Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad

2025-06-19 Thread Johan Marais
Thank you David, I appreciate your feedback. Regards, Johan From: sword-devel On Behalf Of David Haslam Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2025 09:01 To: sword-devel mailing list Subject: Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad Aside: John & others may find that for backups of iPhone &

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad

2025-06-19 Thread David Haslam
rd. > > Fortunately the iOS version on both tablets are the same. > > Regards, > > Johan > > From: sword-devel On Behalf Of Greg > Hellings > Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2025 07:38 > To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Po

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad

2025-06-18 Thread Johan Marais
Developers' Collaboration Forum Subject: Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM Johan Marais mailto:johan.mar...@messianic.co.za>> wrote: Good morning. I need assistance with PocketSword please – I am aware that the developer (Nic Carter) is no long

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad

2025-06-18 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM Johan Marais wrote: > Good morning. > > I need assistance with PocketSword please – I am aware that the developer > (Nic Carter) is no longer involved. > > I got a new (for me) iPad, but when I transferred PocketSword from my old > iPad to the new iPad, PocketSwor

[sword-devel] PocketSword on new iPad

2025-06-18 Thread Johan Marais
Good morning. I need assistance with PocketSword please – I am aware that the developer (Nic Carter) is no longer involved. I got a new (for me) iPad, but when I transferred PocketSword from my old iPad to the new iPad, PocketSword was transferred, but when I tried opening is, I received a messa

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-15 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hi Ryan, No, you are not the only one.  Marjan pointed this out to me a couple days ago when I first posted in this thread.  Looking into it, Google had removed Bishop 2 weeks ago because we had not properly identified CrossWire Bible Society as an organization with our D-U-N-S number and gov

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Maxwell Murunga
Thanks David, please pardon that, I sent the message while engaged elsewhere, and had not thought it necessary to introduce myself since I was last active here in 2020. I also took it for granted that everyone could see my name since Gmail does that on my end. My name is Mr. Maxwell Murunga. I do n

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Ryan
Am I the only android user who can't find Bishop on Google Play anymore? >Bishop does this and compiles for both iOS and Android: > >https://crosswire.org/applications/#bishop > ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Tobias Klein
Thanks for bringing that up, Greg. The only reason why Ezra Bible App is not available on iOS is my fear of the regular additional release / testing overhead. I even have iOS devices in the household. In general, it should be possible to build the app for iOS based on the frameworks/ technol

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread David Haslam
It would be nice if the sender of the previous reply might introduce himself/herself to the team. Has anyone used the GitHub facility to import the PocketSword repository from Atlassian BitBucket? Nic's source code is at https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword Best regards, David Sent wi

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Maxwell Murunga
As a long-time PocketSword user, I am willing to contribute to this effort. I am fairly familiar with the PocketSword source code, having built it several times about 5 years ago. Even at the time, it was already in the realm of "legacy"; I could tell that it desperately needed to be ported over t

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread refdoc
from Outlook for iOS  From: sword-devel on behalf of Troy A. Griffitts Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 12:47 pmTo: sword-devel@crosswire.org Subject: Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword Hey guys,As Fr.  Cyrille mentions, Bishop is available on iOS.Bishop builds Swift wrappers around the SWORD C++ engine

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hey guys, As Fr.  Cyrille mentions, Bishop is available on iOS. Bishop builds Swift wrappers around the SWORD C++ engine and uses those for delivery of the cordova plugin for the SWORD library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-crosswire-sword This should already make available th

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Michael H
STEPBible is also on IOS. AFAIK it uses sword internally. and is open source. On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Hey guys, > > As Fr. Cyrille mentions, Bishop is available on iOS. > > Bishop builds Swift wrappers around the SWORD C++ engine and uses those > for delivery

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread David Haslam
FYI. I emailed Nic Carter and he responded with a cc: to Michael. In his second paragraph, he made these technical observations: //Given the rapid development of Apple’s frameworks on iOS, it’s hard to keep an app “up to date” and even compiling on iOS! I have looked a little at the situation

