<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Manfred,<div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>I can only say amen! to the words written by David. I'll try to test it too.</div><div><br></div><div>Jónatas</div><div><br><div><div>Em 2008/12/16, ŕs 19:00, <a href="mailto:sword-devel-request@crosswire.org">sword-devel-request@crosswire.org</a> escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Manfred,<br>I can't wait to install this on my mac later today. I will keep you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>posted on my findings. Thanks for putting your time into this, its great<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>to see MacSword alive again.<br>--<br>David<br><br><br>Manfred Bergmann wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">After half a year of work on the next major release of MacSword I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would like to release still an early alpha version to the public.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">All version numbers lower than 2.0 are considered alpha versions.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The following things are implemented and are considered working except<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">many, many minor issues:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- workspace host window which enables tabs for all major views (Bible<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(Combi view), Commentary, Dictionary, Genbook)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- single host window which can hold only one view of the above<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mentioned (tabs can be detached from workspace host and opened in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">single space host)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- combi view that can display bible views in parallel (as many as fit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on the screen)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- combi view also can host commentaries (and later dictionaries and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">genbooks)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- all views that display module data/text are based on NSTextView<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">instead of WebKit. NSTextView and the text processing system of Cocoa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">allows much more posibilities for text editing and processing than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">WebKit. The drawback is that the HTML data has to be converted to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">something which NSTextView can display (internally) which costs some<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">time. But displaying 4-5 books at a time should be fast enough.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- all parallel bible and commentary views in combi view are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">synchronized. This means that while scrolling a bible or commentary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">text all other views are synchronizing itself to the currently visible<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">verse. ATM the views are synchronized to the verse displayed at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">top line. More functionality is planned for the future here.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- HUD preview window which shows cross-refs, refs, notes, strongs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(more will come)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- indexed search based on Apple's SearchKit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- background indexer which automatically indexes all modules types.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- in view search through NSTextView's Find panel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- automatic application updater based on Sparkle open source Cocoa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">framework<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- module installer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- bookmarks manager<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- session saving and loading (though the session is currently saved in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/tmp which will be deleted after restart)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There are also many, many things missing that will hopefully be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">implemented next year:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- a wizzard for the first run which guides the user to get some<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">modules in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- localization<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- personal commentary editing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- improvements on the UI in terms of context menus, images, improving<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">overall ease of use<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- removing all the rough edges<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- display options, fonts, colours<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- search options (range search and such, maybe a wizzard for creating<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a query statement)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- interconnection between the data and all the views<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- daily devotions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- word statistics<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- timeline view<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The application will not be made available at SourceForge yet.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For everyone interested in testing and giving feedback please have a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">look at some screenshots or download the application.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The application will only work on Mac OSX 10.5.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It is possible to use MacSword 1.4 (and below) and MacSword 2 in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">parallel. None of your data should get lost but backups of your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">bookmarks and other files would not hurt.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Screenshots:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Bibles.png">http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Bibles.png</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Genbook.png">http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/Genbook.png</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/IndexedSearch.png">http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/IndexedSearch.png</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Application:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/MacSword-1.8.1.app.zip">http://idisk.mac.com/manfred.bergmann-Public/MacSword-1.8.1.app.zip</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any help for example for finding appropriate images actually for all<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">parts of the application, finding bugs or giving opinions are very<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">welcome.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Manfred</blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>