Scroll while selecting

Cy Moehl

Dragging to select text stops at the edge of the screen, limiting the ability to select longer passages than what fit on the display. Please add an auto-scroll feature while selection mode is active. A more manual alternative would be to not immediately clear the selection on the next touch, allowing the user to scroll and grab the selection handles to expand the region.

Michael S. Buckley

I saw another post mentioning a similar issue with selecting for highlighting. Perhaps someone in Logos support could merge these similar posts, as essentially it would be the same underlying software to make both selection or highlighting continuation past the current viewable screen possible. The two common solutions to this in other apps (which I would believe would work here) is to either recognize when a dragging motion has been continued to the bottom of the screen and held, the screen is then advanced incrementally to allow for time for the end user to process what is on the screen and then advances further until the finger (or stylus depending on device/user preference) is lifted or to simulate a mouse scroll wheel effect and continue progression through the resource (there may be pros and cons to each approach; however I feel that the general community would appreciate either approach at this point).

The reason why, I believe, this should be considered a priority improvement is that aside from personal/academic/pastoral study, the next most important ability for a believer to use this software is at church, and where individuals, such as myself, may like to use our default notetaking apps (e.g. samsung notes, apple notes, etc.) the ability to be able to take the whole block of text being read and import it into our notes is a major use-case application. My current solution is to scroll select to the end of where I can currently see, copy/paste to notes and then return and capture the next portion (however this takes more time and detracts from the ability to listen to the sermon as effectively as could otherwise be possible).

Thanks to the original poster for their post on this feedback.