Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 15:48, Chris Little wrote: > Been there. Done that. :) But apparently we haven't promoted it > enough, possibly because screenshots of term windows don't look > cool on a webpage. :) Use a different term then. eTerm, for example, is easy to make look cool. I remem

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-20 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Hi! > How does this relate to Sword? Well, Sword is currently available to > C++ programs. There should be alternate interfaces for other tools. A > simple command line tool to quote a verse by reference or output a > concordance like list of references given a search key would be handy > for

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:12, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > > I saw Diatheke in the CVS that I downloaded and was wondering why it > > was added to the project. > > Diatheke is pretty nice, there's a demo somewhere on the Sword web site, > all though apparently the address has fallen into the /

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Chris
> > > GUI apps are standardized far >better than commandline apps are, and the well designed ones are >intuitive. The general user can move from app to app and never have >to consult a manual on mouse clicks. Coders writing GUI apps who >short-circuit this design principal are shooting th

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Timothy R. Butler
> I saw Diatheke in the CVS that I downloaded and was wondering why it > was added to the project. Diatheke is pretty nice, there's a demo somewhere on the Sword web site, all though apparently the address has fallen into the /dev/null part of my brain. One of these days I'm going to get

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Jerry Kreps
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 15:24, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: [snip] > > GUIs are nice. Their benefit lies in making the abstract appear > concrete - visible and audible in todays technology, more in > tomorrows technology. > > However, GUIs have a serious drawback. They require a warm body to >

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Jerry Kreps
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 15:48, Chris Little wrote: > Been there. Done that. :) But apparently we haven't promoted it > enough, possibly because screenshots of term windows don't look > cool on a webpage. :) > > > How does this relate to Sword? Well, Sword is currently > > available to C++

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread David Burry
At 11:16 AM 12/20/2001 +1100, Chris wrote: >>However, GUIs have a serious drawback. They require a warm body to >>operate them. How does this relate to Sword? >I thought you were going to say that you want to automate your bible reading so that >you don't have to do it yourself! you mean like

Re: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Chris
> > > >However, GUIs have a serious drawback. They require a warm body to >operate them. How does this relate to Sword? > I thought you were going to say that you want to automate your bible reading so that you don't have to do it yourself!

RE: [sword-devel] Re: GUI interfaces

2001-12-19 Thread Chris Little
Been there. Done that. :) But apparently we haven't promoted it enough, possibly because screenshots of term windows don't look cool on a webpage. :) > How does this relate to Sword? Well, Sword is currently available to > C++ programs. There should be alternate interfaces for other > tools.