Thursday, September 5, 2013

Scripture Scroller!

In our family, we most often have scripture study in front of the home theater PC (HTPC) with the audio available from http://scriptures.lds.org.  We like to follow along as the scriptures are read to us.  One problem we've had, though, is that our keyboard for the HTPC is a little flaky, and keeping the screen up-to-date with the audio is inconvenient.

The problem-solver in me woke up and decided to find a way to automate that process.  So I came up with a javascript to solve that problem for me (in Chrome, at least).  You can analyse the source of this page if you're interested in what it is, but to use it, drag the link [Scripture Scroller] to your bookmark bar.  Then when you've loaded a scripture page on LDS.org, hit that bookmark and as long as the audio is playing, the page will scroll along with it.  You can hit to start or stop the audio.

Let me know if it works and how you like it!

By the way, I've tested it on a couple of other pages where you can play the audio that is the text on the screen and it seems like it works there as well.




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