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Fr Cyrille
Le 14/01/2025 à 04:23, Greg Hellings a écrit : Is there a reason, if a rewrite is in the works, not to collaborate along with another effort that is cross-platform capable? There are several good toolkits already out there that can produce very serviceable mobile apps. Ezra is built, I belie

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-14 Thread Martin Denham
Hi Aaron, Thanks for copying me in. The app is not deleted, just made private, I am still working on the app and initially targeting Android and iOS. I made it private because there is a lot to do and don't plan to release it for a while, so I wanted to avoid the possibility of people ripping i

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-13 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
If anyone managed to clone the Kotlin Multiplatform app that showed up on the mailing lists some time ago, that might be a worthwhile base to start from. https://crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2024-November/050252.html Unfortunately the author seems to have deleted their repo already. (I've C

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-13 Thread Greg Hellings
Is there a reason, if a rewrite is in the works, not to collaborate along with another effort that is cross-platform capable? There are several good toolkits already out there that can produce very serviceable mobile apps. Ezra is built, I believe, on Apache's Cordova and already works very well ac

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-13 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
I discussed this with a volunteer developer, today. We agreed that probably the best way forward was a rewrite/replacement. If anyone wants to contribute to that effort, please let me know. On 1/13/25 00:26, David Haslam wrote: FYI: I've just noted the discovery in the developers' wiki https

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-13 Thread David Haslam
FYI: I've just noted the discovery in the developers' wiki https://wiki.crosswire.org/Frontends:PocketSword Best regards, David Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, January 12th, 2025 at 10:12 PM, David Haslam wrote: > Dear all, > > Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longe

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-13 Thread David Haslam
FYI. Nic used Atlassian BitBucket for the software development. [niccarter / pocketsword — Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/niccarter/pocketsword/src/main/) Best regards, David Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email. On Monday, January 13th, 2025 at 1:20 AM, Kahunap

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-12 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
Sadly, Craig dropped the ball on this one. There is another possible volunteer that I will be talking to soon... On 1/12/25 12:12, David Haslam wrote: Dear all, Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longer downloadable from the App Store! NB. I've already alerted Michael Johnson via Mess

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-12 Thread Johan Marais
mailing list Subject: [sword-devel] PocketSword Dear all, Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longer downloadable from the App Store! NB. I've already alerted Michael Johnson via Messenger. cf. The original developer (Nic Carter) stopped developing the software after he

[sword-devel] PocketSword

2025-01-12 Thread David Haslam
Dear all, Today I discovered that PocketSword is no longer downloadable from the App Store! NB. I've already alerted Michael Johnson via Messenger. cf. The original developer (Nic Carter) stopped developing the software after he moved to teach in New Zealand several years ago. Presumably, App

[sword-devel] PocketSword

2020-09-07 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hey guys and gals, What's the current situation with PocketSword?  I know someone claimed they were planning to assume ownership of the project and build against the latest stuff, but I can't remember who.  This email was just sent to sword-support and I don't believe we have anyone subscribed

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-28 Thread David Haslam
In theory, a module cipherkey could also be changed for a module update if (e.g.) the copyright owner included additional content and wished to charge users more than they paid for the earlier version. Front-ends also need to cover that scenario, even if it’s not one we’ve seen in real life yet

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread David Haslam
AFAIK there’s no module conf key that works as the opposite to Obsoletes= David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 20:30, Michael H wrote: > Is it possible that the modules and .conf can sunset ... pointing across > repositories to the new replacement? I know there is some f

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Michael Johnson
I think that dividing the eBible repository into sub repos is probably not the best solution to the problem of finding the particular translation(s) you want among nearly a thousand others. That actually becomes a front end problem, where better ways of filtering, sorting, and presenting lists b

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Michael H
Is it possible that the modules and .conf can sunset ... pointing across repositories to the new replacement? I know there is some facility to name a successor module in the conf/updating process, but can it name one on another site? If that is possible, Some of the out of date editions of the WE

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Cyrille
Hi, Thank for this reflexions. Le 13/03/2020 à 19:33, Michael Johnson a écrit : > I plan to update PocketSword so that it draws from all official repositories, > by default, much like AndBible does. > > Duplicating works in repositories is helpful, perhaps, for front ends that > only look at one

