Highlighting bug on Windows 7 x64

Don Awalt · August 2013

If I am reading a resource as part of a Reading plan, highlighting does not work if you want to highlight a section that goes across a start or finish Reading bar - for example, the "Start Reading" bar that you see in the resource.

Try creating a section to highlight that starts before a Start/Finish bar, and ends after it. Then select to highlight it. What I see is that only the text selected that is before the bar is highlighted, the part after is not - you have to then go and highlight the part after the bar in a second attempt.

The bug actually goes further - if you have highlighted a section before/after Start/Reading, and attempted to highlight it - only the first section (before the bar) is highlighted. Now highlight JUST THE PART that now shows highlighted, i.e. before the Reading bar - and use the Highlighting pane to "Erase" the highlighting. The highlighting AFTER the bar will suddenly appear as the highlighting before the reading bar is erased! That part has to be erased in a separate action.

Fred Chapman · August 2013

Don Awalt said:

Try creating a section to highlight that starts before a Start/Finish bar, and ends after it. Then select to highlight it. What I see is that only the text selected that is before the bar is highlighted, the part after is not - you have to then go and highlight the part after the bar in a second attempt.

The bug actually goes further - if you have highlighted a section before/after Start/Reading, and attempted to highlight it - only the first section (before the bar) is highlighted. Now highlight JUST THE PART that now shows highlighted, i.e. before the Reading bar - and use the Highlighting pane to "Erase" the highlighting. The highlighting AFTER the bar will suddenly appear as the highlighting before the reading bar is erased! That part has to be erased in a separate action.

I cannot reproduce this bug. I too am running Win7

Don Awalt · August 2013

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512791#Comment_512791

Fredc said:
I cannot reproduce this bug. I too am running Win7

Play around with it, I have found it does not always happen. For example, today I have two different reading plans, one is for Today and one is Tomorrow. On a restart, I brought both up - highlighted around the STOP bar of the today reading - didn't happen. I went to STOP/Tomorrow reading - it did - Went to START bar/Tomorrow - it did - went to START bar/Today - it did. Tried STOP/Today again, it still did not happen (meaning worked correctly).

Mike · August 2013

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/512800#Comment_512800

Hi Don,

Thanks for reporting this. I apologize for the inconvenience it's causing.

Given the inconsistency, it would be best if you can get us a screen-cast or capture of the problem with the Bible you're using and the location it occurred. That will help us reproduce the problem and hopefully repair it.

Don Awalt · August 2013

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/513084#Comment_513084

Hi Mike, here you go! Hopefully you can use this format, if not let me know, I can try to convert it. This is a link to my DropBox, I couldn't get it to upload as is or as a zip:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56053396/Highlight_bug.swf

You will see two examples. First in Apostolic Fathers in English you see me highlight before and after a Stop bar, it only highlights the first part. Erase that part, the second half appears. That seems to happen all the time.

Then I do a second example on AF - highlight across multiple bars, as sometimes appear in reading plans; you see it highlights the beginning and end, but skips the middle.

The second example show the highlighting before the bar but not after again, but erase of the part highlighted does not make new highlighted area appear. This happens a lot, the "appearing highlight" does not appear all the time.

Let me know if this gives you what you need!