DSbible 2.5

Mei-o · Aug 19, 2008

Ok, enough with the offensive comments, demonic crap and horribly failed attempts at lulz, we don't want to start a flame war do we? Hee hee.

Well, I may not look like it but I really appreciate this, also, it's good to see that the flickering has been fixed, and as multiboy2k said, thanks and God bless!

AXYPB · Aug 19, 2008

I don't suppose a vertical mode is planned any time soon?

Also thanks and God bless.

kompact · Aug 19, 2008

Excellent to see you are still working on and updating this. Keep it up as it is appreciated.

For the people who have bad things to say:
Most people who bash Christianity have never even read the Bible. I challenge you to toss this app on your DS and read the Book of Matthew. For those of you who have taken the time to read the Bible and then rejected it I can respect that as you have at least made an informed and intelligent decision.

Jeremysr · Aug 19, 2008

multiboy2k: Heh, I didn't think anyone would actually take their DS to church with this... Unfortunately I don't think I'll be updating DSbible anymore, because I've gotten bored of working on it, and the code is pretty bad which makes adding new features not fun (I wrote most of it a year ago). Also taking notes could be pretty slow with the touch screen keyboard.

If anyone really wants another book that's organized into books, chapters, and verses, you just have to format it using the instructions in the readme, put it in the translations directory, and it will work fine. (Only it will have a big "DSbible" titlescreen

)

mrbass · Aug 19, 2008

Jeremysr thanks a ton for DS bible. I've tried tons of DS Readers and that just won't cut if for reference material (i.e. scriptures).

I spent 12 hours today and converted LDS Scriptures into one file. Book of Mormon, D&C, Pearl of Great Price.
626KB http://mrbass.org/nintendoDS/homebrew/ download bookofmormon.zip in the DS Bible section.
text size is 2.17MB

I'd have to say seems around 400KB of a single book (not same file..file can be huge but a book within the file) is about the max. Had to split Alma, D&C.
Also in D&C there were 4 scriptures I had to append to the end of the chapter 128:18, 132:19, 135:3, 135:7.

I don't think you can overcome those limitations due to DS limited memory for parsing text. Perhaps maybe all 128:18.1 which would fall
in between 128:18 and 128:19 so I could append them there. Not a huge deal though don't really care to be honest works great as is.

Jeremysr your more than welcome to include it in your DS Bible if you wish.

"Heh, I didn't think anyone would actually take their DS to church with this."
Actually I do I just hide it in my pocket. Tempted to get say an ipod touch but for only 8GB for $300 ain't worth it when DS 8GB is $35.

Some might clamor for highlighting and cross reference but I don't I'd never study electronic scriptures just quick look up at church. Hate lugging those huge
heavy scriptures around.

mrbass · Aug 19, 2008

These are my technical notes for Textwrangler (text editor mac) I use'd grep search/replace to format it to DS Bible format.
I spent tons of time June 2007 to convert Palm format to html and text for DS Organize. Now here is converting for that text format to DS Bible format.

Code:

Chapter \d+

1 Nephi (\d+:\d+)\s\s\s\d+
1Ne \1

^\sÂÂ(1st time deleted line breaks, 2nd time deleted blank lines)

Section (\d+)

D\&C \1:0 Section \1

Section (\d+).*\sDate:(.*)\sPlace:(.*)\sTo:(.*)

D\&C \1:0 Section \1 Date: \2 Place: \3 To: \4

Section (\d+).*\sDate:(.*)\sTo:(.*)

D\&C \1:0 Section \1 Date: \2 To: \3

D\&C (\d+:\d+)\s\s\s\d+

D\&C \1

d = digit
+ = no limit
( ) = string
\1 first string
\s any line break, white space non-character

Jeremysr · Aug 19, 2008

Oh yeah, I guess I made a lot of the limits only a little above what the Bible required. Here's its actual limits:

Book length, after loading: 300KB
Number of books: 100
Number of chapters per book: 150
Number of verses per chapter: 200
Length of lines in text file: 1024 characters

I didn't choose these limits because of the DS's low memory, I chose the limits because they were all that I needed for the Bible. There is plenty of memory left, so I could have increased these numbers... I wasn't thinking about books other than the Bible very much though.

AXYPB · Aug 20, 2008

Just imagine, though: Your program is being considered for use for purposes other than its original intention. You should be proud of your work.

[Edit]Wait. If you imposed a 128-chapter limit per book, how did you get all 150 Psalms in a single book?

Jeremysr · Aug 21, 2008

Oh, right

Actually the chapter limit is 150 and the verses limit is 200. I'll edit my post.

stefer · Aug 21, 2008

Have tried this on ezV+. Checked french, clicked save, it loads the list of books then stops there.

mrbass · Aug 25, 2008

Book length, after loading: 300KB
Number of books: 100
Number of chapters per book: 150
Number of verses per chapter: 200
Length of lines in text file: 1024 characters

Anyway you could increase these by chance to:

Book length, after loading: 999KB
Number of books: 100
Number of chapters per book: 500
Number of verses per chapter: 200
Length of lines in text file: 2048 characters

I'm want to put hymns on it and there are 341 hymns thus need 400 or 500 chapters.
Also could you possibly make it sleep when lid is closed to conserve battery.
I'd be glad to beta test or whatever if you could possibly increase those limits.

I'm also thinking of putting say famous quotes and other sort of often quoted lists.
Why?
Well it's just impossible on the DS to get a consitent format on the DS. DS Reader, DS Libris (can't get that working tried many versions too), DS Organize, TXT Viewer all have limitations.
I really like DS Reader but it's impossible to quickly scroll down. TXT Viewer looks like justified text but it just breaks words no matter how small to next line.
I just really like the DS Bible text format, searching capabilities, quick chapter next, previous and just think it's a great versatile program for a variety of text.
I understand it was developed for nothing but the bible so I might be pushing it but thought I'd try to ask.

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