[sword-devel] wxWindows Sword Viewer

[Jason Turner]

Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on the status of the wxWindows sword 
viewer that I have been working on.

The project is hosted on sourceforge at 
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/christiangame

It can be got by cvs with:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/christiangame login 
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/christiangame co 
biblestudy-current

I'm using an old project of mine that never went anywhere, that is why the 
project name is "christiangame".

The look and feel that I was aiming for was that of a web browser, allowing 
for multiple windows, and multiple tabs within each window. The only 
difference being that I am allowing each window to be split into up to four 
frames, each containing tabs. I have all of the main functionality for tabs 
working including detaching tabs, adding, deleting and duplicating.

A screen shot is available here (gtk2):

http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/christiangame/biblestudy1.jpg

The goal that I stated earlier was to make a windows version nice enough that 
it might even encourage a non-christian to read the bible. I'm adding to that 
the goal of making 3 seperate ISO images one in the ~50MB credit-card size, 
(if you haven't seen credit card cd's, here is some info: 
http://www.memorex.com/products/category_display.php?cid=10) one in the 
~210MB 8CM size and a ~700MB full size. Each with selected modules installed 
that can be run directly from CD. With the goal being that CD's can be used 
as witnessing tools and distributed freely, perhaps even one day put beside 
the AOL cd's at your local gocery store.

The goal of using them as witnessing tools leads me to the next goal of having 
some way to provide the user with a "Bible Study" a selection of verses with 
associated comments that can be used to guide the user through some verses. 
Specifically I see this being used in the "run from cd" mode to lead the 
recepient of the CD through verses on salvation. Perhaps ending with 
"1-800-NEED-HIM" or some similar resource. 

What needs to be done?

I'm horrible at making icons and to give this a polished look there will be a 
need for some good ones. Currently it is only tested on GCC-Linux-GTK2, and 
needs to look good on Windows. None of the "Bible Study" functionality has 
been started. Code is as yet undocumented :). Only VerseKey and 
Module->SetKey() based lookups work right now, so general books cannot be 
read at all and daily devotionals are kind of a kludge, knowing that you have 
to enter, i.e. "01.25". Personally, with the vision that I have in mind I see 
appearance as a bigger concern than the technical features, so automatically 
looking up strongs references, for example, would come later.

Anyhow, I'll stop rambling now.

I have a real desire to see this completed and will be spending a lot of time 
on it, anyone who is interested please join in. I suggest that any 
development discussion about this new project take place on sourceforge. I'll 
set up a mailing list if need be.

Thanks,
Jason Turner