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'''Bible Desktop''' is free Bible Study software. It is actively improved with releases every few months.
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'''Bible Desktop''', JSWORD based, runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux
  
Bible Desktop is based upon [[DevTools:JSword|JSword]], a Java implementation of the [[DevTools:SWORD|SWORD C++ Engine]]. As such Bible Desktop works with all SWORD Modules.
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Project Website: http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop
 
 
== Features: ==
 
Bible Desktop has the following distinctive features:
 
* You can run Bible Desktop on Windows, Mac and Unix. This is especially attractive for you if you use more than one of these.
 
* You can view an unlimited number of Bibles in parallel.
 
* You can view differences between Bibles in the same language.
 
* You can do rich searching of Bible text, Strong's Numbers, Notes, Headings, and Cross References.
 
* You can view search results in the same window that you view Bible passages.
 
* You can expand the context of all or selected search results.
 
 
 
== Web Start Bible Desktop ==
 
If you have Java SE installed, this includes the [http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/ Java Web Start] technology called '''javaws'''. In Windows, to launch the Bible Desktop '''nightly build''' using Web Start, ''without having to open a browser'', create a Windows command file containing the following line.
 
 
 
@start javaws http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/nightly/bibledesktop.jnlp
 
 
 
Save this with a suitable filename, such as BD_WS.cmd and then create a Windows shortcut to it. To go the whole hog, you may wish to optionally change the shortcut properties, such that the command window starts minimized, and even apply a suitable icon, such as the one found in BibleDesktop.exe
 
 
 
== Shortcut properties ==
 
 
 
If you have already a set of modules installed from another front-end application, the Bible Desktop shortcut may be edited such that it starts in the appropriate directory. Example: (Windows 7)
 
 
 
%AppData%\Roaming\Sword
 
 
 
== External links ==
 
You can read more at the [http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop Bible Desktop home page]
 
  
 
[[Category:SWORD Frontends|BibleDesktop]]
 
[[Category:SWORD Frontends|BibleDesktop]]
 
[[Category:JSword|BibleDesktop]]
 
[[Category:JSword|BibleDesktop]]

Latest revision as of 08:30, 8 January 2018

Bible Desktop, JSWORD based, runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux

Project Website: http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop