Will Layouts Save VF Settings?

I'm curious...if I open my preferred Bible with (say) seven visual filters (primarily note indicators) turned on and save it as a layout, then turn off all the VFs (without saving the active layout),

(a) when I come back tomorrow and re-open the first saved layout, will the seven VFs be back on?

(b) i.e., can this be used as a strategy for resetting the pref Bible for use in specific tasks?

Yes, I can try this myself, but I'd like to know the 'rules' as I can probably find a way to make the test work wrong.

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DMB

Well, like you, experience, not 'the rules'. But comments:

- 'So far', the layout remembers VF settings exactly. Over 13-14 years. Quite stable.

- You mention a preferred Bible, which wouldn't be part of VF. I think it's 'global' to the app (library preferences).

- It also remembers settings beyond VF, as in Text Comparison (allowing multiple different ones in a layout). Ditto for CitedBy's, search panels, and so forth. I have multiple of each, always remembered by the layout-save.

The layout-saves are so reliable, they can overcome bugs in the software (meaning if a tool setting gets overwritten by a bug, the saved layout can come to the rescue ... I have that issue currently).

Doc B

a preferred Bible, which wouldn't be part of VF. I think it's 'global' to the app

That's new for me...didn't know that.

I did try opening my PB, saving it as a layout, then closing it. I then opened the PB again (with the Bible icon, not the saved layout), and changed a visual filter. Next, I closed the program. I reopened it and loaded the saved layout...the VF I had changed was present in the layout, which I hadn't saved as part of the layout. Bummer.

So given the limitations of my test, it didn't work (i.e., the VF settings for my preferred Bible were not saved in the layout).

That's too bad...I'd like to more quickly get back to the VF settings for a particular task rather than go through and manually check all the boxes.

DMB

Bummer, definitely. I'd never experienced that combination, I guess. All my regular Bibles (including my top one or PB) keep their VFs from their layout. In fact, there's such a 'lock', that if I open a PB after a layout load, the newly opened Bible uses the layout VF setting (which is maddening).

Well, I guess, wait for some expertise.

Dave Hooton

Bummer, definitely. I'd never experienced that combination, I guess. All my regular Bibles (including my top one or PB) keep their VFs from their layout. In fact, there's such a 'lock', that if I open a PB after a layout load, the newly opened Bible uses the layout VF setting (which is maddening).

This is all "known" from ancient times (and includes opening a "Duplicate"). FL have resisted creating Project layouts which retain ALL settings as private to the project.