More than 5 keylinks in Logos 4 pop-up menu

Harry Hahne

One thing I miss greatly from Logos 3 is the option to choose up to 8 resources for each data type that would appear on the pop-up menu. Logos 4 only allows 5. I have a lot more Greek lexicons and word study books and I often look up words in various ones, using the right click pop-up menu. The same issue applies to English words. I have a lot of Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias and English dictionaries to choose from.

It wastes a lot of time to have to do a search when I want to look up a resource that is not in my top 5. I would like to see Program Settings allow you to choose the number of resources that would appear in the pop-up menu. I realize Logos probably chose 5 for performance reasons, since they actually look in the resources to find ones that have an appropriate article. But if a person has a fast enough computer, it would be nice to allow a larger number of resources in this menu.

Rich DeRuiter

Harry Hahne said:

One thing I miss greatly from Logos 3 is the option to choose up to 8 resources for each data type that would appear on the pop-up menu. Logos 4 only allows 5. I have a lot more Greek lexicons and word study books and I often look up words in various ones, using the right click pop-up menu. The same issue applies to English words. I have a lot of Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias and English dictionaries to choose from.

It wastes a lot of time to have to do a search when I want to look up a resource that is not in my top 5. I would like to see Program Settings allow you to choose the number of resources that would appear in the pop-up menu. I realize Logos probably chose 5 for performance reasons, since they actually look in the resources to find ones that have an appropriate article. But if a person has a fast enough computer, it would be nice to allow a larger number of resources in this menu.

Harry, if you create a collection of the lexicons and word study books that you prefer, and tick the box beside "Show in parallel resources" (on the same line as the collection title), and then open one of the resources and tick the collection you just made, you can cycle through your favorite lexicons (etc.) with the right/left arrow keys (like in L3) - even easier than picking from the right click menu (IMHO). See the graphics below for what I'm talking about:

Collection Creation

Here's one I made for only Greek Lexicons. Make sure you start a
"New" collection, or else it will overwrite your currently selected one!
I started with everything in my library that has both Greek and Lexicon
in the title. Then I subtracted that old E4 lexicon I have (I should
probably just hide the thing). You could, obviously also add resources
to the "Plus these resources side" by opening your Library browser and
simply dragging them into that section. Finally tick the box next to
"Show in parallel resources:

 

Select the collection as a parallel resource collection:

To choose your collection left click the box next to the three-circle thing to open the parallel resource selection options, then find the as the one you want to use for parallel resources, tick that box (it will automatically un-tick any other ones you have).

As I look at this I see I may want to add "A Concise Greek-English Dictionary..." and maybe a few others to my Greek Lexicon collection. If I do, they'll show up in the "Greek Lexicons" collection as soon as I put them there.

The downside of this method is that you will only be able to arrow-key
through the books in the collection in alphabetical order, rather than
in order of preference. The upside is that these books will only be
those books you want to be there.

Now try it, and see if this doesn't do what you want.