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State of the Application: OpenLP 2.0 revision 600

By raoul on 15 October 2009

Hi Folks,

I just thought I'd give you all a quick run-down of the current state of OpenLP 2.0.

We've been working hard on version 2.0, which is written in Python, using Qt4 as it's GUI, and the PyQt4 binding to facilitate this. Yesterday evening we reached another minor milestone when we committed revision 600 to trunk!

Some of the implemented features include:

  • Cross platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD
  • Plugin architecture with ability to switch plugins on and off on the fly
  • Song plugin, with verse ordering for songs
  • Bibles plugin with web and OSIS (Sword Project) import capabilities
  • Media plugin for dealing with audio and video
  • Custom Slides plugin for custom text items that are not songs (like liturgy)
  • Image plugin, with multiple images aggregated into a single item in the Service Manager (great for slideshows!)
  • Presentations plugin which integrates with PowerPoint, PowerPoint Viewer and OpenOffice.org Impress1
  • Audit plugin to track song usage
  • Remote plugin, for remote control (great for remote nursery alerts!)
  • Nursery alerts
  • Customisable slide themes
  • A separate Bible theme can be selected

1. No support for Keynote yet, as none of the developers has a Mac. If you have a Mac and fancy yourself a developer, *please* contact us!

Some of the features we will be implementing:

  • CCLI SongSelect integration (coming soon!)
  • Dual Bible translations per slide
  • Much better internationalisation support

We are still a long way off from a stable release, but it's really encouraging to see how far we've gotten, and I'm really proud of the team for all the work they've done so far!

If you're interested in just chatting with the guys, come join us in #openlp.org on Freenode.

If you're interested in helping out, join us in IRC, and have a look at our development wiki: http://wiki.openlp.org/

Re: State of the Application: OpenLP 2.0 revision 600

By Binu Mathew on 18 October 2009

Raoul,

Can I use/import songs in Word format with non-english fonts and display them in the same non-english fonts in openlp.

Thx,
binu

On the fly editing

By dajomu on 23 October 2009

Is it possible to do on the fly editing?

Re: On the fly editing

By gushie on 23 October 2009

Hi dajomu,

It would help in the future if you could ask your questions in the forums. But to answer your question:

In the current version of openlp, you can already right click on the live song in the order of service to edit it. When you save, the changes will be reflected immediately in the live display.

We hope to implement all v1 features in v2.

Jonathan.

Re: State of the Application: OpenLP 2.0 revision 600

By TRB143 on 25 October 2009

Binu

This should work but is not easy for us to test.  The Song editor should accept any text and display it.  If you can test this and let us know it would be great.

The Song Imports are not available at present but cut and paste from Word, Notepad etc is.