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Michael Johnson
Actually, web servers don't get corona viruses, and people don't congregate in crowds around them physically, so COVID-19 has no direct effect on web servers or their use. The pandemic, however, does have some serious side-effects due to widespread panic, overreactions, shutdowns, shortages, etc

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread David Haslam
And having multiple repository servers also makes sense in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 18:33, Michael Johnson wrote: > I plan to update PocketSword so that it draws from all official repositories, > by default, much like And

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Michael Johnson
I plan to update PocketSword so that it draws from all official repositories, by default, much like AndBible does. Duplicating works in repositories is helpful, perhaps, for front ends that only look at one repository at a time, especially if the work is kept up to date in both repositories. Wh

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Cyrille
Le 13/03/2020 à 12:55, David Haslam a écrit : > Cyrille, > > I’m not in favour of removing modules from CrossWire simply because > one of the affiliated repositories has a similar module. Why not? > > Nor should it ever be expected that a module published by eBible.org > would include an Obsolete

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread David Haslam
Perhaps the only exception I would consider would be the suggestion that the three WEB modules should be removed by CrossWire because these were based on a very early edition of the WEB source text files obtained from Michael Johnson. They are now well out of date compared to the equivalents on

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Cyrille
Le 13/03/2020 à 12:55, David Haslam a écrit : > Cyrille, > > I’m not in favour of removing modules from CrossWire simply because > one of the affiliated repositories has a similar module. At the beginning I understood because it's not clear how the sword UI propose the access to the diverse repos

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread David Haslam
Cyrille, I’m not in favour of removing modules from CrossWire simply because one of the affiliated repositories has a similar module. Nor should it ever be expected that a module published by eBible.org would include an Obsoletes key with one of CrossWire’s modules as the parameter. Regards,

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-13 Thread Cyrille
Dear all, Actually my worry was about a question between the module team. We have duplicated modules, in Crosswire and in ebible.org. Often the ebible.org are updated and not in Crosswire. And we are very slow to update the new module in Crosswire. Then I proposed to remove in the Crosswire repo, a

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-12 Thread Nic Carter
On the downloads screen, tap on the folder icon in the top right corner, then refresh the source list. That will show all servers in the Master Server List. Sent from my phone, hence this email may be short... > On 13/03/2020, at 09:24, Cyrille wrote: > > Hi Michael, > Maybe add the updating

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-12 Thread David Haslam
Cyrillic, That feature already exists! Click the folder icon top right of Downloads and select Refresh Source List. There’s no excuse to ignore an icon in the UI of an iOS app. David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 20:23, Cyrille wrote: > Hi Michael, > Maybe add the upda

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-12 Thread Cyrille
Hi Michael, Maybe add the updating of all the repositories at once, as with Andbible and Bishop. This will help users who don't know they are other repository as ebible.org... My 2 cents :) Br Cyrille Le 12/03/2020 à 20:30, Michael Johnson a écrit : > Hello, my brothers and sisters in Christ. > >

[sword-devel] PocketSword status

2020-03-12 Thread Michael Johnson
Hello, my brothers and sisters in Christ. I just thought I should post a status on PocketSword work. I have started on updating it, but haven't yet gotten to a stable point for testing using Test Flight. Right now, it is, unfortunately, on hold, as I have another task in the foreground. I finis

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-13 Thread Michael Johnson
Thank you, Manfred and Troy. :-) I'll keep these in mind as I update PocketSword. On 3/13/19 12:01 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote: > >> Am 13.03.2019 um 09:46 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts : >> >> >> In addition, there are new Swift bindings which work against that Universal >> binary for both MacOS and

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-13 Thread Manfred Bergmann
> Am 13.03.2019 um 09:46 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts : > > > In addition, there are new Swift bindings which work against that Universal > binary for both MacOS and iOS. They were done for the Cordova plugin, but > most of the code could be used standalone if anyone is interested in writing >

