I hesitate to ask for much more in the way of new feature support, considering that Troy has graciously reacted so well to my previous agitation about a new release, but let me just put a bug in folks' ears about the need for improvements to image support in Sword Project UIs.
Peter (refdoc) recently aimed me at a wonderful resource for some lovely and useful image collections. As a result, I've recently created 6 or 7 new all-image modules. They can be found on my repository. The Doré Woodcuts are simply gorgeous; they're in two formats, one as a genbook with simple hiearchical keys, and one in commentary format, verse-range-keyed to the portions referred to by the images. Be aware that these modules are huge -- 70Mbytes. Credit to Peter for doing the legwork of creating the verse ranges I needed for the module import. There is also a Lineage module, consisting of some amazingly useful detail on the lineage of patriarchs and others. Plus there are a few other smaller but still interesting and useful modules. These modules are all in status combination of public domain, publicly available, or copyrighted with permission for non-profit distribution. One thing I see in reviews of Bible software is how much folks like to see maps and photos, and this is my way of trying to contribute to more of that kind of content. One thing that I believe is important is image resizing. Many images are much too large to fit even onto one's screen, much less into a subwindow of a UI that's doing several things at once. GnomeSword takes care of this with a preferences setting for auto-resizing, such that GS will enforce height and width constraints on images so that they fit proportionally within the containing subwindow. One can also then click such an image, which induces GS to spawn an external viewer (ImageMagick's "display") in order to view the image full-size. I've asked DM as to the difficulty of doing something similar in BibleDesktop; also, I am aware that BibleTime does images, but doesn't offer resizing, which is a feature that I wish that crew would consider. WinSword, of course, doesn't yet do images at all, and I really think it needs the ability. --karl _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
