Hi,
yes, I was referring to the  Sword gui front-end. But I saw that there are installation files for Linux also. Thus I thought it was not using win32 specific components (riched32.dll, etc.). I did not have a chance to try Sword under Linux. Do you perhaps know how the issue was solved there?

 Kindest regards,

 Fabrizio Lanza

2006/2/11, L.Allan-pbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I suppose you are asking about The SWORD Project's gui application, which is
BibleCS (also known as "The SWORD Project for Windows" and aka sword.exe).
The sword-api (aka the sword engine) is a C++ library with no gui component.
BibleCS uses the sword-api to access modules such as Bibles, commentaries,
etc. and is a "front-end" to display them (along with searching and other
functionality, but that is a quick summary).

These are my understandings:
* BibleCS was developed in Borland C++ Builder 5 (BCB-5),
* ongoing development can be done with BCB-6.
* BCB provides a wrapper around the Microsoft rtf rich edit

For the development I've one on a CrossWire front-end, I've been generally
satisfied with rtf. However, one issue about choosing RTF is how concerned
you are about compatability with Win9x and WinMe. They came with older
versions of riched32.dll and riched20.dll, and my experience is that you
spend quite a bit of time fussing with the differences. On Win2000 and
WinXp, I found the rich-edit control to be very capable and more than
acceptable to work with. The headache was Win9x support.

My 2ยข worth.

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