[sword-devel] wxWindows Sword Viewer

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Jason,
	The screenshot looks like you're well on your way!  I'm excited.  Know 
that you're welcome to any of CrossWire's services, including a 
wxsword-devel list if you would like.

	-Troy.



Jason Turner wrote:
> 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
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