Can someone tell me what all these gray bars are? Are they some sort of history of where I've been?
I know that search results produce orange bars, but what are these?
Hi Mark,Logos is calling this "read wear." History, Favorites, and Search Results will show in different colors.Morris
Morris,
Ahh...so you finally surface...and with an answer in hand... [:O]
so does clearing history delete these? is there a way to turn them off?
Morris, I thought as much. Thank you.
I would like to know how to erase these and would like to be able to turn them off!
I like these bars. I really like the pink/red ones in a search. I talked about that in a different post, but I'll repeat it here, 4WIW. In a search you can preview the "hit" by hovering over the bar. You can also "jump" to the hits by clicking on the bar.
I was wondering what the other colors meant and now I know what the grey is: history.
I think this is a great navigational tool. Thanks.
Chris
I only worked out these were today; they really are very useful! Especially being able to mouseover and see where you've been...
What are the blue bars?
They represent positions in that book you've stored in "Favorites".
I agree they are great when you are searching and then can hover over each bar in the resource to get a preview. I'm not so hot on the grey ones though.
This might be true unless you get lots of hits. See the example below. Based on this search I get a pink scroll bar for a good part of the NT. Pretty useless. In addition you cannot click on or hover over a pink bar that lies under the scroll bar button, limiting the usefulness of this.
I've given "wear bars" some thought and I think it could be more useful with some options. To illustrate the need consider this:-
I had just loaded L4 and opened ESV to a clump of pink bars. So I began to click through the four Search tabs and found a Bible search with results in the NT (the range was All Passages). I think I ran it a few days ago. The scroll button presented an obstacle to results between Philem and Rev. If I clicked above the button would jump to that spot and present a similar obstacle. And I couldn't guarantee to scroll from one result to the next because of the density of the pink bars. Thinking the search range had an effect on the distribution, I changed the range to New Testament and re-ran the search. The pink bars briefly disappeared but re-appeared in the same place! As another set of results was laid on top it became impossible to select a specific result as a slight movement would skip 3-4 results. When I searched Genesis I got a clump of pink at the top of the scroll bar. I also noticed a flurry of Sync activity with every search.
