[bt-devel] Bible Time Development - Search Dialog

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Quoting Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> I have checked in the changes for the search dialog. I will work on
>> the config dialog next unless someone else is working on it.
>>     
> Thanks for your first contributions!
>
> The config dialog is all yours. If you start working on the font  
> chooser I suggest you consider my thoughts on it:  
> http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/BibleTime1Refactoring#Ideas_from_Eeli.2C_explanation_needed
>
> We just need something which works so you are free to keep the current  
> functionality and layout (or modify them slightly), but it would be  
> great if we could make it better. The current implementation is not  
> very good for our purposes because it may show something completely  
> different than the real text. You can't tell how the Hebrew font works  
> for Hebrew if you can see only "...brown fox..." in the preview.  
> Additionally, IIRC the preview doesn't use the html view and the html  
> engine may actually use different font.
>
> --Eeli Kaikkonen
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I finished changing the config dialog to use BtConfigDialog instead of 
KPageDialog. I am starting to work on the font chooser. I think it would 
be best to do it in 2 steps.

First, write a replacement for KFontChooser using QWebView for the text 
preview area. I have already started and it does not look hard.

Second, consider and make the enhancements desired for the font chooser.

One question I have on the enhancements is what text to use. Perhaps it 
could be a verse that is entered using the tr() function so it can 
easily be translated for each language. I would have to set the 
translation language for the specific phrase in the program. Will this 
method work right for Hebrew and Greek text? I will have to study this 
some to know if it can be made to work.

Gary