Mac. Tab no longer allows you to enter words into Reference box?

Jonathan Yap
Jonathan Yap Member Posts: 77 ✭✭
edited 10:47AM in English Forum

Used to be click on the Bible text of any bible. Tab. Type John 3. Voila.

Now: Tab does highlight the Bible reference. But typing does nothing. I also noticed a weird blue box appearing nowadays.

However, Command+G now can function as the Tab to allow me to then enter reference.

TLDR: Tab no longer works as usual. Command G is more tedious. Fix?

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,096 ✭✭✭✭
    edited 12:51AM

    I remember a thread not long ago discussing this; staff said the key-function (tab > text-ref box) had not been a supported function.

    That said, I just tried it; works like it always did (tab and start typing). So, I'm not sure … I'm on 36.1 (older version).

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,365
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/246960/mac-tab-no-longer-allows-you-to-enter-words-into-reference-box

    I was about to give you a thorough explanation about why this doesn't work, and then I tried it. Works like a charm! I'm amazed. Perhaps this functionality was not restored on the Mac as it was (apparently) on windows?

    Ok, let me back up: After the Dynamic toolbar was released, it was said that Tab was never intended to select the reference box. It merely happened that way by accident (it scrolls through the menu items, and the reference box just happened to come first). Ctrl+G was the appropriate hotkey to use. Bummed? Sorry, but it's time to move on.

    Apparently, the right person caught wind of the disappointment and fixed this (at least on Windows). The reference box now comes first and only afterward does it move to the left to select the other 2 menu items (before skipping over the reference box to move to the right).

    Could you verify that this indeed is not working in v40 on Mac?

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,048

    Could you verify that this indeed is not working in v40 on Mac?

    It is not working in v40 on Mac

  • Jonathan Yap
    Jonathan Yap Member Posts: 77 ✭✭

    Yep. v.40 mac.

    ok. I get the change in dynamic toolbar. But command + G is very un intuitive. I am writing a doc in word. I command Tab to logos. I then let go of my mouse to type Command+G in order to type in the Search box?? Come on Logos…

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member, MVP Posts: 1,365
    edited 10:54AM

    Due to the discrepancy between Mac and Windows, I have added the Bug tag to this post. I am very pleased with the restored functionality in Windows and would hope that Mac users will also be able to benefit from this great adjustment to the tab key.

  • Jonathan Yap
    Jonathan Yap Member Posts: 77 ✭✭

    glad to see it’s an actual bug! And not some random hardware bug just for me that I probably can’t solve

  • NetworkGeek
    NetworkGeek Member Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭

    Just to support, I can chime in with @Jonathan Yap that tab does not work on Mac. I am on v. 40, Verbum/Mac.

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