeal of
a below average 1960's architect! His motto was something like
'Functionality is everything. Appearance needs to reflect
functionality, and beauty is an unnecessary overhead!'. As I'm glad
that we are now in the process of demolishing all those obscene 1960's
buildings, I'll be equally happy for you to 'demolish' my *very
practical* opening form!
Yes, I like things to look appealing as well as functional. I have not
taken the time to look at your installer yet, I have been rather focused
on the UI. I will try to look at it soon, but probably won't make any
code contributions until I get the UI where I want it.
--
In Christ,
David Trotz
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