Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Umphress
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Barry Drake wrote: > Example: I'm looking at the beginning of John's gospel. It obviously has > some similarity to Genesis 1. I want to look at Gen. 1:1 and John 1:1 at > the same time. Then I want to look at various bible versions for each. > Xiphos lets me

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-15 Thread Greg Hellings
Barry, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi Karl ... > > Karl Kleinpaste wrote: >> >> Saving/restoring all windows would require a good bit of extra >> bookkeeping but we can look into it. > > Thanks. I'm surprised I'm one of few who use the detached window. It might >

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-15 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Karl ... Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Saving/restoring all windows would require a good bit of extra bookkeeping but we can look into it. Thanks. I'm surprised I'm one of few who use the detached window. It might be worth me saying why. Example: I'm looking at the beginning of John's go

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-15 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Barry Drake writes: > A preferred mode of use for me is with the free-floating > bible and commentary windows. It would be great if I could exit the > program and on re-start, return to however I left the layout (this > might be two different bibles plus a commentary). Also, it would be > nice t

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-13 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Sorry, my last email wasn't exactly clear. I know a little more about the problem then what was posted on the email list. I believe the issue comes from reading the home directory from getenv() method calls which return char *. What is encoded in the char * might be interesting to hear about

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-13 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
I believe anything above 127 is re-routed to multi-byte for UTF-8. Only lower ascii is preserved as single-byte David Haslam wrote: These particular accented vowels are part of ANSI, so the reference to UTF8 content was superfluous even through also true. é = ANSI 233 ó = ANSI 243 Does Wind

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-13 Thread David Haslam
These particular accented vowels are part of ANSI, so the reference to UTF8 content was superfluous even through also true. é = ANSI 233 ó = ANSI 243 Does Windows even allow usernames to include UTF8 characters way beyond ANSI 255 ? If so, then is Xiphos 3.0.1 going to be fully compliant with UT

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Barry Drake writes: > I've done the bug report in the way you ask. Thanks. This one is > eminiently repeatable. We'll be taking a look, thanx. To my personal horror, Rubén Gómez of Bible Software Review learned of our release -- I had given him a heads-up about 10 days ago -- and found it comp

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Matthew . Matthew Talbert wrote: It is indeed rather easy to crash it using the detached dialogs. I've done the bug report in the way you ask. Thanks. This one is eminiently repeatable. God bless, Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed ch

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread David Haslam
I reported the problem only after rebooting and restarting Xiphos more than once. Matthew has emailed me directly for more details about any Gtk stuff I may have installed. -- David Karl Kleinpaste-2 wrote: > > David Haslam writes: >> I have installed the Windows version of Xiphos, but found

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread Matthew Talbert
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Barry Drake wrote: > > Hi there .. > > Karl Kleinpaste wrote: >> >> We have released Xiphos (née GnomeSword) version 3. > > Following on from my last posting, I discovered the 'sync with main' and > 'stay in sync' menuitems on the free-floating bible window.

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there .. Karl Kleinpaste wrote: We have released Xiphos (née GnomeSword) version 3. Following on from my last posting, I discovered the 'sync with main' and 'stay in sync' menuitems on the free-floating bible window. The first works OK. The second: 'stay in sync', reliably bombs out o

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-12 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Karl Karl Kleinpaste wrote: David Haslam writes: I have installed the Windows version of Xiphos, but found that none of the branches in the sidebar would expand.> This is a known problem, a timing issue in GTK. If you simply restart Xiphos, it will almost certainly be fine, unle

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-11 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
David Haslam writes: > I have installed the Windows version of Xiphos, but found that none of > the branches in the sidebar would expand. This is a known problem, a timing issue in GTK. If you simply restart Xiphos, it will almost certainly be fine, unless startup time is very long. This is doc

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-11 Thread David Haslam
I have installed the Windows version of Xiphos, but found that none of the branches in the sidebar would expand. I previously had installed the recent beta version of GnomeSword for Windows, and did not encounter this bug with that. I uninstalled this prior to installing Xiphos. I have Windows

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-10 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there . Karl Kleinpaste wrote: We have released Xiphos (née GnomeSword) version 3. The more I use this app. the better it gets. Each time I've thought 'wouldn't it be nice if ', I find there's alredy a way of doing exactly what I want it to do! It must be three or four years si

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Matthew Talbert
I'm glad you like it. > I'm really pleased with the way it works. It seems to mess up the display > slightly when I show NetNotes in the commentary window. I assume that this > is the display 'todo' that was mentioned in Karl's initial post. No, I don't think it is. Could you describe exactly

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Matthew .. Matthew Talbert wrote: In addition to what Karl said, the module manager itself will tell you exactly where it is installing modules to, and will allow you to choose which location should be used. Look at "Install Destination" under "Configure". Thanks for that. I now know w

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Karl .. Karl Kleinpaste wrote: If you've got other Sword stuff installed there, then you should have had a SWORD_PATH environment variable set to it by whatever previous application package you have installed I've simply copied my Sword installation from one box to the next for years!

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Matthew Talbert
In addition to what Karl said, the module manager itself will tell you exactly where it is installing modules to, and will allow you to choose which location should be used. Look at "Install Destination" under "Configure". Matthew ___ sword-devel mailin

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Barry Drake writes: > Congratulations This is fantastic work! I'm mystified about one > thing though: where does the Windows version put its modules? I > installed to the default: .../program files/crosswire/xiphos > It didn't find my existing Sword modules. These are at: C:\Bible\SWORD\

Re: [sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Karl . Karl Kleinpaste wrote: We have released Xiphos (née GnomeSword) version 3. Congratulations This is fantastic work! I'm mystified about one thing though: where does the Windows version put its modules? I installed to the default: .../program files/crosswire/xiphos It di

[sword-devel] Xiphos 3.0.0 released

2009-02-09 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
We have released Xiphos (née GnomeSword) version 3. I would summarize what's new and different and cool, but the list is so long, it's better just to read the release notes. The single biggest deal is the Windows port. It has a glitch or two, and doesn't yet have the good display engine (so we d