DAVAR3 - "Scripture Study Tool"

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What is DAVAR3: DAVAR3 is a continuation of the previous Davar version 2.4. In summer 2004, development of D3 was started, from scratch. In this version, the functionality was extended to provide a user friendly tool for Scripture studies with big focus to the original languages. Most old-good functions from Davar 2.4 will be kept and many new will be added. Because D3 is now pretty stable and mature program, we offer it as main product. Preview of actual Davar3 version. Note: image quality is reduced to 256 colors only Finished features in Davar3 BETA1: 1) Options dialog Options (invoked by Program | Options...) is a modal dialog, consisted from list of groups (in left part) and controls (in right part). From this dialog, most of Davar3 settings can be done. Follows short description of  most important settings: Program - General program preferences Default program language - select localization of the program strings. Save configuration on exit - will save changed options, book, lexicon and dictionary windows positions and content when program exit. If you prefer to have still same layout of windows when program starts -  let this option checked, when exit. Then, uncheck this option when program starts again. Preferred windows layout - cascade / tile. Tile has options to be aligned horizontally / vertically. Auto arrange for tile mean, that after main window is resized, program rearrange all windows to use maximum available space. Character table - enable / disable character tips and select color of frame for Hebrew and Greek table. To change color, just click to colored rectangle. Refresh toolbar on resize - default unchecked. If checked, toolbar of main window is refreshed during resizing (this produce flickering sometimes). Show toolbar tips - enable / disable tooltips on main window toolbar. Tip of the Day on start - enable / disable "Tip of the Day" when program starts. Auto-end of Hebrew - (default checked) - final Hebrew characters are automatically placed as you type (using keyboard or character table) Use abbreviations in verse list - use short or long references in verse list (Genesis 1:1 versus Gen 1:1) Show splash screen on the start - if enabled, you can specify how many ms is splash visible. Note: click  of mouse on splash screen will cause immediate end of splash delay interval. Scroll tip background - color of small reference window, which shows position in book, when scroll is dragged. Scroll tip width - width of small reference window, which shows position in book, when scroll is dragged. Warning when sort more results then: - on slow PC, sort in results of search can be sometimes slow. Here you can specify, how many results of search will create warning message. On fast PC, you can enter number 50000 - for Bible search and sort results of the search this number will disable any warning. Fonts - Font options Latin font - click to ... button will display font selection dialog. Note: only selected font Name and Size  is accepted - bold, underline and italic are used in text according tags. Hebrew and Greek font - use spin control to increase / decrease font size. Note: program use  HebrewUniversal and GreekUniversal fonts only and that cannot be changed. Tags - Tag options Displaying of text is controlled by TAGS - special marks, inserted in text. This tags are invisible for common user and are prepared by authors of modules in file. There are tags for inserting Strong#, morpohology, notes, Greek and Hebrew etc. User can select some attributes, how tags are displayed. In list of tags, select type of tag - e.g. tag Hebrew Strong#. In right part, you can select color of tag (to change color, just click to colored rectangle) and bold and italic styles. When tag is selected, small informations about use of tag is show in text field. Paths - Paths settings You can add up to 9 paths which will be searched when the program starts for modules to be added to library. Paths are searched in order as inserted in list. Use button Add to add path to directory, button Delete to delete selected path. Buttons with arrows for move selected path up/down in list. Important: it is supposed that in each inserted path exist directory \data  , directories \audio and \pictures can be also presented. When program starts, first test folders and files in path, where was started (so it is not necessary to add that path into list), then paths in order of list. If find files with same name, use first occurrence. This means, that you can use "library" burned on CD/DVD media. New versions of modules can be placed in \data subdirectory where is executable file and will be prefered before other files with same name. Check "Add CD/DVD drives automatically to the end of paths": When this is checked (recommended), then program keeps CD/DVD media in paths automatically. This is also default setting after installation. Each start of program, CD/DVD media are checked and found module files are used. Lexicons - Lexicon