Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
(Acts 17:11)

Latest update:
July 15,'09

ver 2.51.0 (beta) Spanish GUI for use with The Lockman Foundation's LBLA and NBLH. 2009-Apr-12

ver 2.50.1 Glitch/bug fixes for Windows desktop PC version. 2008-Dec-29

• ConserveMemory bug.
• Rearrange several menu-groups for better consistency.

ver 2.50.0 'Release Bundle' for Windows desktop PC's available 2008-Dec-23

• References layout showing parallel Bibles.
• Integration of BerBible and SwordBible for improved user interface.

ver 2.41.1 for Windows desktop PC's available 2008-Sep-2

• Show Book+ChapNum at start of chapter when headings toggled on
• LBLA and NBLH Spanish Bibles available from The Lockman Foundation
• Preliminary Spanish GUI
• Don't highlight matches if RegEx in effect
• Words-of-Christ-in-Red for GW and NKJV
• View menu-items disabled if markup not available for the translation
• RMB context menu for TextViewer has items disabled if markup not available for the translation
• Fix several glitches in Bible modules

ver 2.41.0 for Windows desktop PC's available 2008-Aug-08

• NASB ©1995 from The Lockman Foundation available
• Over-ride to show Book-Chap-Tree
• Menu-item to visit InVese homepage
• Minimal and Standard Layouts
• Available Bibles menu item within Translations top level menu

ver 2.40.1 for Windows desktop PC's available 2008-Jun-20

• NET ©2006 from bible.org available
• GW ©1995, published by God's Word to the Nations available
• RST (Russian Synodal Translation) available as release candidate. User interface in Russian, including controls, menu items, context sensitive help, installer, tutorials, and most documentation.
• Better handling of "No matches found"
• Minimize/Maximize more standard and co-exists with "What's This ?-Mark" icon for context sensitive help.

ver 2.40 for Windows desktop PC's available 2008-Mar-21

• NKJV ©1982 from Thomas Nelson, Inc. available
• Significantly improved 'rendering' of indentation for poetry
• Span-near-verses ... allows searches that include up to 5 "near" verses
• Regular Expressions ... interface to PCRE ver 7.4
• Additional keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed several 'glitches' for ESV related to 'passage headings' that are actually within a verse
• Smaller installers for several Bible 'starter-kits' under 1.44mb (fit on floppy)
• Improved encryption
• Improved copy/paste using ^C and RMB (right mouse button).

ver 2.31b for Pocket-PC released 2007-Dec-01

• Fixed minor glitch with MRU and Find button

ver 1.10 for Palm hand-held pda devices released 2007-Nov-30

• Includes ESV (English Standard Version)
• Option for showing Notes
• Animated slideshow demonstrates basic funtionality

ver 1.00 for Palm hand-held pda devices released 2007-Oct-16

• Includes KJV (King James Version)
• Also works with Treo smart-phones

ver 2.31 for Windows desktop PC's released 2007-Oct-11

• Primary search options always visible
• Better handling of initial app size after installation ... based on monitor resolution
• More flexible Font-Size options
• Disable Timings from View menu-group
• Update documentation and tutorials to sync with release
• Bug/glitch fixes
• Shared code-base with Pocket-PC version
• Removed incremental-search capability

ver 2.31 for Pocket-PC released 2007-Oct-6

• Bug/glitch fixes
• Shared code-base with Desktop version
• Removed Incremental-Search capability (minimal advantage with Clipboard improvements)

ver 2.30 for Pocket-PC released 2007-Sep-5

• Revised file format for smaller 'memory footprint'. (Note that the file format is incompatible with version 2.2x, so a re-installation is required to return to version 2.2x.)
• Copy/Paste to and from the ClipBoard
• Tap-and-Hold context menus
• Switch back and forth between Portrait and Landscape orientation
• Better handling to locate Bible translations on flash-cards

ver 2.22 for Windows desktop PC's released 2007-Mar-14

• Revisions to ESV
• Non-visible changes:
  • number of bug fixes
  • VisualTest script for q/a expanded

ver 2.21 released 2006-Dec-16

• Smart-MRU keeps track of Most Recently Uses entries to simplify repeat of previous verse lookups and searches
• ^PgUp and ^PgDn can change from end of one book to the next book
• Non-visible changes:
  • number of bug fixes
  • VisualTest script for q/a expanded