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-13 Thread David Haslam
Hi Michael, Good to read of the technical progress. Have you visited our tracker to see what other issues need fixing. We were alerted a few months ago to Apple's current requirements for iOS app providers to have an adequate privacy policy that meets their legal standards and which (IIRC) is

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-13 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
If anyone cares, there is now a supportes build of a Universal libsword binary in the SWORD repo that works for MacOS and iOS. It's under the objc bindings and drew heavily from the setup already in there by Manfred and others (thank you) This readme at this path in the source is a good place t

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-13 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi. When Nic started developing this I had suggested to collaborate in the SWORD backend both used in MacSword/Eloquent and PocketSword. Unfortunately PocketSword then used its own baked backend with modifications to the MacSword code (at the time). I’m still thinking that there should be colla

[sword-devel] PocketSword progress

2019-03-12 Thread Michael Johnson
So far, on my copy of PocketSword I have: * Updated to the latest Sword engine. * Switched from downloading indexes to generating them. (The time consumed is not unreasonable for this, now. Apple doesn't support the old, slow hardware that made this seem necessary in the first place.) The l

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword search indices

2019-01-07 Thread DM Smith
I think I’ve narrowed down the problem. More later. — DM Smith From my phone. Brief. Weird autocorrections. > On Jan 6, 2019, at 10:05 AM, DM Smith wrote: > > Nic is in the process of moving and that might affect his availability. > > I’ve PocketSword and access to the logs. I’ll look to see

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword search indices

2019-01-06 Thread DM Smith
Nic is in the process of moving and that might affect his availability. I’ve PocketSword and access to the logs. I’ll look to see what I can figure out. Yesterday Peter, Troy and I worked on fixing the server module issues. I’m certain there’s more we will discover. Like this. — DM Smith From m

[sword-devel] PocketSword search indices

2019-01-06 Thread ref...@gmx.net
David points out that search indices on PocketSword for the newest modules do not work. I have no way of debugging that as I do not have an idevice. The indices are currently built on my computer and pushed to the server whenever I build a new module. My system is a debian testing amd64 system,

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword search index creation?

2018-10-15 Thread David Haslam
Correction: There’s still a problem. The search index for these three modules only appeared to get installed, but then trying a search afterwards still reported the absence of the index. This is weird ! David H. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:44, David Haslam wrote:

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword search index creation?

2018-10-15 Thread David Haslam
Thanks DM, Providing such a module is first deleted from PocketSword, installing it again does succeed with the search index being found afterwards and installed. Merely manually trying a search without having reinstalled the module was unsuccessful in finding the index. That may be an issue in

[sword-devel] PocketSword search index creation?

2018-10-12 Thread David Haslam
Recently released or updated modules are again without a downloadable search index that can be installed by PocketSword. Has a script failed somehow? If so, why was nothing logged when it started to go wrong? Could someone please document the process, dependencies and requirements that must be

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword update

2017-07-04 Thread David Haslam
Nic, Excellent news! Many thanks for putting in all the effort to get this release out. Version 1.4.8 has: What's New 26 Jun 2017 - Updated for 64bit - Updated for iOS 10 - Fixed search! - Fixed Strong's Numbers search bug Should that have read? - Updated for iOS 11 or is this too premature to

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword update

2017-06-26 Thread ref...@gmx.net
Nic, this is fantastic. Thanks!Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects. Original Message Subject: [sword-devel] PocketSword updateFrom: Nic Carter To: sword-devel@crosswire.orgCC: Hi all,There is a new version of PS (1.4.8) on the App Store. Lots

[sword-devel] PocketSword update

2017-06-26 Thread Nic Carter
Hi all, There is a new version of PS (1.4.8) on the App Store. Lots of thanks to those who assisted in getting this one out the door. It doesn't have all the fixes in it I would have liked, but it fixes search, Strong's, 64bit & works with iOS 11. Any bug reports are welcome & I'll see if I can

[sword-devel] PocketSword on IOS

2017-05-27 Thread Leslie Craig
Hi Nic, There seems to be a problem on the app which means that Strongs searches do not work and the app crashes. I have only noticed this recently. I was showing a teen Bible group how to study using the PocketSword app and it was a bit embarrassing! Warmly Leslie ___

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-05-07 Thread Timothy Shen-McCullough
Hi, I've noticed in the new PocketSword code that the oldest version of iOS that it is set to run on is iOS 8. My last understanding though was for it to be compatible back to iOS 6. So, is it being changed permanently then to iOS 8? -TS --Sent from phone-- > On Apr 22, 2017, at 6:54 AM,

[sword-devel] PocketSword and non-Lucene search?

