Bug: Layout not restored correctly

Dave Hooton

Part way through a session I became aware I didn't have an active layout, although the layout I had was the layout I expected. So I took the current snapshot, named it accordingly and clicked on Laptop 5.A on LHS. The layout I got was not the one I had just named.

3324.Layout.zip

Mike

This is happening because "Laptop 5.A" exists in two lists, Saved Layouts and the history. The history reflects two items with the same name, but the Saved Layouts list only allows for one item per name - replacing the old entry.

Because you recreated it with he same name, the more current copy wrote over the previous copy in the Saved Layouts list, which only supports 1 instance of a given layout title. However, your history remembers each layout by time stamps. It now has two instances of "Laptop 5.A" in different states.

I've recreated this here:

As you can see, I opened the ESV on the left side. Saved the layout as "ESV Test", then moved it and saved a new layout again as "ESV Test". This replaced my saved copy in the Saved list, but left the history item for the first copy.

If I make the ESV full-screen and use the "Update to current snapshot" option, the original layout will be updated, instead of replaced. That way there is no previous "copy" of the item in history:

Updating the layout to current snapshot also applies it as "Active".

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/469145#Comment_469145

Mike

That doesn't explain where the layout that became Active came from. The most recent was the snapshot I saved. How did the left pane "morph" into two columns? I also had an older laptop 5.A (not shown) and it does not resemble that layout.