Windows Mobile 6.5: Ward Tools or Scriptures?

I've just acquried a new Windows Phone (Verizon's HTC Imagio). It works like a charm (very iPhone like!).

I installed Ward Tools, what a nice tool! However, the one thing that isn't working is the ability to touch scroll through the ward list. It doesn't seem to let me scroll down beyond one page without losing lines from the list. Anyone have it successfully working?

Also, I'm trying to find a scripture app that runs on WIndows Mobile 6.5. Anyone have any suggestions?

chadke wrote:Also, I'm trying to find a scripture app that runs on WIndows Mobile 6.5. Anyone have any suggestions?

Have patience with this one and you will get what you are looking for.

That sounds promising.

I'm always game to beta-test something like that should it be necessary.

chadke wrote:I've just acquried a new Windows Phone (Verizon's HTC Imagio). It works like a charm (very iPhone like!).

I installed Ward Tools, what a nice tool! However, the one thing that isn't working is the ability to touch scroll through the ward list. It doesn't seem to let me scroll down beyond one page without losing lines from the list. Anyone have it successfully working?

Also, I'm trying to find a scripture app that runs on WIndows Mobile 6.5. Anyone have any suggestions?

I suggest you put this question to the Ward Tools discussion group. (http://groups.google.com/group/wardtools/) There are now about 300 participantsand at least one of them might be able to help you. I have learned a lot of good stuff from the discussions on the group.

chadke wrote:I've just acquried a new Windows Phone (Verizon's HTC Imagio). It works like a charm (very iPhone like!).

Also, I'm trying to find a scripture app that runs on WIndows Mobile 6.5. Anyone have any suggestions?

Congrats! The Imagio is a great. I tried it out at the Verizon store and was very impressed! The 480x800 resolution makes the display look VERY nice and the touch responsiveness is the best I've seen on a Windows Mobile device. Anyway, if you just need something that works, I recommend Yanceyware. You can get all the scriptures for it and it works fine. It's just not very finger friendly...but from the sounds of it (at least based on what mkmurray said) that will be remedied soon enough!

For scriptures, you can use MarkMyScriptures, or the plucker reader. There are more listed at http://lds.org/handheld/0,18493,5299-1,00.html.

mkmurray wrote:Have patience with this one and you will get what you are looking for.

I had heard that the church is working on an official release for mobile scriptures. Is there a thread following this or is there any update/details on this?

danfranklin wrote:I had heard that the church is working on an official release for mobile scriptures. Is there a thread following this or is there any update/details on this?

The wiki contains information on the two such projects:

• IPhone Scriptures Application
• Mobile Scriptures Palm Pre

If you are interested specifically in the Windows Mobile platform (the topic of this thread), I would simply note that the iPhone Scriptures Application page does mention that "Concepts, code, and ideas learned with the iPhone application will be leveraged for other platforms, such as the Android, Blackberry, and other platforms."

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I'm looking for one to go on my new windows mobile phone, but in looking for a up to date one with functionality similar to the iPhone, I stumbled across a few posts mentioning the church was working on one and because of that they have stopped developing it. I was looking more for a Scripture Application not just a reader. It's unfortunate for me that the iPhone is the more popular device recently and in turn I will have to wait for something to come out for Windows Mobile 6.5 (hopefully something that will take advantage of the new functionality).

chadke wrote:I've just acquried a new Windows Phone (Verizon's HTC Imagio). It works like a charm (very iPhone like!).

I installed Ward Tools, what a nice tool! However, the one thing that isn't working is the ability to touch scroll through the ward list. It doesn't seem to let me scroll down beyond one page without losing lines from the list. Anyone have it successfully working?

Also, I'm trying to find a scripture app that runs on WIndows Mobile 6.5. Anyone have any suggestions?

I have enjoyed Yanceyware for scriptures and other manuals. I just installed it in an emulator for 6.5, so I think it will work. Emulators work different than the real thing, so can't make any promises.

http://www.yanceyware.com/products/reader_download.htm

I've tried Yanceyware, and while it works, it doesn't really take advantage of the touch interface. You can touch scroll, for example, but only by dragging the vertical scroll bar rather than by touch scrolling the page. That's the kind of thing missing.

