It's a New Record!

I know, I know ... I'm the only one frustrated because the linked windows often don't line up, when you have 4 or more in your layout. I also use L3 and notice it's often got the same behavior, so apparently this is a long Logos tradition that had to have be re-coded into L4. And so, I smile, truly appreciating just how far off the verse-difference can be.

Below is my absolutely NEW record ... 5 verses minimum (though 6 if you count from the top). The PC is at rest; CPUs at near-zero. In the screen shot below, the 3 verse-based windows all match up. The only issue is the UBS4 who is actually 6 verses back in the actual text. I sure hope George doesn't see all these interlinears lined up (groan)

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George Somsel

I know, I know ... I'm the only one frustrated because the linked windows often don't line up, when you have 4 or more in your layout. I also use L3 and notice it's often got the same behavior, so apparently this is a long Logos tradition that had to have be re-coded into L4. And so, I smile, truly appreciating just how far off the verse-difference can be.

Below is my absolutely NEW record ... 5 verses minimum (though 6 if you count from the top). The PC is at rest; CPUs at near-zero. In the screen shot below, the 3 verse-based windows all match up. The only issue is the UBS4 who is actually 6 verses back in the actual text. I sure hope George doesn't see all these interlinears lined up (groan)

What do you expect? You're using a brain-dead interlinear. As the scripture says, "Can anything good come out of interlinears?" [;)]

David Ames

When one has several Bibles open and linked I have found that the one that I use to select the text [when going from verse to next verse to next verse] does not always move [text was on screen as in this study I am only stepping to the next verse]. Then when I select one of the other open Bibles I find that their display is on target. [had seven open – opened a eighth to use as the ‘go to next verse’ one so that the ones I wanted would stay in sync – have each Bible in a tab with only one visible at a time]

[Question: Denise do you always change verses using the same version [same window]? - the more information we can give them the more likely they can find the problem]

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/227833#Comment_227833

I've watched it for a while now, with my observations:

- The viewable verse reference (VR) is independent of the text-display (TD) routine. The VR presumes the TD is where it 'left it'; there's no report-back routine). I've had cases where the VR thinks it's on verse one of a given chapter even though the TD is in the middle of the chapter.

- Periodically the VR goes blank. Generally paging up/down you can get it back on track. In a screen-shot to a thread a few days back, one of the windows had a blank VR.

- Yesterday's new record was achieved when I had to reduce the font size. On the re-draw, the TD dislocated from the VR (thus the image). But it does demonstrate the VR doesn't logically know where the TD is. When I re-typed in the verse ref to get it to move correctly, it simply ignored it (presumably no update without a change in the VR). I wasn't about to move the other two off-target.

- Most of my headaches occur because probably years ago, the policy was to calculate backward from the desired verse-ref and display some miscellaneous text occurring before the desired verse. However with the interlinears (especially the hebrew one), the vertical distance isn't calculated correctly and so after moving, it reports back the wrong verse postioning (and so the other windows typically move backward instead of forward).

- This probably sounds confused, mainly because the behavior doesn't appear to be linked to good programming (the TD should report back it's location after a re-draw to insure the two match). Plus I'd bet there's something in the hebrew interlinear on it's draw-positioning.

- While on the general subject, if you right-click over a verse one (typically a chapter number), the routine to pick up the positioning doesn't update the right-click menu verse reference (instead picking a previous one, often from another window). This took me a while to figure out, though it's pretty obvious.

- Early on, the frequency of the problem was such, I couldn't believe Logos folks used their own product. But now I'm thinking it has to do with the interlinears in small windows, combined with the pre-verse text calculation. And since I love my interlinears (sorry George!), I see this problem constantly.