Daily Word Update
May 23rd, 2005 by Brian A. Thomas
As I said before The Daily Word is being redone from the ground up. Some of the changes one can expect:
Rather then put the daily reading onto a VB form, which has links to read the daily reading on the default browser, the new version puts the daily reading on a web page itself, which the user can click the link to read the daily reading online. Why this change? It makes it easier to customize the output. Say some church or somebody wants to have a customized version for them. If the web page is well designed, all I’ll have to do is change the CSS file and they would have their own page, or perhaps they could modify it themselves and distribute the results, depending on my final licensing scheme.
The user interface will be greatly refined. The user interface in the original alpha release wasn’t so great. It was functional, but it was too cluttered. The new interface will be much cleaner and nicer.
Some things that I plan on returning from the plans of the original design:
The program can customize itself for multiple users. So everyone in a home may choose their own reading options such as what they want to read, and in what translation the links should go to.
The program will minimize to the system tray, and the system tray menu hopefully will allow you to change users on the fly and perhaps even show the reading without links, and without having to open the browser, and hopefully the help text that pops up when you hover over the system tray icon will tell you which user the program is set for. All this depends on what exactly is possible with Visual Basic and system tray programs.
