[bt-devel] Feature planHi!

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:31:17 +0000


> > If you start dragging a module of the groupmanager around you started a
> > "module-drag", but since the edit widget uses dropped verse references it
> > shouldn't accept module-drags !
> > But at te moemnt it does accept module-drags - the first chapter of
> > Genesis is inserted. Module-drags should be denied.
>
> I'll try. But I prefer just to insert nothing, not to deny the drag. (it is
> easier and faster)

> > Solid bars? Whats this? I'm missing a German translation. Do you mean
> > bars like I did in 0.2 ?
> > Using bars it's difficult to show results for more than one module.
>
> I don't know whether it is possible, but I thought of solid color bars
> (like 0.2). Each module would have a bar for each book. Those bars could be
> shifted vertically and/or horizontally, so that they would not hide each
> other. The smallest bar could be left at the bottom line, the next bigger
> bar would be a little more right. 0 size bars would not be displayed. Only
> thoughts, anyway.. You get the idea? The searchanylysis should also include
> some statistics, like the search string ;-) , how many thimes found in each
> module, book etc...

The number of the found items of a module is visible in the search-resultview.

> > > > -Things that have to be discussed for 0.4:
> > > > 	o Plugin support
> > > > 	This is useful for future extensions of BibleTime
> > >
> > > ok. needs a perfect interface.
> >
> > Couldn't we add functions later? I have at the moment no idea of coding
> > plugin support.
>
> I don't either. Who should do it?

I nobody else volunteers I'll try it. I said _try_   ;-)

> > > > 	o Threading: We should try to tread BibleTime so it's usable even
> > > > ehilw searching
> > >
> > > That would be my part - at least to try it. I didn't get an answer in
> > > sword-devel to my question if sword is thread safe yet.
> >
> > I read some pages (Introduction to GNU PTh, a page about threaded KDE
> > programs (attached to this mail)).
> > IMHO it's possible to use threads in BibleTime if QT/KDE have one thread
> > and SWORD has an own one.
> > All queries etc. should be send to the SWORD thread so there are no
> > threads accessing SWORD modules at the same time!
> > But I've no idea.
>
> I prefer using real pthreads. Do we only want to thread the search or more
> functions?

At least the search. At the moment I do not find other things.
Let's finish 0.3final the next daysso we can get started.

--Joachim