Frontends:BibleDesktop

Bible Desktop is free Bible Study software. It is actively improved with releases every few months.

Bible Desktop is based upon JSword, a Java implementation of the SWORD C++ Engine. As such Bible Desktop works with all SWORD Modules.

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 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

Windows 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)

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Sword

N.B. Java SE does not recognize Windows environment variables, so using %appdata% cannot be used successfully here.

External links

You can read more at the Bible Desktop home page