preferences Minimum width of column for word - here can be adjusted minimum space for keyword of lexicons. Ignore Hebrew vowels for keyword - when type string to combo of lexicon and press Enter, program search in keywords for this string (* and ? are allowed). In case of Hebrew, vowels are ignored and all words with same consonants as in string are inserted to filter. Active filter highlight background of combo (if not disabled) and shows icon of red funnel in status bar, together with number of records in filter. Clear filter of lexicon before next search - when this is checked, filter is cleared when Enter  is pressed for search (see info above). You can uncheck this option and then search in results of previous search. Highlight lexicon lines - if enabled, you can select colors of odd and even lines in lexicon keywords. Highlight lexicon combo when filter is active - as mentioned above, if filter is active then color of combo background indicate that state. This can be disabled. If enabled, you can select color of background. Note: it is not recommended to disable coloring Dictionaries - Dictionaries preferences Turn to opposite direction automatically - program recognize Latin based, Hebrew and Greek texts. When you doubleclick to word in text, program can (if enabled) turn direction of dictionary (if necessary) and synchronize to nearest word. Ignore Hebrew vowels for keyword - when type string to combo of dictionary and press Enter, program search in keywords for this string (* and ? are allowed). In case of Hebrew, vowels are ignored and all words with same consonants as in string are inserted to filter. Active filter highlight background of combo (if not disabled) and shows icon of red funnel in status bar, together with number of records in filter. Clear filter of dictionary before next search - when this is checked, filter is cleared when Enter  is pressed for search (see info above). You can uncheck this option and then search in results of previous search. Highlight dictionary lines - if enabled, you can select colors of odd and even lines in dictionary keywords. Highlight dictionary combo when filter is active - as mentioned above, if filter is active then color of combo background indicate that state. This can be disabled. If enabled, you can select color of background. Note: it is not recommended to disable coloring Multimedia - Audio and picture options Autoplay when open MP3 file - program can play MP3 files generally by two ways: 1) by direct open of MP3 file 2) by open of Audio Index  file (AIX). When this option is checked, then direct open of MP3 file will start playing immediatelly. Delete temporary file after merge to AIX file If you perform indexing of MP3 files using "Audio indexing tool" then program create temporary text file with positions in MP3 files versus  scripture references. When indexing is done, program merge that  temporary file with main AIX file (that can be done manually in text editor too). When this option is checked, temporary file is deleted after merge. Otherwise, file is overwritten on the start of next indexing session. Reverse / Forward time interval [sec] Interval for fast move forward/backward when playing directly opened MP3 file. Audio timer [ms], buffer size for playing [bytes] and buffer size for indexing [bytes] On slow PC, you can change values for better performance of playing. In other cases, it is not recommended to change this values! Enable picture halftone quality This option is enabled from Windows2000 only. If checked, pictures are displayed using Windows API functions with halftones in better quality. Beep at 100% zoom Zoom in/out can be also performed by wheel of mouse. If this option is checked, then 1:1 picture size is signed by beep. Topmost window of Picture Browser If checked, picture window is above all windows. Available also from toolbar menu. Dialog-like style of Picture Browser window If checked, picture window has style like window toolbar dialog and is not presented in task manager bar in bottom. When new picture is open, fit Determine, how fit each new opened picture to existing pisture browser window. Context Tips - Context Tips options Show context tips If checked, context tips are enabled.On VERY slow PC, it can be good to disable context tips. Available also from toolbar menu. Show reference in context tips Show Strong # in context tips Show Greek morphology in context tips You can specify, which kind of information is displayed in context tip. Thick frame of context tip If checked, context tip window has thick frame. Tip width and tip height Adjust size of context tip window to fit your display resolution. Tip background color Background of tip - to change color, just click to colored rectangle. Context tip label Some attributes of contex tip text, mostly for reference text from book. Show tags in tip Text in context tip depends on selected source for tips (see items below). If you select tagged text of book or lexicon, then you can select if tags are displayed, not displayed or displayed as is