Guys. :) Am 17.03.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Greg Hellings:
> Nathan, > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Nathan Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> >> Hi Sébastien, >> >> While the iPhone only has 128 MB of RAM for running programs, I think >> the 4-16 GB of storage space should be fine for having multiple >> Bibles. >> Though for simplicity of the interface, it might even be a good idea >> to scale back to a single text. >> >> As far as other languages, it may make sense to release a localized >> version of the application with the Bible text, rather than having an >> English UI with any given Bible. >> >> I think downloading modules from within the program is certainly >> possible, but it somewhat complicates the program and perhaps >> shouldn't be an initial requirement. > > The hardest part of that is probably just making sure the sword > library's wrapper links against the libraries on the iPhone for > network access. Actually pulling the files and maintaining them is > likely to be rather straight-forward. However, given that there is a > significant limitation on both the in-memory as well as the on "disk" > storage, an ability to maintain and delete modules is also a wise > plan. > I'm guessing only, sorry for that. However the network layer may look like, should be abstracted in a way that the developer actually doesn't see a difference from the normal Cocoa nerwork stuff. importing <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> should be fully enough to get network going. Using a different framework than on the full Mac OSX makes no sense to me. And after all, the OS on iPhone still is Mac OSX. Manfred >> >> - nathan. >> >> >> >> On 17-Mar-08, at 4:10 AM, Sebastien Koechlin wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:14:09PM -0700, Nathan Youngman wrote: >>>> The iPhone SDK does sandbox you into a directory for your >>>> application, >>>> but you could use the networking layer to retrieve and install >>>> Sword >>>> modules. Perhaps another possibility would be to just preload it >>>> with >>>> a few... I'm not sure of the licensing implications, i.e. with ESV, >>>> God's Word, etc. >>> >>> This will limit distribution to people using English as language. >>> Memory is >>> still limited on the iPhone (and on any flash based memory); so >>> users must >>> be able to drop and install modules to suit their needs. >>> >>> -- >>> Sébastien Koechlin >>> >>> _______________________________________________ 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
