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.. title: openlp.org 2.0 is cooking!
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.. slug: 2008/12/01/openlporg-20-is-cooking
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.. date: 2008-12-01 10:12:09 UTC
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.. description:
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Over the last few months about 8 people have been quietly working on a
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new version of openlp.org: Version 2.0. This version is being written in
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Python, so that it will work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X - a feature
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that has been requested many times.
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In addition to being cross-platform, openlp.org 2.0 has a plugin system,
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where people can write their own plugins if they wish. These plugins
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hook into openlp.org and allow plugin developers to do the same things
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that the core system does. In fact, the core system (Songs, Bible
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verses, etc) are all plugins themselves.
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One thing about writing these applications that is frustrating, is that
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when you start developing them you have to write a lot of code that
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doesn't appear on the user interface. You need to basically lay a base
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for the program, and only afterward when you get to the user interface
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part, can you see the fruits of your labour.
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I'm pleased to say that we are starting to see the fruits of our labour!
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Last night I got the Songs plugin to show it's panel in the Media
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manager, and to show the song edit window when you click on the Edit
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button. It might not sound like much, but we've had to do a fair amount
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of coding just to get to that point.
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Unfortunately we do still have a lot of work to do, but it's good to see
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that we're getting somewhere.
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