Dexios Bible Study Tool / Blog: Recent posts

It has been years since I've last touched this project. But in that time I've been experimenting with many web technologies and other applications, and have been waiting for many of these things to mature to what they are today. Indeed, they have inspired me to scrap this project and start anew but with these newer techs. As a result, I've started work on a new project called Manna. It, too, will be cross platform, but will make things so much easier to develop. It'll be split up into a couple of parts: the desktop app and the server app. The server app helps separate much of the logic and allows me to be far more creative with UI/frontend stuff. Plus, the server will also allow many other projects to be just as creative. But, anyway, enough talk. The projects can be found on my github repos.... read more

Plug-in Support

Plug-in support has been the main focus of the current development for DBST. The next, upcoming release of DBST makes use of Qt 5.2, which allows us to design a plug-in system that greatly surpasses the one we had previously. C++ knowledge may be useful to have when designing plug-ins for this version, but it is not required! Plug-ins will be made up of merely QML and JavaScript. This is not as limiting as it may come off as at first. Indeed, Qt 5.2 has many great improvements to the Qt QML module, and the JavaScript portion will have access to jQuery (+UI), Twitter Bootstrap, URI, and more.... read more