set for book, where you point. Default settings is no tags - for speed reasons. Note: if you display tags in context tips, pointing of mouse or click to tag (e.g. Strong# tag or reference) in tip window has no effect. Source files for tips Select files (by buttons) as sources for context tip for preview (book, lexicon and dictionary). Can be unspecified. Remember: file MUST be opened in window, to display informations in context tip! If file is not opened, let program to use some opened file as source for context tip If checked, and source file for context tip is not opened (or specified), then program try to use some else available file for tip. If this cannot be performed, then context tip contains message: *** File not found*** Other settings - Other program settings Check for updates when program starts If you are connected to internet, select time interval for updates checking. When program starts, connect to Davar3 web and get informations about program updates and new modules. If you select check for every day option, check is performed only once/day, even when start program more often. You can invoke check for updates from manually: Help | Perform check for updates 2) Checking for updates tool We plan to release and update many new books, lexicons and dictionaries modules. If you are connected to internet, check for updates is a good way to be informed about latest modules and program updates. While web page "news" section is updated with main releases only, this tool is able to inform you about each, even small updates. As mentioned in Options section above, just select frequency of checking for updates. If program find new releases, small popup window will show basic informations about released files and you will decide if program will invoke web browser, which will be redirected to download section of Davar web. You can download files according your decision and install it manually. Total amount of transferred data at check procedure is less than 32 kB, so it is very fast. DISCLAIMER: Davar3 does NOT send any informations about user to internet. Check for updates first get small text file from program homepage, compare date in PC with date of last check (stored in davar.cfg) and dates of actualizations in retrieved file. After evaluation, selected part of retrieved text file is displayed in information window. 3) Davar3 beta1 is fast... and sometimes is VERY FAST! Davar3 beta1 is build without debugging informations and optimized for speed (in OpenWatcom 1.6). It means that speed of execution was greatly improved. While search in book was speed up about 2 times, search in lexicon almost 20 times! See comparison search in Davar3 alpha5 and Davar3 beta1: Davar3 alpha5 [sec] Davar3 beta1 [sec] Search for all words "King Solomon prophet Nathan" in entire KJV+ 1.03 0.59 Search for any word "King Solomon prophet Nathan" in entire KJV+ 2.36 1.3 Search for Hebrew word "Che-Se-D" in entire DBD lexicon 5.25 0.28 Search for English word "wife" in entire DBD lexicon 5.19 0.22 Search for English word "iron" in entire WRUDplain (Webster) lexicon 81.8 4.77 Finished features in Davar3 ALPHA5: 1) Picture browser    Picture browser is stand-alone window (or dialog) where picture files can be displayed. For example maps, charts, diagrams, illustrations and photos. All pictures must be placed in \picture subfolder. Except picture files, only copyright.nfo file can be in this folder (if you are interested, open this file in editor for more info).    You can select  picture from library tree on left side of main window (double click).  Similarly as books and other data, pictures can be divided to nested folders (up to 9 levels). D3A5 has included predefined picture-tree structure in file library.cfg.     Note: library.cfg keeps information about ALL available pictures for Davar3. Installation file has just small sample of pictures, to keep installation small. You can download zipped all pictures from download section and unzip content of package to \picture folder.    When picture is displayed, you can use button from toolbar (zoom in/out, fit all window/height/width, make picture topmost). Arrow buttons (previous/next picture) will work for pictures in actual "folder".     Wheel of mouse zoom picture in predefined steps, left button can "drag" picture (if it's size is bigger than size of window) and move.    Context menu of picture (right click) has same commands. There is also direct selection of zoom (10 - 400%) and copyright info about actual picture (if presented in copyright.nfo in \picture folder). Note: Davar3 uses excellent FreeImage.dll - free, open source graphics library. It can handle all common bitmap file formats (BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG, PSD, TIFF, .... ). You can add own files to \picture folder for use in Davar3. If you know about interesting source of pictures for Davar, please contact us. 2) Context tip window    Context tip window is a variant of "tooltip" window. It can help you to get really quick informations about text, you are study. When point to text in book or lexicon, it will quickly display: Content of reference. If text contains e.g. tag of reference "Gen 1:1", this verse is displayed.  