Multiple resizable windows

Harry Hahne

The most frustrating thing to me about Logos 4 is the lack of resizable windows and more than 3 or 4 windows. The tab feature is handy for some purposes. But I often want to have several passages open in the same Bible version at the same time. For example, I want to look at several Synoptic Gospel accounts of the same story. Frequently I want to have the Old Testament open in English in one window, with the Hebrew and sometimes Septuagint open in another window. These are linked as set A. Then I have the New Testament open in English and Greek linked as set B. This lets me compare the Old Testament citation in the New Testament. At the same time I have commentaries open and lexicons, all in separate windows.

Unless I am missing something very basic, I don't see any way to open more than 3 or 4 windows. I also don't see any way to open up more than one copy of a given Bible.

spitzerpl

Once you get used to how the windows work there's a good chance you'll like it. You can open more then four panes. First create four panes and have one pane with two tabs in it. Grab the second tab and start to move your cursor around the screen while holding the tab. You will begin to see a blue shading as you do so. The blue shading represents what the tab will look like if you drop it in that location. If you move it to the middle of a pane, it will highlight the whole pane blue and dropping it there will add a tab to that pane. If you move it to the right center of a pane half the pane will be shaded and half will not. Dropping it there will turn the pane into two panes, one containing the original pane's tabs and the other containing the tab you were dragging. Move it to the bottom or top of a pane will divide it horizontally. Moving to to the very bottom of the window will cause it to spread across the bottom of multiple panes.

So far we've only touched panes and tabs. Panes contain tabs, and windows contain panes. You can also create multiple windows which is a Hallalujah Chorus started for us with dual monitors! To see this in action right click on a tab and select "Open in floating window." The possibilities now become endless!

Regarding multiple bible versions right click on the a tab of the translation you want a new tab for and select "copy to a new tab." Or if you want a shortcut hold down the CTRL key while dragging a tab to where you want it. It will make a copy of that tab.

I hope this helped clear up somethings. If something is unclear or could be stated better let me know. I'm going to save this post so I can use it when 4.0 goes public and people have similar questions, which they will....