2017-04-28 Thread David Haslam
Is PocketSword unique among SWORD based front-ends in being the only one where all searches must use the Lucene search index? I think so. i.e. You cannot perform a non-Lucene search with PocketSword. With my observations about Coptic to the fore, this essentially means that you cannot use Pocket

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-27 Thread TS
Hi, So, yesterday I took a look at Nic’s new code and compared it to the last code that I had worked on which turned out to be back in Dec. It seems that a lot of our code may be complimentary to each other! :) So, this is good news. I need to dig in some more, but it looks like we foc

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-25 Thread Nic Carter
If you can let me know who I have missed (forgotten!), I’ll add them. Shoot me an email directly (off the list). > On 25 Apr 2017, at 6:49 pm, David Haslam wrote: > > Installed 1.4.8 (19) beta via TestFlight in my iPhone 5. > > No data lost. Reinstalled KJV 2.9 complete with search index suc

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-25 Thread David Haslam
Installed 1.4.8 (19) beta via TestFlight also in my iPad Mini. No data lost. Reinstalled KJV 2.9 complete with search index successfully. Best regards, David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/PocketSword-beta-testing-tp4657080p4657100.html Sent from the

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-25 Thread David Haslam
Installed 1.4.8 (19) beta via TestFlight in my iPhone 5. No data lost. Reinstalled KJV 2.9 complete with search index successfully. *About:* Suggest add the more recent helpers' names in the *With help from:* (subject to their permission, of course). I've reported a few other minor niggles by p

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-24 Thread Timothy Shen-McCullough
I have not been able to work on PS for a while. However, I believe that I did do a lot of stuff which is not uploaded anywhere. My last recollection is that it ran 64 bit on the recent APIs on the simulator and that my next planned step was to undo some commenting that I had put in place and the

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-23 Thread David Haslam
At least the Nabble mirror does a decent job of hiding our email addresses, even when they're in the body of the message! David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/PocketSword-beta-testing-tp4657080p4657083.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-22 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Blast you, Thunderbird... That was supposed to go just to Nic. So much for advertised keybindings. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your setti

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-22 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 04/22/2017 09:54 AM, Nic Carter wrote: > please privately email me with your AppleID and I’ll add you to the > TestFlight list and you can see if you can break it k...@kleinpaste.org Oddly I don't seem to have Test Flight installed any more...lost sometime along the way in the upgrade cycle (

[sword-devel] PocketSword beta testing

2017-04-22 Thread Nic Carter
Hi all, So, I have tried to play around with PS to get it happy with all the hoops it needs to jump through for it to work again on iOS. This incorporates some hard work done by Manfred & TS. Changes: - enhancement: 64-bit - FIX: search downloader (??) - FIX: “find all” for Strong’s Numbers - u

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-11 Thread David Haslam
Hi Tim, I first tried it on my iPhone and just with Speak Selection. A passage from KJV Romans 6 was selected, and I'd set the English (UK) voice to Daniel (Enhanced). No serious problems. Quite satisfied with the results, once I'd set a suitable reading speed. Later I also tried it on my iPad

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread Nic Carter
It was on the todo list to implement voice similar to And-Bible. It required stripping the text properly and other bits, but right now all PS has is the native built-in TTS which I was careful to make sure worked properly for visually impaired. I used to get feedback from some users when I would

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 02/10/2017 05:48 PM, TS wrote: > The Screen reader version, for example, will pronounce the "L" in > "LORD" as a separate word and then "ORD" as the following word whereas > selecting the words themselves and having them spoken will not have > that problem. That indicates that the former is bein

