Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

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Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Hi,
I am stoked to find this.

Test 1: Can find application within Application Manager
Result: Yes/Successful
Stepts to Reproduce:
- Enable Extras-Testing Repository
- Scroll down to Rapier and install

Test 2: Can install from Application Manager
Result: Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- Click on Rapier and follow steps as normal to download and install application

Test 3 (#1): Can install (load) Bible from within Rapier
Result: Yes/Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- Create shortcut to Rapier on desktop
- Click on Rapier
- Application starts but the icon for Search is missing
- click on Rapier in the title bar
- Scroll down Manage
- Manage Modules appears, click on Remote tab then Refresh
- Finger swipe scrolling doesn't work. I have to use down arrow.
- Select, AKJV, ASV, ESV, KJV, UKJV. Hit ok
- Building installing 5 bibles does indeed take a loooooong time.
- Operation Successful!

Test 4: Can view text from loaded Bible
Result: Yes / Successful
Steps to Reproduce:
- Click on Title Menu (now changed to the current loaded version)
- Go to Modules and select any version I need.

Test 5: Can utilize all application functions
Result(s): Yes
Steps to Reproduce
- Click on Menu -> Select Manage
- In the Installed tab, select all 5 versions to be indexed
- Again, this indeed takes a looong time.
- Once index has been created Click on broken search icon enter text.
- Search works and is non-case sensitive.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

I got stuck. :( I d/led rapier and installed it. Then I needed to find a Bible - and had no idea what I supposed to do next. (So I ininstalled) I'd really, really like to test this. Amnyone willing to guide a poor lost bear through the process of getting a sword module Bible onto My Mo?

Pretty please with furry paws?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Hi. I ran into the same problem when I was testing. You have to go to...

Rapier -> Manage -> Remote (click on 'refresh' to get list of bibles)

then select and install. My notes above are kinda ugly but if you follow what I did you should be able to get bibles installed and working. Have fun.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Thanks! Does it install them from there or can I only ever use them via the web? I am trying to use the 'Common Bible' and all I am seeing at the moment is a string of numbers - regardless of what book, chapter or verse I choose. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Sword (the software "engine" in use here) works by installing "modules" that are created from different bibles and bible commentaries. Once it is installed, it's on your N900.

Whether the "Common Bible" is an available module, i couldn't say: but there are many.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Once a module is installed, you do not have to install it again.

"all I am seeing at the moment is a string of numbers " could be because what you installed was actually a commentary module and not a bible module as such.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

I think for some module either the Rapier or Sword has issue or the module has problem or not compatible.

I've isntalled a few bibles including 2 Chinese, AKJV, ASV, ISV (International Standard Version)

All others are fine except ISV shows up as strings of numbers, which I believe are a list of verses number in that selected chapter. I believe ISV shouldn't be a commentary module

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

Very pleased to now have a working Bible app. That was the one thing I was missing from my ipod touch. Unfortunately for me the Bible version we use at church (where I will probably be using the app the most) is New King James Version (NKJV) and the version I use at home is New International Version (NIV). However, both these versions are absent from the module. Any possibility of these versions (or at least NKJV) coming across to Rapier?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)
 

This is a problem with the books not being free, so i doubt you'll see them available for plain open-source readers. True of NKJV at least, assume it's the same for NIV.

It's not just software that should be free and open source. ;)

ARJWright is very knowledgable about the digital bible situation so perhaps he can suggest a solution.