ver 2.20u released 2006-Sep-15 with ESV

• Comes with ESV Bible (English Standard Version) ©2001 from Good News Publishing. I consider this an excellent Bible with the accuracy of the NASB-95 and the readability of the NIV.
• Pocket-PC with ESV available as of Sep 23, 2006.
• Display publisher notes, chapter headings, and paragraph headings
• Search is dramatically faster (and was fast before). On a reasonably modern computer, Incremental Searching does a search after every character (after the 5th letter)
• Search word(s) MRU (most recently used) simplifies going back to a Search or Verse-Reference. These are preserved when BerBible is closed and restarted.
• Expanded pop-up menu using the RMB (right mouse button) in the text-area.
• Incremental Search causes FindSelection to happen immediately. (double-click on a word in the TextViewer, or drag to select part of a word, or several words).
• Drop-down combo-box for selection of translation is wide enough to show all of the translation name (many were truncated before).
• My Personal Bible mechanism allows use of alternative Bibles not otherwise recognized by BerBible
• Website and documentation updated, including basic tutorial and new features tutorial
• Non-visible changes:
  • Variant of Boyer-Moore-Horspool search algorithm speeds up searches signficantly.
  • More flexible handing of memory buffer for translations with large file-size
  • number of bug fixes
  • VisualTest script for q/a greatly expanded

ver 2.13t released 2006-Aug-12

• Visible changes:
  • Install in C:\Program Files\SofStuf\BerBible and C:\Program Files\SofStuf\BbLibrary
  • Selectable fonts
  • Find-Range-Include options expanded to From Last GoTo VerseRef
  • One-time shortcuts expanded to allow single quote, starting book number, and bypass of Options Dialog
  • Tutorial and documentation updated
• Non-visible changes:
  • HdrCapTag-gap file format speeds up search elasped time by 2x to 4x
  • number of bug fixes

ver 2.12s released 2006-July-24

• Visible changes:
  • Implement visual formatting (word of Christ in red, paragraph grouping, poetic line breaks, italics for added words).
  • The Options Dialog provides separate checkbox options rather than a single checkbox.
  • One-time shortcuts for case sensitive, phrase, partial words, and all words searches
• Non-visible changes:
  • tuned search algorithm reduces search elasped time by 50% to 70%
  • caching available translations reduces time to lanuch by about 50%
  • binary search to resolve 700+ book-name abbreviations rather than linear search
  • different VPL format with embedded codes for visual formatting
  • number of bug fixes

ver 2.11r released 2006-Jan

• bug fixes
• speed improvements
• preliminary changes for encryption/compression

ver 2.10p released 2005-Oct-6

• CRichEdit implemented for better appearance
• Virtual CListCtrl speeds-up search results
• Hybrid Help (HtmlHelp for F1 and WinHelp for context sensitive help)
• NextPage / PrevPage from RMB and shortcuts
• Translation ComboBox on main application window (not just OptionsDialog)
• Start and End Quotes ("...") indicates PhraseSearch for just this search
• SlowComputer Option to avoid slow processing
• Improved speed with common words with Hide
• Reduce flicker
• 'Flat' controls for more modern appearance
• RMB for 'Search-For-Selected' word(s)

ver 2.00n released 2005-May-02

• GoTo-VerseReference (e.g. John 3:16)
• Options for layout arrangements
• Bitmapped buttons
• Expanded documenation
• Hover ToolTips
• Quasi-parallel version viewing
• Improved shortcuts, including F3
• Expanded VisTest regression suite
• Code in-place to allow NT only

ver 1.4x released 2005-Feb

• Websters and Young's Literal Bible

ver 1.31m released 2004-Jul

• Akjv + Asv + Bbe + Kjv + Web
• Improved Nsis installer with components
• Keyboard accelerator shortcuts
• Qarbon viewlets for animated slideshows
• Detect possibly corrupt vpl files
• Help with more direct access to WinHelp and Internet enabled
• Better documentation
• Better primary website www.berbible.org
• Better support at groups.yahoo.com/group/berbible
• Expanded VisTest regression suite
• Doxygen embedded documenation
• Documenation for incorporating other Bibles

ver 1.22j released 2004-May

• Smaller/simpler OptionsDialog
• ToolTips for SearchResults
• Direct GoTo from SearchResults CList with highliting
• Quasi-tabbed-proppages for Books and SearchResults

ver 1.13g released 2004-April

• Immediate search after options

ver 1.00a released 2004-Jan

ver 0.90b Beta 2003-Dec

ver 0.80a Alpha 2003-Dec

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