[bt-devel] looking good

Brook Humphrey bt-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:34:47 -0700


On Tuesday 17 April 2001 10:54, you wrote:
> Hi Brook!
>
> > After I reinstalled with some newer packages from mandrake8.0 pre release
> > Bibletime compiles and looks good. I really like the interlinear
> > functionality.
>
> Thank you!
>
> > Because of the way I have it set up all of the modules are installed even
> > the forign ones that I can't read. It took me a while to figure out the
> > interlinear functionality because I wasn't holding down my mouse button.
> > A text would be selected and the new one whould come up but at first it
> > seemed random. Whith a large number of modules installed a scrolling
> > select box may be better for this.
>
> A combo box takes too much space.
> And I think people do normally only have the modules installed, which they
> can read.
> But this should be solved in 1.1.
>
> > The lookup from the right click doesn't work  for bibles, lexicons or
> > comentaries.
>
> This doesn't work in pages displaying more than one module (interlinear).
> That's because we use a backported Qt3 widget, bt I'm sure this will be
> solved later.

Fair enough also I just tried it again not using interliear mode and it 
worked. One thought though the commentaries and lexicons should be able to 
look up referenced verses in the bibles but right now the right click only 
asks to look up in the lexicons


>
> > And the personal commentary doesn't work. It seems to but when you save
> > the comments it just doesn't save them. All of my sword mods are in my
> > home directory so it is not a permisions problem.
>
> This problem is fixed in the current CVS of Sword.
>
> > I think this is all I noticed. All else looks good.
>
> Thank you!
> Joachim