QuickSword was written to quickly and easily display songs, pictures, and bible scriptures on a projector during church services. QuickSword is dedicated to the worship of, and to the sharing of the word of God, the one and only God, Jesus Christ. QuickSword has been in regular use at its home church, the Cardville United Pentecostal Church since February 25, 2006.
My goal is to make QuickSword the easiest program to use. Someone who has never used it will be an expert in just a few minutes. Simply Simple.
The program will automatically check for and install the latest version after installed.
Features
Written for Windows Vista.
Compatible with XP, 2000, 98 or any computer capable of running .Net Framwork v2.0
You can project songs. Look here
here and
here to see what it looks like.
You can project bible scriptures. The program looks like this. You can display a single scripture or you can display dual scriptures.
Multiple Bible Translations are included.
These instructions show you how to search for bible scriptures.
You can create a presentation and add pictures too.
You can use a presentation remote like the one we use.
Create a presentation and export to Microsoft Powerpoint.
Open the Powerpoint outline and you will see all your scriptures, no copying and pasting.
If you are connected to the internet when you run QuickSword, it will check for and download updates in the background.
See QuickSword at home.
Requirements
Windows 98 or above
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Dual display with the second connected to your projector
To see your display settings, right click the desktop and select properties.
You can see what it looks like here.
Comments of all kinds are welcome. Bruce@TheMaine.net
QuickSword History
QuickChurch version 1.0 installed Feb 25th 2006 for testing and full time use
QuickChurch version 1.68 public release April 23rd 2006
QuickChurch version 1.87 last release
Permission to quote
AMP,
NASB,
LBLA,
NBLH
granted by Lockman Foundation Jul 20th 2007
Title changed to QuickSword Jul 20th 2007
www.QuickSword.org registered Jul 20th 2007
www.QuickSword.net registered Jul 28th 2007
www.QuickSword.biz registered Aug 1st 2008
www.QuickSword.info registered Aug 1st 2008
www.QuickSword.us registered Aug 1st 2008
QuickSword version 2.0.0.33 installed Nov 4th 2007 for testing
QuickSword version 2.0.0.120 public release Dec 29th 2007
QuickSword version 2.0.0.121 bug fix in the songs file menu Jan 26th 2008
QuickSword version 2.0.0.122 song search text is highlighted automatically after sending a song Jan 14th 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.123 contains version 3 for testing Jan 17th 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.124 version 3 test update Jan 20th 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.125 version 3 test update Jan 23rd 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.126 changed a projector setting in version 2 <autowordwrapmaxseg=50 changed to 25> Jan 23rd 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.127 version 3 test update Feb 7th 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.128 version 2 'qswait.tmp notice message' Feb 7th 2010
QuickSword version 2.0.0.129 failed test Feb 21st 2010
QuickSword version 2.1.0.130 version 2 drag and drop added to Bible program Feb 21st 2010
QuickSword version 2.1.0.132 minor update Sep 1st 2010
Known bugs
Searching the bible for "kjv sse jes wep" should return results of:
kjv Matthew 26 : 75
sse Matthew 26 : 75
kjv Mark 14 : 72
sse Mark 14 : 72
kjv John 11 : 35
sse John 11 : 35
This is not the case. Version two only returns the three results from KJV and excludes SSE. This has been fixed in QuickSword version 3 and will be released soon.
February 7th 2010, another bug has been found. When installing QuickSword version 2, a temporary file is created in the root directory called "qswait.tmp". Once QuickSword is installed and running, it is suppose to delete "qswait.tmp", which is a flag that allows the installation program to close and cleanup. On machines with Windows Vista, QuickSword is denied access to delete "qswait.tmp". This leaves the black installation box on the screen. It is ok to close the black box. QuickSword will have installed properly, and all temporary installation files will have been deleted. The only remaining remnant is to manually delete "qswait.tmp" from the root directory of your hard drive. This issue will be addressed with version 3.
QuickSword version 3 coming soon
I have begun working on QuickSword again. Over the past two years I have improved many of the internal functions of the program. Version 3 will look and work the same, just better. It will also have support for all languages of the world. Thanks to the Lockman Foundation for thier support, version 3 is now compatible with and will include the spanish translations NBLH and LBLA.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 KJV
