BibleWorks 7.0 External Links Manager

[Joe Fleener]

The attached .txt file contains the External Links I currently have for BibleWorks 7.0.

I believe most if not all of these will ship with the program to serve as examples.

If you take a look at this it may look a little scary. No need to worry.

BibleWorks 7.0 comes with a nice, easy to use External Links Manager which allows you to set all of this up via menu options - see pic.


If any of the other Beta testers have other EL's maybe they will share them here.

In the future this could serve as a good thread to share more links as you "discover" them.


P.S. This ShellExec.txt file will not work with 6.0.

[xara777]

Looks great. So you have Lookup Verse (e.g., NA27 Critical Apparatus) and Lookup Word (e.g., Anchor Bible Dictionary) links. What are some other possibilities that you think would make good use of Libronix where BibleWorks may be lacking or supplemented?

Keep those screen shots coming - they are nice to look at!

Thanks,

Mike

[jdarlack]

Considering that the ELM can call up a java script if necessary, it seems that the sky would be the limit regarding how you can integrate with a program like Libronix. That, would however, take a lot more training that I have in programming!

So, if anyone out there knows how to use Libronix' language, then have at it and show us what you can do.

Here's a quick request for those who can program:
The ability to perform a search in a particular resource.
The ability to perform a search in a particular resource collection.
The ability to perform the above searches using both Strong's numbers and Unicode Greek and Hebrew.

I can envision these being handled externally from BibleWorks, I just don't know how!

[jfidel]

Thanks for putting these together in one place for those of us that are still waiting to get the update.

John Fidel

[manthano]

Would it be possible to create an EL for e-Sword?

[Joe Fleener]

Originally Posted by manthano

Would it be possible to create an EL for e-Sword?

In a sense anything is possible. It would just be a matter of determining the code of an external call to e-sword, which I don't know off hand...

[Joe Fleener]

Originally Posted by manthano

Would it be possible to create an EL for e-Sword?

Getting e-Sword to open is rather simple:

You simply exectute to following command:

"C:\Program Files\e-Sword\e-Sword.exe" -v Pro 6:4

Here is the actual syntax for the BW ELM:

// External Link #26
//
[E-Sword]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = "C:\Program Files\e-Sword\e-Sword.exe"
Parameters = -v <book> <chapter>:<verse>
MenuLocation = Browse Window All
TextType = Bible Verse
MapToVersion = KJV
Lookup = Verse Reference
MenuText = E-Sword
Enabled = 1

Rick did say if e-Sword was open there was no way to navigate to a verse with an external call. You can only open the program to a particular verse.

[manthano]

I wasn't aware of the -v option. Thanks for contacting Rick to find that out! I am eagerly awaiting my copy of BW 7 to try it out.

[Joe Fleener]

The Link #'s are from my file. You will have to change those for your file.

//
// External Link #27
//
[Google search]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=<dummy>&btnG=Google+Search
Parameters = NULL
MenuLocation = Browse Window English
TextType = Latin Text
MapToVersion = NULL
Lookup = Form
MenuText = Google
Enabled = 1
//
// External Link #28
//
[Google Sets]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=<dummy>&q2=&q3=&q4=&q5=&btn=Large+Se t
Parameters = NULL
MenuLocation = Browse Window English
TextType = Latin Text
MapToVersion = NULL
Lookup = Form
MenuText = Google Sets
Enabled = 1
//
// External Link #29
//
[Wikipedia]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<dummy>
Parameters = NULL
MenuLocation = Browse Window English
TextType = Latin Text
MapToVersion = NULL
Lookup = Form
MenuText = Wikipedia
Enabled = 1
//
// External Link #30
//
[Dictionary.com]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=<dummy>
Parameters = NULL
MenuLocation = Browse Window English
TextType = Latin Text
MapToVersion = NULL
Lookup = Form
MenuText = Dictionary.com
Enabled = 1
//
// External Link #31
//
[Jewish Encyclopedia]
Operation = Open
Directory = NULL
File = http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/search_results.jsp?searchType=1&pageNum=1&search=< dummy>&x=0&y=0&searchOpt=0
Parameters = NULL
MenuLocation = Browse Window English
TextType = Latin Text
MapToVersion = NULL
Lookup = Form
MenuText = Jewish Encyclopedia
Enabled = 1

[Dunk]

Rick did say if e-Sword was open there was no way to navigate to a verse with an external call. You can only open the program to a particular verse.

THanks for finding that out Joe.

I guess one solution would be to get in the habit of closing esword when you are done with a verse, and then letting BW7 open it again at the next verse you want to go to.

Too bad that you can't open multiple instances of esword at a time.

Dunk