On 03/25/2018 09:26 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Better BibleSync support Because BibleSync is a personal project of mine, I've taken particular interest in it for Bishop, because it's the 2nd program to provide it after Xiphos. Troy has already worked out a bunch of kinks I mentioned in the last couple days and it's much better than the previous release. It has a couple warts yet, mostly due to needing to work out how to run a UI that allows the user to pick the speakers to whom Bishop should listen. It's not a trivial problem, for several reasons.
I mentioned to Troy that I consider Bishop's BibleSync interface to be an interesting instance of differing UI perspectives: - Xiphos speaks every time the user navigates somewhere new; Bishop speaks only when the user specifically asks, from the sidebar. (Of course, Xiphos doesn't nav at all until an explicit choice is made; Bishop sort of continuously navs just by scrolling the pane.) - Xiphos auto-navs on receipt by default, with an option to use the verse list as indirect nav; Bishop always uses the verse list. - Xiphos uses the logged-in name to identify the user; Bishop has no inherent sense of the user's name (unless dealing with a permissions issue to retrieve that info from Android), so it has a settings twiddle for setting a friendly name. Both methodologies are perfectly fine and acceptable ways of dealing with putting capability in the user's hands, but they are very different in how that capability is seen. I would be interested in others' opinions, now that there's more than one app that speaks BibleSync. This has also induced me to make a couple small fixes in Xiphos. I think I may finally have the motivation to finish kicking out Xiphos 4.0.8 soon. Sorry for the delay; life has not been fun around my house lately. I was going to say that Troy needs to update the Choosing a Sword App wiki page, to add a new column for Bishop, but I can't find the wiki at all, it's all 404. What's up?
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