Projects:Go Bible/SymScroll
Symmetric Scrolling Branch
- New page under construction.
Raison d'être
The motivation for developing the SymScroll branch of Go Bible was to provide support for touch screen only phones that have Java ME. And for touch screen phones with a hardware menu button, you can safely get rid of the on-screen virtual keypad and retain full Go Bible functionality, thus taking advantage of the full area of the screen for the application display.
Features
Enhanced/changed features
- Touch screen full support
- Symmetrical scrolling
New features
- Text added by translators can be displayed (e.g. in italics)
- Line breaks
- Psalm titles
- Other numeral systems (e.g. Arabic)
- Search next
- Key mapping (e.g. for phones with Qwerty keyboard)
Bug fixes
Some existing software bugs are being fixed. Details will be included in the release notes.
Implementation details
Go Bible Creator
The SymScroll branch of Go Bible Creator supports the new features. Several new UI properties have been defined. Some further properties are available for use in collections text files.
New UI properties
Here is a list of the new and re-used user interface (UI) properties:
UI-Book: Book UI-Chapter: Chapter UI-Verse: Verse UI-Search-Next: Search next UI-Digits: 0123456789
Notes:
- This list is still incomplete.
Collections text file properties
Here is a list of the new collections text file properties:
Go Bible data format
Go Bible data format already assigned the control character code \x01 to toggle on/off red letters for Words of Jesus.
This method has been extended as follows:
\x01 – red letters \x02 – \x03 – \x04 – \x05 –
As Go Bible makes no standard use of control characters, it was envisaged that any UTF-8 character up to \x1F might be used for further enhancements to the Go Bible data format.
Backwards compatibility
The SymScroll branch of GoBibleCore is backwards compatible with existing Go Bible applications. This means that earlier applications can be changed to SymScroll merely by replacing the file gobiblecore2.jar and using the Update option of Go Bible Creator to rebuild the application.
Development Status
The SymScroll branch is still being actively developed. Most of the features are already implemented. The branch is at the testing and debug stage. No milestoned release has yet been announced.
