[bt-devel] Proposed change for BibleTime

[Gary Holmlund]

I take back the comment about the change being in the backend of 
BibleTime. It is in Sword. I don't know what other areas outside of 
BibleTime might benefit from it.

Gary


On 09/22/2018 08:10 AM, Gary Holmlund wrote:
>
> I have the functionality I need now by post processing the html. The 
> benefit would be cleaner code. The logic would not be in two places if 
> the post processing is not needed. Since the code that would have to 
> change is in the "backend" of BibleTime I believe it would be specific 
> to BibleTime. It is on the list of things I would like to have done, 
> but there are several other functionality issues that need to be 
> re-implemented because of the changes from QWebEngine to QML Listview 
> for display of modules.
>
> Gary
>
>
> On 09/22/2018 12:37 AM, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
>> Would there be any benefit for you and would this benefit reach 
>> further than bibletime if the engine produced the rich text you need?
>>
>> Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird 
>> autocorrects.
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [bt-devel] Proposed change for BibleTime
>> From: Gary Holmlund
>> To: BibleTime development ,Greg Hellings
>> CC:
>>
>>
>>     Greg,
>>
>>     It is still rendered to html and then sent to QML Text which
>>     understands
>>     displaying rich text  (a subset of html). I am doing some minor post
>>     processing of the html before it goes to QML Text. This mostly
>>     relates
>>     to href tags.
>>
>>     Gary
>>
>>
>>     On 09/21/2018 08:51 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>     > Gary,
>>     >
>>     > I'm curious - if you're no longer using the QWebEngine widget, what
>>     > are you using to format the text? How is it being rendered?
>>     >
>>     > --Greg
>>     > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:53 AM Gary Holmlund 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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