Quick and simple scripture finder. Use keyboard controls to navigate the Bible in a small desktop app.
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Download the latest release for Windows.
- Type to filter desired book (by name), chapter or verse (by number)
Enterto select (nav forward),Backspaceto nav backEscapeto clear searchCtrl Fto search regex in Bible, book, or chapter scope- When viewing a chapter:
Ctrl Up/Downto highlight prev/next verse
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Shortcut to books/home page
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ctrl-c copy text
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ctrl-plus/minus font size zoom
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join all books into one file instead of separate
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Fix Psalms superscriptions and [other extra symbols/chars]
- replace backticks with hyphens (or nothing), and replace newlines with nothing (during initial download and parsing)?
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abbreviate books in window title?
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make inital setup script run automatically during installer setup?
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versioning: include in a "help" section for app? or just incl elsewhere, like in exe name or adjacent json
- right click .exe -> Properties does show version and whatnot, so technically it's there just not as visible
- auto updates? or user checking thru app at least?
- app checks github page for new release maybe
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prevent slow loading + white dialog on initial setup download?
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simplified regex, eg shortcuts for case sensitive, exact match, etc
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implement filterableList default filter as ordered by index of regex search (allowing both caps,lower,space, and unspaced)
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retain window size from last session
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generalize for other languages
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update demo gif
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load search results in batches for faster updates?
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highlighted verse in middle or upper third of screen
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keep highlighted verse focused during window resize?
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create branch partial-release, just for auto updating app to download updated/new files (or delete?)
- unless checksum each file and only download the new ones curl https://api.github.com/repos/wong-justin/fast-bible/releases/latest tag_name
- parsing error on Ezra 4:8 from download
steps to fbs-ify a pyqt app on windows
- install python 3.5 or 3.6 on system (necessary b/c fbs version limit)
- binary installers easier than building from source .tgz files
- create virtualenv with that python version:
virtualenv -p <path/to/python/36> ./env- python maybe at
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36`
- python maybe at
- activate venv (
scripts/activate.bat) pip installfbsand other packages (PyQt5, etc)- follow fbs getting started instructions, like
fbs startproject- restructure relative dirs to be in
src/main/resources - refactor code referencing relative paths as
appctxt.get_resource([resources/]'path/to/file') - replace main/app.py code final lines, mainly
appctxt.app.exec_()
- restructure relative dirs to be in
fbs runto run app during testing (shortcut forpython src/main/python/[app].py)fbs freezeto createtarget/installation dirfbs installerto make a setup wizard .exe after freeze; created next totarget/dir
If errors on running packaged code, like Failed to execute script main, rebuild with fbs freeze --debug and it will log output on next run. Some of my errors:
- doing minimal install of NSIS (windows installer creation); it needs all the components checked, eg. Modern GUI
- trying my own directory structure, different from
src/main/resources/...(fbs freezedoesn't recognize anything else) - not refactoring some relative paths into
appctxt.get_resource('rel/path')