Hebrew and Greek strongs. If you have opened lexicons with Greek / Hebrew Strongs info (stripd_gr.lex, stripd_he.lex, str_he.lex or str_gr.lex), then pointing to any Strong# will display informations. Greek morphology. If you point to greek word AND it contains morphology tags, then popup window shows decoded morphology informations. Note: preferred filename of book for preview in context tip is in davar.cfg in option: "ContextTipBookFilename". There is option "ContextTipSubstitute" - if set to 0, only specified file can be used for preview (must be open). If set to 1, then is still preferred, but if cannot be reference displayed (file not opened or reference is not in book), then Davar3 will try to find any book (latin based only), which can be used for preview. Preferred lexicons for Hebrew/Greek are in options "ContextTipLexHEFilename" and "ContextTipLexGRFilename", respectively. On slower PC, context tips can take serious part of CPU time - there is button "TIP" in toolbar which will context tips enable/disable. If you hold Ctrl key, tip window will be "frozen". In future version of Davar3, configuration will be performed via "Options" dialog. 3) Watch clipboard    If you use Davar dictionaries and lexicons as tool for translations, this function save you some time. If activated, Davar watch content of clipboard and if is changed, text is placed to all opened dictionaries and lexicons. 4) Davar3 new localizations: Added  Polish (thanks to Jerzy Gurycz ), Italian and French (thanks to Mario Valente) localization files. Davar3 is now localised to 9 languages. Your help with new localizations is welcome - please contact us if you decide to translate Davar3. 5) Many bugs were fixed. Library tree window color/gray folders, rebar bands are better positioned, fixed RTF tags in info windows, english text in about dialog, NBK06 text (reported by user), change language of localization will also translate all tree types of data, anoying autoscroll in RTF window of lexicon when context tip was displayed, BHS qere words caused bad detection of end of verse when module were prepared ....and many other. Thanks all who reported problems. Finished features in Davar3 ALPHA4: 1) Export of books, lexicons and dictionaries to file This modal dialog is an export tool for Davar files into printable format. Here follows the description parts of this dialog. Type of export: Select first, whether to export book, lexicon or dictionary. For dictionary, you can check "Opposite" - export mode that will be sorted according to words of opposite direction. File and range of export: According to previous option, you can select the file for export. Lexicons and dictionaries are always exported as All, and for books you can select the range of export or export only verses which are presented in actual verse list. Format of exported data: here can be selected TEXT or UNICODE TEXT or RTF format of exported data. Plain txt source option exports file to special format, where tags are presented and which is easy to parse and convert to any other format (e.g. using sed converter). Plain source file format description will be available in final Davar3 version,  together with  MDK ( M odule D evelopment K it) - package of tools for conversion of texts for Davar. In MDK, examples of conversions of some modules, examples of sed scripts and c sources of converters will be available. mDavar dictionary option is available only for dictionaries with Hebrew - export to MDD file for J2ME version mDavar program. In this case, select *.tab file of sorting no-Hebrew language of exported dictionary. Export tags: If file (book or lexicon) contains tagged text (Strong's, notes, variants, references, morphology,...) then here can select which tags will be exported - all / none / or those, which user selected as visible in the opened book window. Mark tags - for TXT / UNICODE exports - tags can be marked by some special characters (#,@,*,... etc) to distinguish tags in plain text. Usefull in cases, where formatting of text is not possible. Hebrew / Greek coding:  Internally, Davar3 uses non standard coding Hebrew/Greek. If exported text (RTF, TXT) is displayed by Davar fonts (HebrewUniversal and GreekUniversal) then all is working. Options to convert Hebrew and Greek to standard Win1255 and Win1253 encoding allows to use many standard fonts for print. For RTF exports in Win1255 or Win1253 - you can select font which will be referenced in RTF file in "RTF font options part" Note: RTF export of Hebrew in Davar encoding is not directed Right2Left, while if coded in Win1255, it has true R2L direction and can be processed in editor with R2L capabilities. Styles of book export: Formatting of  text and references can be done many ways, you can select one of seven predefined styles. Some  of them are good for quotation of small or big parts of texts. Other styles can be used for processing of exported texts. Short references check - abbreviations of book names will be used in references. Note: Styles window preview is not WYSIWYG preview. Full path to exported file or export to clipboard are mutual exclusive options - select file to export or check clipboard. Note: export to clipboard works now only for books. 