On 23 April 2010 04:01, John Austin <gpl.programs.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > Xulsword (pronounced zool-sword) is now available for download and > collaboration at: >
for my taste it's a bit too close to Xiphos. But maybe it's just me =) > http://code.google.com/p/xulsword/ > > Xulsword is a Bible reading and study tool which is easy and fun to > use, yet very powerful at the same time. The marriage of Xulrunner > with SWORD provides the best of both worlds by combining the power and > speed of C++ in the back-end SWORD engine with the quick and easy > programming of a Javascript front-end and CSS/Xul UI. It is designed > for quick internationalization, and potential users also include those > who are not experienced at using a computer, those who might be new to > the Bible, and those who may not have (or may not want to use) an > internet connection. > Xiphos is currently using xulrunner-embedding with Gtk+ toolkit. Xulsword using plain XULRunner for all UI rendering? Looks good =) > Xulsword may be particularly suited to places where the printed Bible > in a people's language is hard to find. > > Currently compiled for Windows, this XULRunner based program could > also be compiled without too much effort for Linux and Mac (any > takers?). > Haven't looked at it, yet. It might be "compiled without too much effort" but packaging properly does take quite a bit of effort of all XUL-based apps on unix like platforms. It's non-trivial. > New contributors are welcome, see issues list. > > Working together for His glory, > John > _______________________________________________ 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
