Right now, I have an early version of Bible Reader running in Cocoa, using the same Books folder that 0.99 uses. Providing this application is placed in the same folder as 0.99, it picks up the available translations and provides them within the program.

Straight off, it’s much quicker navigating between chapters. Clicking the next button at the bottom brings up the next chapter almost instantly. This is probably a combination of Cocoa and some better coding techniques used since 0.99 was written

Other than general browsing of the bible texts, there are no other features currently working. Except for a live word match feature, where a word is typed into a field and it’s highlighted wherever it occurs in the text. That’s quite useful, but really only a test feature for better things to come!

I’m studying the documentation for SearchKit, which is a Carbon framework for searching documents and text. This works with indexes, which is how any good search mechanism should operate. Once I’ve deciphered the code, this should give Bible Reader a search that can find disparate words, a la Google et al. Now that would be a useful search system!