Is this a request for a preference to set a user-desired colour for the verse number? Also, what specifically are you asking for when wanting to assign a colour for a "section"?

you will see blue color for the section "Salutation" and gray color for the verse no.

Ahh, interesting. I'll think on it.

iPhone

ahh, that will require some optimisation of the locale code. I'll take a look and see what I can do – currently, if I load all the locales at launch time, it takes much longer for the app to launch! I've already optimised some of it, perhaps there are other bits I can improve to make this happen?

Is this using a search index that you have created yourself or is it a search index that you downloaded from within PocketSword? And which module is it for?

AndBible uses JSword, which has much richer indexing and uses a Chinese analyzer for the text. SWORD uses StandardAnalyzer, which is appropriate only for some latinate languages. This is a request that SWORD have analysis based upon the language/script of the module.

A bit more info: most Lucene analyzers use whitespace to delineate words. This is not appropriate in some languages, such as Chinese. There are a variety of techniques to index Chinese, but to simplify: Suppose that there A, B, C were three Chinese characters and were given as ABC. This would index A, B, AB, C, and BC. In searching for AC, this would look for A, C and AC.

With the various whitespace analyzers, there would be no result. The text contained ABC and only ABC would find it.

The search index is created by PocketSword itself and it is a Chinese Module.

Thanks for the clarification, I will look into it.

Ok, I need some more clarification about this. You say that "The search index is created by PocketSword itself". However, PocketSword cannot create a search index – testing revealed that this would take a very long time and so I never added that code. So, how are you creating your search index? Is this in regard to the module that you sent me by email?

@DM thanks for that information, PS is still lacking in non-whitespace searches, such as Chinese.

It is my misunderstanding. The search index is created by "The sword Project" and I placed it into the module.

iPhone

I'd love to get this in for the release after next – I've almost finished work on v1.1 now, so it won't make it into that release.

That's great! I hope Manfred Bergmann is open to do something so You can sync Notes via Wifi with MacSword!

How about including an option to sync to Google Notebook or Evernote?

Note syncing would be really great...

Btw.: PocketSword is the best iPhone Bible app in my opinion.

Is it possible to have the notes work independently of the Bible section? It would be great if you could have your notes open and be able to move from one verse to another so you could add reference to other verses.

@Markus I second that!

make it sync with iCloud!

iCloud sounds great & we'll be looking into that after the iPad version is released.

iPhone

I need to change some of the underlying code in order to get this to work. So I'll start to look into that after the v1.1 release

i guess parts of http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/PS-5 ( reading one translation and jumping to another on that supports strong's numbers) would be supported by this this feature...

i would suggest swiping left and right would give you the different translations/books that are scrolled to the same place as the visible one.

i know the swiping left and right are in 1.1 (http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/PS-4) meant to change chapters, that is good too.
however, that could also be done as ticket PS-4 suggests, or, initially with
a) the buttons that are there now
b) detecting when you have scrolled entirey to the top or entirely to the botton (when the rubber-banding effect starts) you would jump to either the end of the previous chapter or the beginning of the next chapter (depending on if you are at the top or bottom when this happens)

Hmm, if it would change with the rubber-banding method, it might need to detect two occurrences of the rubber banding, since the first time you may just have reached the bottom and wish to read until the end, but if you would "scroll" down an additional time past the boundary it could take you to the next page

I don't exactly understand what Christoffer mean with "rubber-banding", but I'm very influenced by reading by my Bible first on Palm (first Bible Reader by Asaisoft and then PalmBible?+) and now on iPhone with Olivetree for many years. I also made the first Svenska Folkbibeln (swedish) for Palm 2003.

I like to read two versions of the Bible parallel, I also want to have the possibility to use the parallel window for Commentaries (mine or others).

It would be great to have the possibility to have KJV with Strongs numbers (or any other Bible with Strong numbers) in the parallel windows, so you can choose any Strong hyperlink number and then have the translation/commentary (it's possible within MacSword)! I've seen that the SDK have a possibility to have Pop Up windows.

It would be good if the parallel windows could be read in both Portrait or Landscape and could be locked in that position, but that should maybe be another topic? See pictures!

Pictures of Portrait and Landscape in Olivetree and locking of rotation of screen.

Some mindstorming in photoshop...

