In fact, initial tests were made over a year ago, but I was not able to commit the time to continue development. Now, I’m back on to it, with renewed energy to see it through.

Bible Reader Free, up to release 0.99, has been developed in REALBasic, which is a very good rapid application development environment. Unfortunately, the version that was avialable at the time did not make it easy to provide some of the more standard Mac OS X features that people have come to expect. A lot of jumping through hoops went on to try to mimic standard OS X operability. In the end, I tired of fighting and had been thinking for a long time of moving to Cocoa, using Objective-C, along with Xcode, to continue the development.

Starting up in Cocoa meant a reasonably steep learning curve, though I am familiar with C. I guess it was the thought of having to dig in and start again. But I knew the benefits would be much greater once I passed that first set of hurdles.