The phrase "companion modules" was coined last January at BibleTech when several of us were debating additional capabilities in which Wycliffe folks have an interest.
This past Friday, I implemented a beginning of this concept in GnomeSword. The idea is that some modules come as a pair. The best example at hand is NET Bible's NETtext with their NETnotes. Generally speaking, if you open one of these, you also want the other, since the footnote indicators in NETtext reference content in NETnotes. I'm using my own builds of these modules, but the concept is applicable to any pair: With "Companion=NETnote" in the Bible's .conf and the opposite reference in the other, GnomeSword now notices these bits when the user opens either. It offers a dialog question as to whether the user wants to open the other as well. This will be part of the next release of GS, probably later this month. Importantly, this has no implication for the engine. It's entirely an application-level facility. For Wycliffe specifically, it will need refinement because one thing they were looking for is that they produce commentaries which contain both per-verse discussion of content as well as more general discussion surrounding a range of verses. It was suggested that they separate these into what was called the "fast" -vs- "slow" commentaries: The per-verse part is the fast commentary, while the general discussion is slow, not changing with every verse. They would like to be able to bring up both at once, one in GS' commentary pane and one as a separate window. Obviously, what I've just done isn't exactly that, but it was simple (~30 lines) and it provides some initial understanding about the idea. I'd be interested in others' views on similar concepts, or how you think this could be better supported. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