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread TS
:) I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in enjoying this type of feature. I actually have a story regarding this matter that I hope to write about later. How exactly are you triggering the TTS to work? There's two different methods that I know of at least. You can have the "Screen" read or

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread David Haslam
Thanks Manfred, Indeed, but you first have to know about it before you can go and find out how to enable it. And when a features comparison said "No" incorrectly, it might have put some folk off even wondering. Best wishes, David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.n

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
I think that’s a standard functionality on iOS and macOS. You can have the system speak any text anywhere, almost. Manfred > Am 10.02.2017 um 12:43 schrieb David Haslam : > > After all these years of owning an iPad Mini & iPhone 5, I just found out > that iOS devices do have TTS capability. >

[sword-devel] PocketSword can speak!

2017-02-10 Thread David Haslam
After all these years of owning an iPad Mini & iPhone 5, I just found out that iOS devices do have TTS capability. So I just updated this section of our wiki page. https://crosswire.org/wiki/Choosing_a_SWORD_program#Other Quite a number of languages are supported when you select Voice. I've just

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword indexes for the eBible.org repository?

2015-09-09 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
Title: signature Hello, Nic. I thought you might be thinking that. We need a new approach. The eBible.org repository will probably never be much more stable than it is right now. I'm not aware of any pressing need to do a whole-repository rebuild at

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword indexes for the eBible.org repository?

2015-09-09 Thread Nic Carter
I was wanting to wait until things were a little more stable before starting automatic generation. The way things work is that I create an index for each module, but I create an index for each version of each module. I don't delete them, either, as a user may have an older version of a module a

[sword-devel] PocketSword indexes for the eBible.org repository?

2015-09-08 Thread Kahunapule Michael Johnson
Title: signature Has index generation for PocketSword to use with eBible.org repository modules been automated, yet? Is there anything I can do to help make that happen? I could create them on my local machine and upload them as necessary, if that would help... --

Re: [sword-devel] Pocketsword - was Re: DSS (Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls based upon DJD translations)

2012-11-13 Thread Andrew Thule
Agreed. Moving on to a better employment perhaps? If so, congrats, and good news for Crosswire development too! ~A On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > On 13/11/12 21:08, Nic Carter wrote: > >> ps: for those still reading along, today is my 2nd last day of work for >> m

[sword-devel] Pocketsword - was Re: DSS (Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls based upon DJD translations)

2012-11-13 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On 13/11/12 21:08, Nic Carter wrote: ps: for those still reading along, today is my 2nd last day of work for my current employer & so I get to actually do some programming for CrossWire again soon! :) expect a release soon for everyone's favourite iOS app that supports the SWORD format ;) Great

[sword-devel] PocketSword ....

2012-03-05 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there It's a 'significant' birthday for me. My son and daughter-in-law bought me an iPod Touch. Among other things, I've put PocketSword on it. Apart from the slightly bizarre way of transferring existing modules from my PC, it is a fantastic app. I'm delighted with it Grateful th

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-18 Thread Nic Carter
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the comments. :) Yes, there's a chance of Gen Book support soon, but I guess it depends on your definition of "soon"? ;) I just had a quick look at my current PocketSword todo list (it's only in double digits atm! only 95, I thought there were more) and it is probably

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-17 Thread jdhardin
Hi Nick, Thanks! I'm using the new app on my iPad this morning. ;-) Any chance of Gen Book support soon? Many, many thanks. Blessings, Jeff -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/PocketSword-for-iPad-tp3800546p3820335.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archi

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-12 Thread Nic Carter
Do you mean at http://www.crosswire.org/news.jsp ??? If so, now that I've figured out how the news works on the site, it's done... :) On 12/09/2011, at 5:14 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Nic, we should put this out in the news thread on CW. > > Peter

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-12 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Nic, we should put this out in the news thread on CW. Peter On 12/09/11 04:23, Nic Carter wrote: > > Hi Martin, > >> Congratulations Nic, > > Thanks. :) > >> Could I ask for more information on a couple of changes? >> The release notes include "more fonts for displaying more Asian >> languag

