[bt-devel] Proposed change for BibleTime

KeviNaomi Shenk mailbox at kevinshenk.com
Fri Sep 21 17:35:51 MST 2018


This has been my number one wish for BibleTime. Thanks for your investment
in this direction!
--
Kevin


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 9:53 AM Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jaak,
>
> Thank you for the approval and the suggestions. Perhaps you will have
> other suggestions as this feature develops.
>
> Gary
>
>
> On 09/20/2018 11:47 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> > Hi, Gary!
> >
> > On 21.09.2018 05:25, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> >> I wanted your approval before going any farther.
> > Thank you for the update. You have my approval. As you have probably
> > already noticed, I'm not currently a (very) active BibleTime developer,
> > and I don't want to get in your way with things. So feel free to go
> > ahead with this feature and merge/rebase to master when ready.
> >
> >
> >> It is implemented for the "read" windows. Most features are implemented.
> >> The main missing features now relate to the context menus (Find, copy,
> >> etc.). These are not a problem to finish. They just require some more
> >> time. Optionally we could eliminate all usage of QWebEngine by working
> >> on the MAG view, the personal commentary editing, the search dialog, the
> >> about dialog, etc.
> > I compiled and ran BibleTime from your mv2 branch, and it looks good.
> > One glitch I noticed is that the BtBibleKeyWidget did not update the
> > location when I scrolled the view using the scrollbar.
> >
> > You might also want to think about improving scrolling with mouse, e.g.
> > change the cursor to a grab cursor when the user can grab the document
> > to scroll, perhaps implement some means for faster scrolling, and
> > perhaps even automatic scrolling. For example, in Okular one can grab
> > the document with the cursor and then scroll it with moving the cursor
> > even up to the top or bottom edge of the screen beyond which scrolling
> > continues so that the cursor appears at the opposite of the screen still
> > holding the grab. Okular also has the nice feature of automatic
> > scrolling, which can be toggled and incrementally acceleratedor
> > decelerated by the Shift+Up or Shift+Down key combinations.
> >
> > J
> >
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