2) Export to Unicode and distributed free fonts for print Exported files can be easily printed from word processor. There are no problems with Latin-based texts or Greek. For Hebrew it is good choice to export in Win1255 to TXT or RTF or perform export to Unicode. Obtained text is then in Right2Left direction. Tested R2L editors: OpenOffice 2.0 MS Word 2002 (Office XP) AbiWord - sometimes very slow for RTF import BabelPad - excellent free Unicode editor with many features - highly recommended ( url ) This version Davar3 include free Hebrew fonts - for nice print results. Here are preview of BHS text as was exported to Unicode and then opened in BabelPad. Reference font was set to Arial, Hebrew text was set to Arial, Ezra SIL and SBL Hebrew: Arial               Ezra SIL          SBL Hebrew   Note: Ezra SIL font must be included as whole package (~ 3MB). If you wish use this font, unpack TTF files first and install. Both fonts (Ezra SIL and SBL Hebrew) must be distributed free of charge and used for noncomercial purposes only.   3) Davar3 localizations Added Dutch (thanks to Esmé J. Smit ) and Russian (thanks to Alexei Nitsenko and Vladimir Marchenko ) localization files. Now, Davar3 is localised to 6 languages. Your help with new localizations is welcome - please contact us if you decide to translate Davar3. 4) Updated "Tip of the day" dialog Added button "Previous tip" and length of tip string is not limited to 127 characters. 5) Many bugs were fixed - thanks all testers for reports! Finished features in Davar3 ALPHA3: 1) Verse list  manager. This resizable nonmodal dialog helps you to organize Scripture verses in two panels (Main and Secondary). Each list has two parts - reference and preview. You can select one of the opened books as source for preview (English, Greek, Hebrew etc.). If preview book is closed or switched, preview is refreshed to other book when possible. Dialog is always topmost though you can turn visibility on/off from menu and toolbar. You can set position of "splitter" between main and secondary verse list, width of  "Reference" columns and size of dialog manually by mouse and this parameters are saved to configuration file. Number of verses in list and number of selected verses is in [] on the top. (In example: main list has 8 verses and 1 selected. * means that list was changed and not saved). Button with ">>>" or "<<<" arrows between lists is for quick move/copy of selected verses to opposite list. When pressed, selected verses are MOVED, with Ctrl key pressed, program will COPY verses. Each list has a description part (max. 63 characters) and can be saved and opened. Default extension of file is *.vl. Number of verses is not limited, and you can work with all Bible (~32 000) verses at very fast speed. Each reference can be presented in list only once. Click to verse will synchronize actual book and other books with synchronization set on. Only one list is active at a time - you can select the "Active list" radio button with the mouse by clicking it; or just click the verse list itself. List verses can be selected with the mouse. Click the verse for selection. To select individual verses hold the Ctrl key; To select a range of verses hold the Shift key (this is a working standard for the view component used in verse list). Available commands for verse list: (the following available commands; can be selected from combo box and applied to actual verse[s] after pressing OK button:) "Delete all verses" -  HINT: another way is to click on actual list and press Ctrl+Del "Insert range of verses"  "Insert results of search in book" -  HINT: check option "Insert results of search to list" in search dialog "Move selected verses" -  HINT: use ">>>" button to MOVE "Copy selected verses" -  HINT: use ">>>" button + Ctrl to COPY "Delete selected verses" -  HINT: another way is to select actual verse via radio button and press Del "Select all verses" "Invert selection" "Select common verses" "Select NOT common verses" Note: Keyboard selection using keys arrow up/down and Page Up/Down is disabled. For virtual list view (which was necessary to use for good speed) and owner draw features (to correctly display Hebrew and right-to left direction), keyboard selection was not reliable in some cases. Available source code examples suffer same problem. 2) Scroll position tip.  