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-11 Thread Nic Carter
Hi Martin, > Congratulations Nic, Thanks. :) > Could I ask for more information on a couple of changes? > The release notes include "more fonts for displaying more Asian language > scripts" but which fonts did you use for which languages - I have been doing > some work on fonts in AB too. I

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-09 Thread David Haslam
Nic, I just added {{yes}} to German, Portuguese and [new row for] Thai in the PS column of the table in http://crosswire.org/wiki/Choosing_a_SWORD_program#Localization http://crosswire.org/wiki/Choosing_a_SWORD_program#Localization Please everyone, keep an eye on this page, and remember to upda

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-09 Thread Martin Denham
Congratulations Nic, Could I ask for more information on a couple of changes? The release notes include "more fonts for displaying more Asian language scripts" but which fonts did you use for which languages - I have been doing some work on fonts in AB too. Also, what ui changes did you make for

[sword-devel] PocketSword for iPad

2011-09-08 Thread Nic Carter
Hi team, Just a quick note to say that CrossWire is finally on the iPad. :) PocketSword was released earlier today on the App Store with support for the iPad, along with a few other additions (including the hardcoding of the av11n repo, as I gave up waiting for it to be added to the MasterRe

Re: [sword-devel] pocketsword - maintainer mode

2011-06-15 Thread Johan Marais
; Collaboration Forum Subject: Re: [sword-devel] pocketsword - maintainer mode Thanks Peter, It's encouraging to hear how people are using PocketSword and especially when I hear of people using the "module maintainer mode" in the way I initially envisaged it -- a "module maint

Re: [sword-devel] pocketsword - maintainer mode

2011-06-15 Thread Nic Carter
Thanks Peter, It's encouraging to hear how people are using PocketSword and especially when I hear of people using the "module maintainer mode" in the way I initially envisaged it -- a "module maintainer" (or module creator) manually installing a module for testing purposes over a Wi-Fi networ

[sword-devel] pocketsword - maintainer mode

2011-06-14 Thread Peter von Kaehne
This is just a thank you to Nic: Together with a bible translator friend I worked on his translation last weekend, to give it the last clean-up in terms of encoding etc. I then created a module, which should appear in due course. When I tried to figure out how to put it into his iPhone, I stumble

[sword-devel] PocketSword v1.4.0 released

2011-03-05 Thread Nic Carter
Hi gang, Just a quick FYI: a new version of PocketSword is now up on the App Store (see the iTunes link at the bottom of this email). This release focuses on making the search screen usable (altho if you use the "default" search settings, you can still use full & crazy CLucene search strings)

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2 (Johan Marais)

2010-09-08 Thread Nic Carter
Heya, I have avoided asking the translators to translate that help screen because I have been meaning to completely redo that screen. Unfortunately I haven't had time to actually do that yet, but that is scheduled for the next release. Once I've redone the search screen, then the help text w

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2 (Johan Marais)

2010-09-07 Thread Mattias Põldaru
> (Also, the term "loved one" that is used as an example, is that in a > context of a verb or a description?, which makes a difference how to > word it and explain it in the translation. So that we stay consistant > with the example used across the many translations). "Loved one" would end up as

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2 (Johan Marais)

2010-09-07 Thread Pypsik Pypsik
ific than "Re: Contents of sword-devel digest..." Today's Topics:    1. Re: PocketSword v1.3.2 (Johan Marais) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:50:43 +0200 From: "Johan Marais" To: "'SWORD Deve

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2

2010-09-07 Thread Johan Marais
That will go a long way, thank you. Johan -Original Message- From: Nic Carter [mailto:niccar...@mac.com] Sent: 07 September 2010 03:39 AM To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Subject: Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2 Hoping that Notes, improved Bookmarks & improved

Re: [sword-devel] PocketSword v1.3.2

2010-09-06 Thread Nic Carter
Hoping that Notes, improved Bookmarks & improved search UI are going to be the next version... That's the plan right now, but we'll see what ends up happening. :) Thanks, ybic nic... :) Nic Carter PocketSword Developer - an iPhone Bible Study app www: http://crosswire.org/pock

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