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#351
Originally Posted by joshn53 View Post
This is actually intentional. In my testing, I found that it was nicer to scroll to the right place, rather than have to pick the specific verse. Quite often, you want to go to the start of the chapter anyway.

We might need a "select" mode, similar to the browser's cursor mode. I'll consider something like this.

Do you have examples of translations that are available in pdb, but not in sword?
First off, excellent work. I've no longer got an N900 to play with, and so I'll have to wait until the Symbian^1 version of Qt is finished so that I could play with this. I am so looking forward to doing so. Until then comments on the above quoted items:

- as long as it supports going to a verse if the user types it, that should not be a problem for most. It might irk a few folks who are used to applications doing otherwise - that is, not acting like a book

- select mode via some kind of tap-and-hold on the screen as well as by hitting a specific key on the keyboard would work here (making the assumption that devices might not have a keyboard is good here)

- at this time, most versions are similar between them, however I think the .pdb support was requested as a means for users who already have a collect of bibles in this format to use them instead of redownloading them onto the device. In the case of most of these (Laridian and Olive Tree the exceptions), they are not locked to a specific reader. The developer who builds the S60 Compact Bible uses the same .pdb bibles, but doesn't have the Sword support.

Again, great work, and to those of you testing, can you figure out some reproducable steps so that we can add that to the post noting the test scripts? Should be similar to the last (download and install, open, install bible(s), read/search and general user interface, and additional app configurations/settings). Thanks in advance to all.