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Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by doksng (Post 736694)

Tried to find some documentation on the Palm Bible+ format and was unsuccessful. Do you have any link to documentation on the format

You will not find any. The format used in bible plus is the same used in an older palm bible reader originally developed by a guy named Poetry Poon, who has long since left the mobile scene. In general, the PDB or palm database format, was generally used across all palm OS devices, and it was largely undocumented.

When applications, such as Olive Tree's bible reader, added DRM features, this too was not documented. And I am pretty sure that they are not sharing that now since they use PDB files still as a wrapper for much of their mobile bibles, and the DRM is locked to the file and the reader. I know they keep tabs on this thread, and might have something to contribute if the project benefits them - hence the early discussions on creating a closed source module for folks like Olive Tree - but overall, I wouldn't wait.

Nice to see this project still going. Good to know that my reference of it during Uplinq could be met with work still happening.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

There is a bug in Katana is you follow the below Steps:
1. Open Katana
2. Select Jubilee 2000 bible
3. Search for "Love" keyword
4. Search results are shown
5. Select a search result example Psalms

The app will crash and when you try to open next time also it just loads and closes again

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 740056)

I don't know if you uploaded it yet but I downloaded and installed. After opening it, it starts to load, but never load all the way. Just crashes every time I open it.

I uploaded a new version (0.4.1) which should fix this.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by leojab (Post 740156)

leojab, I'm not able to duplicate this problem. How did you install the Jubilee 2000 translation? Also, what version are you using? You can tell by going to Select Translation. Do the translations show up as buttons, or list items?

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

Thank you joshn53 for such a great app.
The issue I reported seems to have been resolved in the new Katana v0.4.1
The Jubilee bible version that I used earlier was from rapier app

I would like to suggest the following features if it is fine
1. In case of a search, when there is a book having only one chapter then it can go directly to that chapter rather then displaying option to select "1"
2. Option to select text for copy paste
3. Option to add certain verses to a favorite tab with category
4. While searching within book chapter, we have the ability to type numbers
5. Ability to highlight certain verses from favorite tab

Once again, thanks for all the time and effort.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by leojab (Post 740680)

if it is fine
1. In case of a search, when there is a book having only one chapter then it can go directly to that chapter rather then displaying option to select "1".

Ha! I'd actually encountered this myself and fixed it in SVN already. :-)

I've uploaded a new version (0.4.2) into extras-devel. Unless you all find bugs in it, I'll likely push it into extras-testing soon.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by joshn53 (Post 742584)

I tried to check the version of Katana installed and noticed that there was no option to view this in the application.

I think an about section would be useful.

Thanks

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

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Originally Posted by joshn53 (Post 739055)

jmc8501, thanks for the feedback. Some questions:
- What do you mean by "unstable" scrolling?
- Are there specific places where the reader feels laggy?

The idea behind Katana is that it's "infinite-scroll" - i.e. you can scroll forever. Having to stop at the end of a book doesn't fit in with that, and I'm planning to remove that limitation. So, with infinite scroll, scrollbars don't really make sense.

You can actually use the volume rocker to page up/down. This is especially nice in portrait mode, because you can hold the phone in your right hand and your thumb falls right on the rocker. That's the way that I use Katana 90% of the time.

Hope that helps!

Ok, an infinite scroll would certainly preclude scroll bars, so that's fine. And the volume rocker as page turn is really nice :)

The buggy scrolling isn't within the actual reader, but only when installing bibles - it's the sensitivity that makes it react badly to input. For instance, scrolling slowly will not move a lot, but a bit more quickly and it will jump all over the place. Also, I recommend that the text wraps here as opposed to allowing horizontal scrolling.

The lag issue happens towards the end of a scroll, or after scrolling more than just a few pages. But I was mostly referring to a lag when opening the menus or settings, etc. (especially the first time, where it is very noticeable).

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

I have to retract what I said about scrolling within the bibles themselves - it is very smooth and works well. However, everything else, especially about scrolling in the install screen is still valid.

Re: Bible App for Maemo 5 Device(s)

Any possibility of an option to disable automatic rotation? Got so used to the N900 not having portrait support that I always disable automatic rotation. Don't like it going into portait mode when I didn't intend to.