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2010-03-30
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Originally Posted by joshn53
Duly noted.
It's very unlikely that any major new features will be available by April 1st.
I like Logos' APIs (go REST!), but I'd echo the others - if the APIs are online-only at this point, I don't see a lot of advantage to using them; BibleGateway.net provides online access to many translations. Adding support for the API could be a fun exercise to demonstrate how easy it is to add a new text source, but the difficulty would be showing nice status when downloading data from the server.
And the status message from the server for non-local content... that sounds like something fun to learn more about from my end. Thanks for the feedback there.
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2010-04-10
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A short update: I've just committed code in SVN to manage translations, including downloading new translations off of the internet. This removes the dependency on Rapier to install translations. Unfortunately, since the Autobuilder is messed up until PR 1.2, so I can't upload a new version.
As soon as PR 1.2 is released, I'll upload a compatible version. The work at that point will be testing, and I'll need all of your help to do testing (and vote the application up, of course!) so that we can get it into Extras.
Aside from helping the app move into extras, I likely won't be spending much more time on it; I've spent about as much time as I can justify, and for me it's pretty much feature complete.
For those of you wanting .pdb support: I still don't know of any translations available in .pdb format that aren't available in the sword repository (and can therefore be download with a few clicks.) If any of you have modules like this, would you mind sending them to me?
As soon as PR 1.2 is released, I'll upload a compatible version. The work at that point will be testing, and I'll need all of your help to do testing (and vote the application up, of course!) so that we can get it into Extras.
Aside from helping the app move into extras, I likely won't be spending much more time on it; I've spent about as much time as I can justify, and for me it's pretty much feature complete.
For those of you wanting .pdb support: I still don't know of any translations available in .pdb format that aren't available in the sword repository (and can therefore be download with a few clicks.) If any of you have modules like this, would you mind sending them to me?
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2010-04-14
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Just updated to version 3.0. Thanks joshn53
You can now download Bibles directly through Katana.
You can install and remove multiple Bible versions at the same time.
When I used the option it deleted all the bible versions I had previously downloaded using Rapier, so I had to start over again.
You now have a button to close search results
Noticed that once in a while it would give an error message that Katana is not responding during download and search but I clicked on no to continue.
Downloading bibles was slow and took quite some time.
There is no notification when populating the list of bibles to download and might give the impression that it is not responding
Joshn53, I think there should be an "About" section with your name, contact details, version number and link to this discussion on t.m.o.
Thanks
You can now download Bibles directly through Katana.
You can install and remove multiple Bible versions at the same time.
When I used the option it deleted all the bible versions I had previously downloaded using Rapier, so I had to start over again.
You now have a button to close search results
Noticed that once in a while it would give an error message that Katana is not responding during download and search but I clicked on no to continue.
Downloading bibles was slow and took quite some time.
There is no notification when populating the list of bibles to download and might give the impression that it is not responding
Joshn53, I think there should be an "About" section with your name, contact details, version number and link to this discussion on t.m.o.
Thanks
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2010-04-14
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#395
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This is excellent guys! Well done on your hard work and God Bless!
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There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12
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2010-04-14
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#396
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WOW, this prog is so cool!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot!
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2010-04-14
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could I ask how difficult it might be to have an option to inverse the screen colours when in reading mode? I think mguttenburg has this and I am guessing that reading white text on a black background would be less battery intensive because the screen isn't light up as much.
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There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12
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2010-04-14
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Originally Posted by cardiff-blues
It's probably not that hard to add, but you won't save any battery doing it. Remember that an LCD screen creates color by restricting light, not creating it.
could I ask how difficult it might be to have an option to inverse the screen colours when in reading mode? I think mguttenburg has this and I am guessing that reading white text on a black background would be less battery intensive because the screen isn't light up as much.
Besides battery life, is there an argument for this? My main objection is that it's Yet Another Setting.
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2010-04-14
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Originally Posted by doksng
Hmm. I added validation against that... So you were really able to delete all the translations? I'll have to fix that.
When I used the option it deleted all the bible versions I had previously downloaded using Rapier, so I had to start over again.
Originally Posted by doksng
Yuck. That's when the sword libraries are hanging. I may have to roll my own FTP transport to fix that.
Noticed that once in a while it would give an error message that Katana is not responding during download and search but I clicked on no to continue.
Originally Posted by doksng
I'll look into this as well. Were you downloading bibles over wifi or 3G? I'm guessing that high latency was causing this.
Downloading bibles was slow and took quite some time.
There is no notification when populating the list of bibles to download and might give the impression that it is not responding
Originally Posted by doksng
I agree that an about page would be a good idea. I wish I had time to set up a website - I'm hesitant to link to this forum, since I hope that Katana will have a life beyond Maemo (i.e. MeeGo.) We'll see.
Joshn53, I think there should be an "About" section with your name, contact details, version number and link to this discussion on t.m.o.
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2010-04-15
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Thanks for the great work, Josh!
Does anyone know about importing non-free versions to into Katana? I'm interested in getting the NLT version. It's $15 at ESword, but I don't want to buy it on my home PC, then find that I can only use it there.
Will it download as a stand-alone file that can be copied over to my N900? Is Katana set up to search for files copied over like that?
Thanks again!
Steve
Does anyone know about importing non-free versions to into Katana? I'm interested in getting the NLT version. It's $15 at ESword, but I don't want to buy it on my home PC, then find that I can only use it there.
Will it download as a stand-alone file that can be copied over to my N900? Is Katana set up to search for files copied over like that?
Thanks again!
Steve
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I like Logos' APIs (go REST!), but I'd echo the others - if the APIs are online-only at this point, I don't see a lot of advantage to using them; BibleGateway.net provides online access to many translations. Adding support for the API could be a fun exercise to demonstrate how easy it is to add a new text source, but the difficulty would be showing nice status when downloading data from the server.