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<br><div><div>On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Carl Peterson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">DM,<br><br>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:<br><br>*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. </blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>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?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>*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. </blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>Keep up the good work!<br>Carl Peterson<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DM Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:dmsmith555@yahoo.com">dmsmith555@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>If you or anyone else has other ideas or questions, please reply!!!<br><br>In His Service, <br> DM Smith<br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>