ScripturePad Suggestion

[shane2peru]

I have a quick suggestion for the ScripturePad that I have been using more and more. I would love it if ScripturePad would default to rtf. Rtf files are very versatile and easily opened and edited by many applications. That being said, I set my BibleAnalyzer Note folder inside of my Dropbox folder. Defaulting to rtf, would then allow my notes to be easily accessible on a mobile device. I have yet to find an xml viewer that renders the BA xml files correctly. I'm not sure if there is a lack of standard for xml files or maybe I'm just really ignorant about xml files, but it seems to me that rtf files are standard, and very usable. Just my thoughts. So how about a user option to set default to rtf? or xml? or html?

Shane

[Tim]

Yes, we will look into this.

Due to the limitations of the control used in ScripturePad, the RTF it saves/reads has only the basic formatting elements. If one tries to open an RTF file made by another application there may be an error. However, other programs should be able to open those made by ScripturePad.

The XML files can save all the formatting of ScripturePad, but no other applications can reliably read them. If all the text development and/or printing is done through Bible Analyzer, this should not be an issue. but if another program is involved, it can be.

[shane2peru]

Understood! Is html an option at all with python? The end goal for this would be to default save the notes to Dropbox (ie any web cloud based option) and be able to reliably read them, edit them and re-open them in BA. For Message preparation, this would be very valuable as this could then be easily accessed with a Tablet, the then be further worked on, or even used at that point. I'm thinking this could be a valuable asset of BA for pastors, youth workers, and others.

[Tim]

The RTF feature would be the only option for using on Dropbox, unfortunately. But depending on what you edit with on the other end ScripturePad may not be able to read it.

ScripturePad does save in html, but it can't read it back. I know that sounds odd, but the people who wrote the control haven't gotten to that yet.

I do hope we can add more complete reading/saving in ScripturePad soon.