Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

about using designer or qt creator instead of writing all the gui design directly on c++:

Not having used glade when i started to write rapier (because i was not sure how easy glade would be to use with hildon thingy at the time) was something i regretted afterward.

Having a way to handle change in the gui with a 'what you see is what you get' tool makes enhancement and changes much more easier. Especially if you are not familiar with the application in the first place.

Rigth now, i know i would not like to have to add another something in the Rapier preference windows by example, and this sort of change could (and should) be really simple to do with a graphical designer.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Finally getting to testing this, I'll update my results in the coming days.

*Just an FYI to anyone else looking to test, you need to have the Extras-Testing Repository enabled (see explaination here). This repository is meant for testing applications only and you should only enable it when testing or updating software that is in a testing phase. Please make sure to also vote and comment for any software that you are testing so that it can be moved into the Maemo-Extras repository - this is more or less when it becomes officially available and usable to all.

Please make sure that you vote for Rapier in Extras-Dev if you are testing it. This is the only way to get it pushed towards the main Maemo Extras directory so that it can be moved to a maintenance mode and energies be focused towards Katana:
- Download and vote for Rapier

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Rapier Testing 1.1.10

Test 1: Can find application within Application Manager
Result: Yes/Successful
Stepts to Reproduce:
- Make sure to add the Extras-Testing Repository and that it is enabled
- Search for Rapier (easier since there are so many apps to scroll through)

Test 2: Can install from Application Manager
Result: Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- Once the app was found, simply to click and wait for the confirmation screen

Test 3 (#1): Can install (load) Bible from within Rapier
Result: Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- clicked on Rapier in the title bar
- navigated to Manage
- clicked on the tab titled Remote
- scrolled to en (English)
- scrolled to ESV
- clicked ok

#2
- clicked on Rapier in the title bar
- navigated to Manage
- clicked on the tab titled Remote
- scrolled to en (English)
- selected Net-text, Strongs Greek and Hebrew, and TSK
- clicked ok
- back to preferences to change direcrory to home/user/N900/Documents then got a message:
"Problem changing data_path from /home/user/sword to /home/user/MyDocs/.documents: Operation not permitted"

Test 4: Can view text from loaded Bible
Result: Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- once bible was loaded, text displayed fine
- changed to model and navigated to new chapter verse and was successful (UI issues here if using finger-input)

Test 5: Can utilize all application functions
Result(s): Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce
- before I could search, had to build the index for each of the installed modules, but afterwards this worked fine
- navigating chapters was not hard, just not opimized for the UI
- the search has a broken icon (maybe to just make a new one for that feature)

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

i cant find it in the extras test.


what is it called?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

How do you get the strongs number database to work?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

@ceroberts75 - you can follow exactly what I did in the test above you to find Rapier in Extras-Testing

@cardiff-blues - I'm not sure that this is a good question for this specific thread as most who'd use Strong's Numbers would know how to utilize these as references. Ideally, you'd need a Strong's dictionary/lexicon. I'd recommend you to the Rapier homepage for some more specific instructions on how the modules - such as Strong's - work.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

This is great! Thank you (whoever made and ported it) GBU =)

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

I couldn't get "search" to work. It just froze when I tried searching for a word.

UPDATE: SEARCH WORKS! (Sorry!) Just takes longer on common words like "God" or "Lord" etc.
This is wonderful! :)

Also, what should I do about "Storage Directory" and "Strong number database location"???

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Just some thoughts on Katana... some of the items talked about in this video are things that would make *reading* a much better experience on a device like the N900. Panning instead of the endless page, context menus that open on a press-and-hold, and an ability to flow neatly whether portrait or landscape. I've not got the money to do what these folks did below, but I can wireframe and will do again at some point.

http://vimeo.com/8217311

If you will, one should think about the experience of reading, before thinking about that of the features to enhance reading. Its a simpler - and usually much harder to attain - approach.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

To those developers working with/on Katana, Qt4.6 has gone to beta for Maemo 5:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=481774