QuickSword Presentation Software
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 being installed.
QuickSword version 2 has proven to be stable and will continue to be available while the next version is developed.
What is new in version 3:
Improved bible search
Entire bible presentation is saved in one file
Support for copyright display and compatible with CCLI
Unicode support in songs and bibles
Search for pictures on the internet and instantly project them
Features
Compatible with any computer capable of running Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0
Windows Vista already includes .Net Framework 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.
These updated instructions are for QuickSword3.
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@QuickSword.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
2.0.0.33 installed Nov 4th 2007 for testing and full time use
2.0.0.120 public release Dec 29th 2007
2.0.0.121 bug fix in the songs file menu Jan 26th 2008
2.0.0.122 song search text is highlighted automatically after sending a song Jan 14th 2010
2.0.0.126 changed a projector setting <autowordwrapmaxseg=50 changed to 25> Jan 23rd 2010
2.0.0.128 'qswait.tmp notice message' Feb 7th 2010
2.1.0.130 drag and drop added to Bible program Feb 21st 2010
2.1.0.132 minor update Sep 1st 2010
2.1.0.133 minor update Nov 29th 2010
2.1.0.134 minor update Dec 17th 2010
3.0.0.167 installed May 1st 2011 for testing
3.0.0.255 installed May 22nd 2011 for testing and full time use
3.0.0.353 installed July 19th 2011 at Northeast Christian College for regular use and continued testing
3.0.0.353 public release July 20th 2011 for testing
3.0.1.388 beta relase August 27 2011
Known bugs in version 2
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 will be fixed in QuickSword version 3.
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.
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
QuickSword © 2006-2011 Bruce Higgins