Hover your mouse over each one to discover its purpose. Configuration settings – There are tooltips for each of the fields/buttons in the configuration dialog so I won’t elaborate completely here.ini files so one could change the tooltips themselves, if that were desired, to something that was a better explanation. The tooltips are all part of the language. So, you kind of have to explore at first and be willing to leave your mouse over a field or button to find out its purpose. Tooltips (“help”) – Instead of authoring a help file (too much work), I created lots of tooltips for the various buttons, etc.If it can’t find the OpenSong files, it will give you a message and you’ll have to go into the configuration and set those paths manually. If it succeeds it will automatically create its database (you’ll see the progress dialog if so). On the first execution, OSS will try and locate the installation of OpenSong and from OpenSong’s parameters will try and set the location of OpenSong’s song files.The executable does not need an installation of AutoIt3 or any other specific. Execute “OpenSongSearch.exe” (3 is the AutoIt3 source code and can be executed if you have an installation of AutoIt3.Vista/7 – C:UsersyourusernameDocumentsOpenSongOpenSongSearch Windows XP – C:Documents and SettingsyourusernameMy DocumentsOpenSongOpenSongSearch The zip file has a relative path of “OpenSongSearch” in it. Unzip the zip file to your OpenSong documents folder.System performance will depend upon system capacities, but we have it running with thousands of songs on an “average” XP box at church and it’s satisfactory. Let me know if anyone gets it to work under Wine. I’ve not tested it on Wine, but I have my doubts. I believe it should work on any Windows platform which can run OpenSong. I’ve tested this on Windows XP (French and English versions) and Windows 7. OpenSongSearch 2.0 is a complete rewrite and enhancement over the original version (assuming you ever saw it!). Also we wanted add more songs but the performance was suffering on the queries and the database update was reeeeealllly sloooooooI dumped my Sqlite database and got on the the XML band wagon. Another person made some modifications and gave me some ideas to improve it. I originally released version 1 of OSS in 2007. So for us OpenSong fits well except for its glaring lack of a full text search. There are projection programs which already have full text searches but their projection interface is not as flexible for switching between songs as OpenSong and no other program has as vast a repertoire of songs in the French language. Songs may be begun anywhere within the song and sometimes we mix and match verses from one song with another. We have worship leaders whose repertoire is somewhat dated and others who stay with more recent songs. OpenSong has a decent following in France and these standard song books have all been converted to OpenSong format.Ĭonsequently, in our services and worship tabernacles we need to be able to pull up any song at any time from a database of thousands of songs. At our small church in France, we have a very free worship style and France has a number of standard song books that virtually all churches use. Necessity was the mother of this invention. This allows search results to be added automatically into set lists both in set mode and projection mode. AutoIt3 provides the user interface and the Windows dialog manipulation utilities that allows OSS to “interface” with certain OpenSong dialogs. OSS is written in AutoIt3 and uses the BaseX XML database (OSS is packaged with version 6.3.5 of BaseX) to store a copy of the OpenSong “database” of songs that can be queried against very flexibly. The purpose of OpenSongSearch (hereafter I’ll just call it OSS!) is to provide a full text search capability to OpenSong on the Windows platform (I’d be thrilled if someone would integrate it into OpenSong in RealBasic so that it would be available directly in OpenSong and be available on the other platforms).
OpenSongSearch is a companion utility to the OpenSong lyric projection program. Introduction History System Requirements Installation Basic Usage Screen-shots FAQ Forums Download Introduction
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