[sword-devel] Options and Features

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Dear Manfred,

Yes, you can operate this way.  BibleCS just has both a main menu 
section and also a toolbar for the most popular options.  Options aren't 
turned on or off based on specific modules, so we don't really check to 
see if any module has a feature when turning things on/off-- kindof. 
There might be one or two exceptions.  Module Features are really not 
1:1 with Options.  For example.  HebrewDefs might be a feature of a 
lexicon module to advertise that it can give Hebrew definitions.  Global 
Option strings and 'OptionTip's are values which can be shown to the 
user after i18n with a call to: 
LocaleMgr::getSystemLocaleMgr()->translate(option_or_tip), though the 
locale files haven't been updated with translations for them.

I believe Bibletime lets you turn options on and off on a per module 
basis, but there is no facility in the engine to help with this.  We've 
talked about it and decided to disagree about the best way.  When I 
study, I either want to see strongs numbers or not.  I want to see xrefs 
or not.  I don't want to manage all of these options individually per 
module.  A quick toolbar click on or off for everything is best for me, 
and that's how the engine ended up.  I understand people study 
differently than me.

Hope this helps.

	-Troy.



Manfred Bergmann wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Some API questions:
> 
> There are features per module and global options.
> So for example if I want to show strong's numbers I need to check  
> whether the module supports stong's by checking the feature:
> getConfig().has("Feature", "StrongsNumbers")
> 
> Then, when I want to have stongs rendered (in the HTML output) I need  
> to enable the global option?
> setGlobalOption("Strong's Numbers", "On")
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do?
> 
> 
> I noticed the feature string constants are dofferent than the options  
> constants. Is there a reason for that?
> 
> Regards,
> Manfred
> 
> 
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