4.1 Beta 10: First three items on shortcut bar context menu are of mixed relevance for shortcuts to

I have among the icons on my shortcut bar one for the command "Close all." If you right click on "Close all" you see the three standard items on the context menu: Open, Open in a new tab, and Open in a floating window.

These three are meaningless for the command "Close all." You can't open "close all" at all, let alone in a new tab or a floating window. These three items should not be available on the menu for commands where it makes no sense.

Other examples of where some of those commands don't make sense or are not behaving the way one might expect them to:

Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery: all three do make sense in this case, but Open in a floating window is not working that way. It opens in a new tab.

A shortcut to any saved Layout: Open makes sense and is the only one of the commands that works; it doesn't make sense to open a layout in a tab, since a tab is something that's within a layout. Indeed that command does nothing and should be removed. It might marginally make sense to open a layout inside a floating window, but only if that layout is made up entirely of tabs within one window; however layouts can contain floating windows, so rather than confuse the issue, this command should probably be removed. It doesn't do anything currently.

A shortcut to another Windows application (which you can drag to the shortcut bar from Windows explorer). You cannot open these within a tab or floating window in Logos, and those commands on the menu do nothing, so they should be removed.

There might be others. These are just the only ones I happen to have on my shortcut bar that have weirdnesses.

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Melissa Snyder

I'll submit your suggestion. At the least, the FSD 'Open in a floating window' command opening the resource in a new tab instead is a bug.

Jim R. Keener

Hi Rosie,

Could you tell me where you got the image icons? I need to add some images that I can use to mark the text. I don't know where to get them or how to add them.

Thanks,

Jim

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167563#Comment_167563

John the images are part of the Beta for 4.1. Rosie is testing the beta.

Jim R. Keener

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167565#Comment_167565

Thank you Thomas. I had not seen that yet. Going there now.

Jim

Steve Caswell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167581#Comment_167581

Hi Rosie,

I have the 4.1 Beta 11 downloaded on my computer. I was wondering where I can access the short cut icons that you showed on your report. I think I stumbled across them once by accident but have been unable to find them since. Also does anyone know what all of the different symbols and numbers stand for or what commands that they can be assigned to. Thank you for your assistance. I find the forums a great way to learn new things and short cuts. I am really impressed with the potential for the export and print features that have come out. It works great on marked up bibles and interlinears. It doesn't seem to work on all books at this stage like info graphics. Thanks again for your adivce

Stephen Caswell

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167597#Comment_167597

I'm not Rosie but I think she'd say "right click on the shortcut".

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167597#Comment_167597

Hi Rosie,

I have the 4.1 Beta 11 downloaded on my computer. I was wondering where I can access the short cut icons that you showed on your report. I think I stumbled across them once by accident but have been unable to find them since. Also does anyone know what all of the different symbols and numbers stand for or what commands that they can be assigned to. Thank you for your assistance. I find the forums a great way to learn new things and short cuts. I am really impressed with the potential for the export and print features that have come out. It works great on marked up bibles and interlinears. It doesn't seem to work on all books at this stage like info graphics. Thanks again for your adivce

Stephen Caswell

Hi Stephen, Martha is right. I right-clicked on one of my Shortcut icons and then took a screenshot. The icons can be assigned to any command you have on your shortcut bar. They are just generic icons, meant to offer you some options for mnemonic value. I suppose the numbers might be useful if set up shortcut buttons for all your bookmarks, and then you could access them with a click from the shortcut bar instead of having to have Favorites open all the time. As for all the others, you'd have to make some mental association between the colored icon and the resource or command on your shortcut bar that you'd associated it with. Personally I would never use them since those associations would be random and it would be hopeless to try to keep them in my middle-aged memory. I'm hoping they'll let us make custom icons someday. Actually, I'm taking advantage of the textual labels and that seems to be working for me.

Steve Caswell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167616#Comment_167616

Hi Rosie,

Thanks for your reply about the icons. Is there a place where you can specific commands like you could in Libronix? Where did you get the close all command function from? I know that you can do it with keyboard commands. But where did you get the shortcut command from? Thanks for your quick reply.

God Bless

Stephen Caswell

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167619#Comment_167619

I'm still not Rosie but http://wiki.logos.com/Shortcuts_bar

Steve Caswell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/167621#Comment_167621

Hi Martha,

Thanks for your help. I went to the web page and found the details that I needed. Thanks again and God Bless.

Stephen Caswell