[mobile-devel] future ideas for And-Bible

[SonWon]

I like a circular history of 255 spots with the ability to move backwards or
forwards.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Gordon Diamant <gordon at gdiamant.com> wrote:

> I would find a "longer" (remembering previous sessions) history useful.
>  OliveTree displays history in folders by date.  Maybe the bookmark labels
> could be used for this somehow?
> Thanks.
> ;;;Gordon
>
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, SonWon <sonwon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> This morning I ran into the problem where I could not scroll to the last
>> verse on my HTC EVO.  I think the solution is to calculate the number of
>> lines the last verse uses.  Then take the screen height in lines minus the
>> number of line for the last verse which should equal the number of lines to
>> pad the bottom.  Or another option would be to just force the last verse to
>> stop scrolling when it reaches the top of the screen and pad enough empty
>> lines to get there.
>>
>> Another idea is for split screens by holding the tab and swiping down,
>> swipe up to go back to full screen.
>>
>> My last idea is the back button would go back to the previous location but
>> a press and hold would end the program.
>>
>> O and the history should allow me to move not just backwards but also
>> forwards.  Sometimes I move backwards to check something and then want to go
>> forward again to where I was.
>>
>> And thank you very much for all your work on this reader.  I'll be reading
>> my Bible more again.  :)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>
>>> *Chinese Search*
>>> The intention is to add Chinese Search.  The LuceneAnalyzer used by
>>> JSword to do Chinese search requires a lot of memory and consequently did
>>> not work on mobile phones so I disabled it but we need to find an
>>> alternative Chinese LuceneAnalyzer with lower memory requirements.
>>>
>>> This need keeps slipping down my list partly because of the difficulty I
>>> would have handling anything Chinese characters and being able to tell if a
>>> search was working correctly or not.  It would be great if somebody who
>>> knows a little Chinese and Java were to pick this up with support from
>>> myself and Matthew.
>>>
>>> *Strong's ref Search*
>>> I am planning to add a link to the bottom of Strong's ref pages that
>>> would cause a search for all occurrences of that ref in the current bible.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 1 February 2011 01:47, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Martin,
>>>>
>>>> Great work on and-bible! I have been real busy lately, and so rather
>>>> silent on the list, but have been reading everything.
>>>>
>>>> I second the highlighting; that would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Also, the idea of being able to insert personal notes connected to a
>>>> verse is great, or at least to a chapter. I mentioned this before, but at
>>>> the time you acted like that might be a long way off. The iOS Mantis Bible
>>>> app does this really well, and I would like to be able to do something like
>>>> this in And-Bible, so as not to switch between apps... :)
>>>>
>>>> The new grid is a definite improvement. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> As to Chinese search, I joined the jsword-devel list as was recommended,
>>>> hoping to catch some chatter on there about Chinese language issues, but it
>>>> seems to have instantly died down. I am wondering what was learned at that
>>>> time. I am still a little curious why Chinese search cannot be done entirely
>>>> on single characters, using "AND"s and what-nots to tie a more complicated
>>>> search together... I don't think there is any real reason to attempt to
>>>> search via pinyin phrase, which of course would be much more complicated (at
>>>> least according to my understanding, which may be goofed) to implement. I
>>>> don't think anyone who uses Chinese seriously would really need to search
>>>> the Chinese text via pinyin.
>>>>
>>>> Also, it would be great to be able to search text according to Strong's
>>>> ref numbers, to compare translation and context of the underlying
>>>> Greek/Hebrew text. I do this all the time in Bibletime/Xiphos. I saw someone
>>>> else mentioned this functionality.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for the hard work you've put into this. It is really
>>>> shaping up to be a nice program, and works well.
>>>>
>>>> Matthew Patenaude
>>>>
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