Dear Leoram,
thank you for your suggestions and encouraing words. Let me come directly to your suggestions.
Leoram wrote:I wonder if I can post my wishlist here as I don't see a dedicated place for wishlists on the Forum index. Anyway here goes:
Yes, this is a good place to post these.
* Ability to add more than one (multiple, independent) note to a verse, chapter or book. As it is currently there is not such a possibility, what makes adding independent notes impossible.
* Ability to add a note to a range of verses and not only to a single one, ie.: Joh 3.16-18. This is useful and powerful as the user would be alerted on having a user note available when any of the verses in the range gets activated.
The answer to both of these is yes. Actually, The final version will allow you to create from scratch all types of non-Bible modules, specifically: dictionaries, commentaries, general books, maps.
So, you could add 2 personal commentary modules and for the same verse have more than one notes. Also, it will be possible to have comments on a passage, as is now the case with pre-built commentaries (hmm, i am afraid that i have not published such a commentary yet
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* Option to add tool-tipping over tool-tipping, that is, activate a pupup window as the mouse point hovers over a scripture reference contained on an already open pupup window.
Hmm, this is something that is not so trivial to do. I have already wrote that in my to-do list since another brother asked for it, i cannot promise for the final ver. 3
* Option to embed pictures and documents (blobs) on the Study View (this is extremely important and a known limitation in other Bible study tools).
This is already possible: try to drag-n-drop objects from MS Word, Explorer, etc (e.g. images): Tables will be supported also (OK, no saving yet, that'a a beta)
* Add more power and flexibility to the Bible List option; for example, one of the capabilities that can be added is changing the way the context menu over a Bible reference on the list gets activated. That instead of doing this by a either a left click or a right click of the mouse, that it be exclusively by a right click. This way the left click over the reference would be reserved to activate such a reference on a second Bible view window, which would also be the "target" Bible view. This Bible window would be opened automatically if there is not a second Bible view available. This would introduce the concept of "Target Bible Window" a feature that is currently absent in ITBWTW. This feature is very important as it would allow to take a look of the whole context of a passage without altering or dismissing the Bible list.
This is correct. The activation of the context menu with the left click is actually a left over of version 2; and since no aditional functionallity 'required' this click, i left it as is.
Concerning the "target" Bible view: this is also correct. This is a concept currently missing. In the latest beta, i just added this 'concept' with the cross-references: clicking on an x-ref in the Bible view while holding down the CTRL key will activate the 'next' Bible view. But in general, the idea of 'linked' views is something that i first need to clear out in my head. The same applies for all the inter-linking of the several views.
* Change the way ITBWTW moves an item or passage up or down through the list. That instead of performing this command using the context menu, that it instead be moved by clicking on up/down icons placed at the left icon bar of the Bible list.
You can move up/down a verse by holding down the SHIFT key and rolling the mouse wheel.
Holding down both CTRL+SHIFT and rolling the mouse wheel will add/remove verses (as a passage) from the current verse.
* That a passage be deleted using an icon placed at the left icon bar of the Bible list instead of using the delete command on the context menu.
Will consider. In general, the left toolbar is used only for actions on the whole list and not on individual items of the list. I would like something more 'separated'. Maybe a shortcut? (e.g. Shift+Delete)
* Add reordering (sorting) capability to the Bible list, that is, the ability to order all Bible references on the current list canonically.
added in todo list.
I know TheWord beta3 is a work in progress and I don't know what is in your plan brother costas but, as it is now, I'm very confortable with the software and it is very reasonable stable.
To be honest, my plan is to make no more additions to the list until the final ver.3, since there are many things being worked that i feel they are more important. But i always note down the suggestions since i usually implement them!
In Christ,
Costas