How is it with readability in olivetree when you have the iPhone in portrait view and have two versions open?
is it too small or is it ok?

i added some thoughts as http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/secure/attachment/10533/paralell.jpg
what i would feel would be good for me and when studying the bible.

(the "second" version has strongs numbers, and when you press a word you get the explanation opened..)

As you see on the pictures above from Olivetree the parallel view in Portrait is under each other, and that's bad. On my old Palm you could only use it in Portrait, but the two parallel windows are beside each other.

I think myself that Bible Readers with parallel windows shall ALWAYS be besides each other, both in Portrait and in Landscape!

But I prefer reading the Bible parallel in Landscape, and want the possibility to lock it in Landscape even if I lay on my pillow and read it on the side, so it won't use the iPhone automatic rotation.

I also like a lot that the sizes between the windows are adjustable, I prefer to have the window I'm actually reading a little bit larger then the other.

Re mindstorming in Photoshop: Something like that will be excellent!

I would really love to have parallel panes that sync like Tecarta or olive tree's last version. I currently use the olive tree hcsb study bible with study notes in one adjustable pane and the text in the other. Also- you have the first bible I have seen with Chinese pinyin. I would love to have pinyin in one and characters in the other. Better yet- an option for 3 panes on iPad and have english, pinyin, and characters in three panes- Wow- that would rock!

What do you think Nic Carter?

I don't know it it helps but I just added this in the last release of And Bible. Users were really keen on this feature.

There is a demo video here: http://tinyurl.com/SplitDemo

The code is all Java so won't be any use but the video might give some thoughts regarding design.

I am using iPad2

This is a really frustrating bug that we are currently looking into to try to solve!
However, we have discovered that the OT isn't being deleted, but simply refusing to load. So you don't need to delete the ESV and re-download it, instead you can quit the app and force quit it and launch it again and the whole of the ESV should be there again!

More details about forcing an app to close is available at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5137?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

And we're hoping to have a new version of PocketSword out as soon as this issue is solved

iOS 6.1.2 on iPhone 4S.

Hi Marco, which devotional are you reading when you see this?
Those devotionals that are simply Bible readings (such as BibleCompanion, OneYearRead or MCheyne) will make the Bible reading open in the Bible tab. For all other devotionals it will appear in the small window at the bottom. I have picked the devotionals that seem most appropriate for the verse to appear in the Bible tab, but I am open to suggestions of others to add to this list!

Actually, I rolled my own using "For the Love of God" by D. A. Carson for my own personal use. Carson's work is a slight modification of MCheyne along with his own excellent commentary. Each day's commentary is a several paragraph commentary so maximum screen real estate is desirable.

Since Carson currently offers it freely online on his site (thegospelcoalition.org), I've contacted him requesting permission to redistribute it (hopefully via crosswire) and am awaiting a response.

Contact me offline if you're interested in details about this devotional.

iOS 6.1.2 on iPhone 4S. (Using 1.4.3, but will only allow me to select as high as 1.4.2)

It sounds like your usage is similar to mine! The dictionary was added first, hence it's on the main page. However, I need to make it so that you can move the buttons around.
Also, thanks for letting me know about this tracker not knowing about v1.4.3 – I've fixed that now

Thanks for considering doing so!

yup. sigh

/me washes his hands of it and reassigns the bug.

iOS 6.1.2 on iPhone 4S. (Using 1.4.3, but will only allow me to select as high as 1.4.2)

Ahh, interesting suggestion!
It would be trivial for me to hard-code this so that you could switch on "auto night mode" & then it would be in night mode from, say, 8pm until 6:30am? But ideally you'd want this to be connected with another setting so each person could set their own times...

Let me think more about this
Thanks!

Sometimes I have bible studies till 9 or 10pm but sometimes in bed by then so I don't know. It just occurred to me that there is an ambient light sensor - perhaps that could be an option along with a time selection option. And/or perhaps a simple sun/moon toggling icon as a manual override.

I implemented an auto-night-mode feature in And Bible using the light sensor. If it is dark And Bible switches to Night mode automatically, if user has selected Settings/Auto night mode. Experiment to see what light sensor values you get in different environments and then pick a value, below which you switch to night mode.

I like this because sometimes I wake up at night and want to read the bible in bed but am almost blinded by the normal black-on-white screen (try it). This feature saved my eyes.