[bd-users] Saving the current view

[DM Smith]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Carl Peterson wrote:

> DM,
>
> As far as ideas, in completely (or, at least, mostly unrelated)  
> lines of thought, here are some things that I'd *really* like to  
> see in a future version:
>
> *Add "next chapter"/"previous chapter" buttons, or allow some sort  
> of scrolling functionality so that if I pick a chapter from the  
> pick list, I can quickly navigate to the next or previous. I've  
> used both the history and selection expansion buttons, but they  
> really don't do the job as smoothly.

Good idea. I think that 2 small buttons on each side of the quick  
picker for previous/ next book/chapter would be good. And fairly  
easy. Would there be any issues with moving it all to the ToolBar?

>
>
> *I really liked the fact that commentaries were brought out of the  
> sidebar. Is it possible to bring the other stuff out, as well. Some  
> modules (I'm thinking particularly of the Bible atlas module) are  
> not really usable in the limited screen real-estate of the sidebar  
> view pane. Or, as an alternative, allow the view pane to resize  
> images to fit.

Did you know that you can grab the border of the "Reference" sidebar  
and drag it all the way to the left? That way, you only see the  
commentary, dictionary,  gen book. If you look at the screenshots at  
the Bible Desktop website, there is one showing the Bible Atlas in  
that fashion.

We can easily make this more obvious, like we do for the Passage  
Sidebar (but having it visible by default.), which has little  
controls which allow you to quickly show/hide/expand the passage  
sidebar.

As to bring out the other books, it is not a good idea to bring out  
the commentaries in that fashion. It was done as a stop gap mechanism  
so that you could search them. The problem is that many Commentaries  
have one entry per chapter or passage and all the verses tie to it.  
When you view the chapter, you get each verse (i.e. the same text  
repeated over and over again.)

One of the changes that we have talked about, but it is a ways out is  
to represent the Reference side bar's book list as a tree, with  
search results under each node. That way when you do a Bible search  
or lookup, it would do a parallel background search against each  
reference, populating the tree.

Likewise, when you search the current BibleView, it would search all  
the Bibles and populate the Passage Sidebar with results as a tree  
with Bibles with results as the parent of the parts.


>
>
> Keep up the good work!
> Carl Peterson
>
> On 6/27/07, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> If you or anyone else has other ideas or questions, please reply!!!
>
> In His Service,
>         DM Smith
>

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