When you scroll in book window, small pink window with actual position is displayed. This will help you to navigate exact position in text. In final version, this option will be configurable, in present version, mature users can edit davar.cfg. 3) Davar3 splash screen. David Holubec was so kind and created nice splash screen for Davar3. You will see it when program starts for 5 sec. In final version, this option will be configurable, in present version, mature users can edit davar.cfg. 4) Many bugs were fixed - thanks all testers for reports! Finished features in Davar3 ALPHA2: 1) Library manager. This resizable modal dialog helps you to organize Davar files into logical "folders". Left part of dialog shows library tree. Basic types of data folders ( Books, Lexicons, Dictionaries, Audio ) can have up to 10 levels subfolders. For example, Books can be divided to Hebrew Scripures, Greek Scriptures, English Scriptures, ...etc. Right part shows files from left folder. You can drag&drop files from right window to left folders and subfolders if their types are compatible. Also, you can drag&drop folders in left tree. It is possible create new folders, edit names of folders and delete folders. After you like tree structure, Save to library.cfg file. This library tree is then available from left tree window of program and from menu. Configuration file library.cfg is text file and is possible to edit it manually in notepad-like editor. Although its format is simple, typos can cause crash of program - thus manual editing is not recommended. It is important to say, that operations with folders cannot affect any data files (delete or edit). You just create tree structure, where program on the start try to fit files, which find. New files will be placed into "root" of basic types, e.g. in Books folder. 2) Localization files. In \language folder are stored *.lng - text based localization files. It is well commented inside with instructions for translators. Languages can be switched in runtime, no restart is needed. In present time, Davar3 is localised into English, Czech and Potruguese. If you want localize program and create own .lng file, please contact author of program for more details. Any help with localization is welcome. 3) Command line navigator. This is tool for really quick and effective navigation in books. In toolbar editable-combo just type abbreviation of  biblical book and number of chapter and verse. "LED" indicator next edit combo will change colors: dark gray = text doesn't fit any reference in actual book window, orange = hits were found, but more than one and cannot determinate exact reference, green = reference found and no need to type more. Enter key will synchronize actual book window and all other books window, with synchronization. Navigator controls entered reference and existence of chapters and verses. Book abbreviations are stored in .lng file - translators can select up to 8 best abbreviations characteristic for each language. Combo navigator keeps history of typed references. For example, following English strings will work in navigator: 3j 1 5     3j1:9   2ti2-2    2ti2      2.timothy 2:3     re6      Jl,2,2      ...e.t.c. 4) Audio features. From Alpha2 version, Davar3 can play MP3 files, for example narration of texts in books. There are two ways of using MP3 files: I) Direct open and playing MP3. Use menu command Multimedia | Open MP3 audio... to select any file to play. Enabled multimedia toolbar buttons are: Play, Pause, Stop, Rev and Forward. In this mode, Davar3 works as common player. II) Synchronized player with text. For Scripture studies, there is need to synchronize text with MP3 stream. For this purpose, in \audio\ folder are stored *.aix files (audio indexes). AIX file is text file, which keeps relations between references and corresponding MP3 file offsets. Only one index file can be currently opened. For example, in Alpha2 version you will find: \audio\bhs.aix   and also \audio\bhs\21_ecclesiastes.mp3 bhs.aix is index file for Hebrew bible. Some parts of Bible are already in file indexed. 21_ecclesiastes.mp3 is audio. How to play audio: You can open BHS from Audio tree in the left part of program - doubleclick. Multimedia toolbar will be enabled. Now, open some Hebrew Bible text (BHS) and list book  Ecclesiastes (this is only Hebrew audio available in Davar3Alpha2). Tip: according feature 3) above, type "ecc" text (without "") in command line navigator and press Enter. In non-English localizations, abbreviation can be different. Now you are in Ecclesiastes 1:1 If  press first button of multimedia toolbar (symbol of speaker) then program try to play audio of actual verse of actual book. Second button is "Autoplay" function. It will also set first button to pressed and program try to play audio and scroll text in windows. Fifth and sixth buttons (rev, ff) will move to previous/next verse of actual book. Important: it is not recommended during playing audio change actual window, perform search, etc... Note:   bhs.aix file keeps indexed following books of Hebrew OT: Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Malachi . MP3 indexing tool If you know enough Hebrew and wish to help authors speed up indexing of rest MP3 files, use build up indexing tool and following way: 1) Backup bhs.aix. Be sure that you have necessary MP3 in \audio\bhs\ folder. For example you want to index: 02_exodus.mp3 2) Open just one book window (Biblia Hebraica text) and bhs.aix from left tree window 3) Click last button in multimedia toolbar - audio data indexing modal dialog will be displayed. On slow PC, it can take a while, until combo box is filled by references - please wait. 4) Now select reference, from where you want to start. In example, we want start from Exodus 1:1. When selected in combo, book window with Hebrew text is synchronized. 