Hi Martin, Thanks for the feedback. WEB 23Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
LcdBible actually *does* use the sword-api: an "experimental" subset of VerseKey and RawVerse to get verses. This has been discussed with Troy G.in a series of offline eMails. I won't put words in his mouth and say he "endorses" the specific subset I'm working with, however. With judious use of #define SWORD_PLUGIN_SUBSET in several existing ./src and ./include files, it will *not* have a problem with changes to data formats if sword modules change. LcdBible would be quite a bit simpler if it just did raw lseek's and raw read's of the nt.vss and nt data files, but that would present the problem you describe. (Leaving aside some filtering issues for the moment. Also, LcdBible's "Search for Phrase" is based on simplified RawText logic.) The very crude 0.01c POC (Proof Of Concept) prototype demonstated (as least to me) that the "CanonVersifier" logic can get verses from ./modules/texts/rawtext. With it's orientation to children/missionaries/non-techies, it does not use "parsing" to decide what chapter the end-user wants to see. The 0.60a CTreeCtrl is the only "widget", and it is thus not possible to specify an invalid chapter (if the software does its part.) Also, this class is designed to be a possible parent class for VerseKey, or a class that VerseKey contains in a "has-a" relationship. My hope is to persuade the maintainers of The SWORD Project to allow LcdBible to "piggy-back" with the Starter-Set. Eventually, I hope to request a "smart" download page that can put together a specific "payload" of LcdBible + text (such as Spanish, or OT+NT, or Dutch, etc.) >> I can only comment on the "frontend" issue, since I am no license expert. I'll check with Chris Little and gnu-legal. I would almost prefer to release LcdBible as public domain than GPL (to avoid GPL-virus issues), but will comply with The SWORD Project's expectations. Is it possible to release LcdBible as "dual license"? Also, my impression is that I have the option of retaining copyright rather than relinquishing copyright to CrossWire. Sharing the reason for the season, http://learningcards.eeworks.org/EeCard01.html Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Afaict, your program does (for size and speed) reasons not use the sword > programming library, but accesses the texts itself. That is simply why I > would not call your program a Sword frontend. Once the data format of sword > modules changes, you'll need to change your code as well, which is not > necessary for Sword frontends. > > Martin > > > * I think of LcdBible as a "plug-in" to the Sword-Api. It exists to take > > advantage of the Bible texts that are available using an "experimental" > > subset of the Sword-Api. It might possibly "piggy-back" with the > > Starter-Set (only adds about 20kb compressed) > > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
