What's new in King James Pure Bible Search 3.0.0

Oct 25, 2014
  • New Text Rendering/Formatting options (including the very much requested Verse-Per-Line display mode)
  • Many new Copy Formatting Options
  • Results Drag-and-Drop support
  • Search support for Colophons and Superscriptions
  • Spanish Bible Database (Reina-Valera Gómez)
  • Multi-language User Interface (English, Spanish, French, and German)
  • Webster's 1913 Dictionary in addition to Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  • Matching Phrase Lists
  • Speed/Performance improvements
  • Much More!

New in King James Pure Bible Search 2.0.0 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • User Notes Files to support text highlighting, note taking, and passage cross-references
  • Much much faster text searching and search results rendering
  • Multiple Search Window Support
  • Search Within capability to let user select specific parts of the Bible to search
  • Search Phrase 'OR' operator and Phrase-Exclusions
  • Details Popup Window Push-Pin to tack the Details Window in place
  • SoundEx support for the auto-completion list to allow the user to enter a word the way they think it sounds and still find it in the list
  • Improved passage entering support for entering a passage reference textually as well as via drop lists
  • User Defined Text color controls and Text Brightness adjustment (useful for people with light sensitivity and dry-eye conditions)
  • New database format that's about 2/3rds the size of the previous format, but with improved rendering capabilities
  • Webster-1828 Dictionary with auto-word locate
  • User selectable copy options to control the format of the copied text
  • Additions to support foreign language Bible text database files -- note: Foreign language translations will NOT be included in the 2.0 Release due to time constraints. It's planned for the 3.0 Release.
  • Memory usage optimizations
  • Rewrite of the main graphical elements to split it into subparts in preparation for mobile release
  • Additional User Controls and User Settable Options
  • Stealth Installation Mode for use within persecuted countries and organizations

New in King James Pure Bible Search 1.1.1 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • Fixed the Ctrl-Plus and Ctrl-Minus shortcut keys for zooming Scripture Browser and Details Popup
  • Set the Detail Popup to remember its font size when the user Zooms it with Ctrl-Plus and/or Ctrl-Minus (or Control-MouseWheel) so that it stays set on future popups.
  • Changed "Copy as Verses" to work with the current Scripture Browser cursor position when there is no selection.
  • Moved the User Database (kjvuser.s3db) to the User's Application Data folder so that it can be updated and maintained consistently on all three platforms. Changed the copy of kjvuser.s3db that ships with KJPBS to only be a template for building the initial User Database in their home folder.
  • Complete Native Builds and Installers for Linux and Mac!
  • Updated Documentation, porting to LibreOffice and dropped MS Office use
  • New graphics and splash screen (Thanks Laura!)
  • Shipping DejaVu fonts and using programmatic font loading on all platforms so the look-and-feel is consistent on all three.
  • No longer registering shipped fonts with the Window System. They are now loaded programmatically only.
  • Added saving of the application window-control font to preserve look-and-feel when relaunching the app.
  • Changed the command-line arguments flag from / to - due to our new Linux and Mac platforms.
  • Fixed a bug in the Font dialogs that could cause it to hang on some platforms and switched to native font dialogs. Qt seems to still have a bug where the Normal/Book/Regular font style doesn't properly select
  • Fixed database memory leak issue with the query object. It was minor since the database is only used at startup.