5) FIRST click to big button will start playing MP3. About 0.2 - 0.5 sec before you expect start of new verse (Exo 1:2), press button again. Window position is updated. Continue just clicking to button ....  good exercise for learning Hebrew :-) 6) When you want to end (MP3 can still play), just press Save button. Audio is stopped and you will find new references in combo. Can press Close button or go to point 4) 7) If you click button in bad point, DO NOT PANIC! Just press Save button, select from combo reference, where MP3 was indexed OK and go over critical part again. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL HELP US TO FINISH INDEXING OF MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF HEBREW OT. Thanks folks! 5)  Program configuration file. When program ends, automatically creates davar.cfg file. It is main configuration file, text based. Name of most items is self-explaining, you can affect program by editing of this file (only for mature Davar users, bad values can crash program!). In final version, this file will be created/edited via Options dialog. In present time, it is important that program store positions of all opened windows and positions in books, lexicons and dictionaries. Program can use more than one default path to \data\ and \audio\ folders where are stored files. You can add for example next path  PathData[1] to your CD/DVD drive, where in I:\Archive are folders \data\ and \audio\ - when Davar3 starts, it will search all paths and use files from paths. Last number is read-only flag (1) or read/write flag (0). PathUsed=2 PathData[0]=C:\Davar3,0 PathData[1]=I:\Archive,1 6)  Tip of the Day... There is no regular help file yet and this is the way, how to learn most important tips and tricks of Davar3. Informations provided here were carefully selected and we strongly recommend to read them . Finished features in Davar3 ALPHA1: DAVAR have implemented MDI (multiple document interface) for dictionaries, lexicons and books Up to 30 child windows can be opened, file can be opened in more windows Tree navigator on left side of main window for selection of files. Tree have system of "directories" where files of same kind can be stored. (similar as in Theophilos). Same structure is in main menu. Tree library manager is not done yet Text in books and lexicons is on the based of "tags", which control formatting, references and strong#. There are tags "italic", "bold", "raised", "translator notes", "unused words in original text", "Greek/Hebrew morphology", "Greek/Hebrew Strong", "colored Christ words", and other. This system is flexible and can be easily extended. Support for Greek, Hebrew and Latin based languages. Unicode is NOT implemented Toolbars for commands DICTIONARY: history of search strings in combo for each direction, synchronization with text (by double click), automatic turning direction for Hebrew/Greek/Latin based texts, filtering of listed words according selected pattern. Synchronization of dictionary while pattern is typed. LEXICON: history of search strings in combo, synchronization with text (by double click) OR by strong#, heading of records can keep now tagged text(e.g. references, strong#,..), filtering of listed words according selected pattern. Synchronization of lexicon while pattern is typed BOOK: history of search strings in combo, synchronization with other books of same type, text of books now include fully tagged text(e.g. references, strong#, greek, hebrew..) SEARCH: Now D3 have three types of search for lexicons and books: TEXT, STRONG and REFERENCE SEARCH. TEXT: search for any/all words or phrase, case sensitive/insensitive. Ignore Hebrew vowels option. Range of search and handle history of ranges. STRONG: two types - strong# and "Strong meaning" of pattern - this mean, if you enter pattern "king*" it will search and print all words and its Strong# in list, which fit to this pattern. Range of search and handle history of used ranges. REFERENCE: search for occurence of references in text - single (Gen 1:1) or range (Gen 1:1 - Gen 1:3). Usefull for studies in commentaries. Range of search and handle history of ranges. Calculate numeric value of selected Greek/Hebrew text Hebrew keyboard support. Small Hebrew/Greek table for typing by mouse Tooltips Most functions available from context menu (right button click) Implemented, but disabled features in Davar3 ALPHA1: Up to 10 paths with datafiles. The files from main \data\ path are preferred if found duplicite ones. This make possible to store and run many modules on CD/DVD/flash/network drive and have most actual in Davar3 directory only. DAVAR3 is freeware! BACK