I think it would be a very good solution were it optimized for touch and the better looking screen.

Thanks though for the suggestion.

Posting this incase you don't have a workaround.

I was wanting yanceware to work with scrolling and found someone had a workaround posted here, http://yanceyware.com/support/showpost. ... stcount=20

My scriptures in yanceware now scroll with windows mobile 6.5. I then checked wardtools and scrolling is working in that as well - bonus.

mkmurray wrote:Have patience with this one and you will get what you are looking for.

Three months later....

jtantley wrote:Three months later....

The project was just barely starting 2 and 1/2 months ago. The project is still being worked on. It is an official Church-sponsored project. The hope is to have a beta publicly available in the next month or two. The other mobile platforms a little more farther along.

mkmurray wrote:The project was just barely starting 2 and 1/2 months ago. The project is still being worked on. It is an official Church-sponsored project. The hope is to have a beta publicly available in the next month or two. The other mobile platforms a little more farther along.

Wondering if there's any update on the status of this project.

Also, you mentioned other "mobile platforms" -- besides the iPhone, does that mean development for an Android application is further along than the Windows Mobile app?

jtantley wrote:Wondering if there's any update on the status of this project.

Also, you mentioned other "mobile platforms" -- besides the iPhone, does that mean development for an Android application is further along than the Windows Mobile app?

The mobile scriptures projects are all tracked on the wiki. See Mobile Scriptures for links to all the different platforms.

Alan_Brown wrote:The mobile scriptures projects are all tracked on the wiki. See Mobile Scriptures for links to all the different platforms.

The link doesn't provide much detailed information on its progress.

I'm hoping that the windows mobile version is not far behind. The "Mobile Scriptures" link doesn't provide any clues on status. Anyone here know?

The Windows Mobile application is far behind if comparing against the iPhone version. The core functionality and logic is in place, but the next milestone will be focused on aesthetics and user experience.

yfisaqt wrote:The Windows Mobile application is far behind if comparing against the iPhone version. The core functionality and logic is in place, but the next milestone will be focused on aesthetics and user experience.

I wish there was something I could do to help, but a programmer I'll never be. Any idea when/if any beta's will be available?

stirmac wrote:I wish there was something I could do to help, but a programmer I'll never be. Any idea when/if any beta's will be available?

WE would dearly love to say when it will be available but in the last 8 months it has proven it would have been wrong to give an indication in case we came across another hurdle to overcome (and there have been a few).

But be rest assurred that the project is actively being developed. Much research, coding etc has already taken place but as mentioned there is now the UI to work on and it is being worked on.

The iPhone team has done a GREAT job with their application but with the Windows Mobile project there are a number of extras to consider.

One is to try to get away from the "windows look and feel" with tiny buttons and make it more "finger friendly" etc.

Another one is that with Windows Mobile you dont just get one phone, one screen size and one O/S version but multiple versions of O/S, multiple screen sizes, multiple models, multiple default browsers and also having both Pocket PC's, Smartphones etc all with and without wifi, data plans etc.

Taking all this into account and trying to support as many as possible can take up a lot of time. We would therefore want to explore all the options right from the beginning and know what we release is the best we can offer.

I cannot promise we will support all versions of all models but we are certainly working towards trying to do as many as possible.

Be rest assured that there are some great volunteers working on the project and they are all keen to finish it soon.

Yes, I'm looking for one to go on my new windows mobile phone, but in looking for a up to date one with functionality similar to the iPhone, I stumbled across a few posts mentioning the church was working on one and because of that they have stopped developing it. I was looking more for a Scripture Application not just a reader. It's unfortunate for me that the iPhone is the more popular device recently and in turn I will have to wait for something to come out for Windows Mobile 6.5 (hopefully something that will take advantage of the new functionality).

There has been some activity for the Windows Mobile platform. The following link takes you to the project page where a "developer's" version is available to try.

https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/Gos ... ows_Mobile

It addmittedly has some bugs and missing a lot of the hoped for functionality. Where it stands now, it is approaching the same capability as the yanceyware product, but at least there is progress and some indication that the intent is to make it similar in capability to the iphone version.

Regards,
Stirling