resizing highlighter/etc pane

I noticed that when I open the highlighter pane, it cannot be resized . . . initially. If I add it to another pane (like PG), together they can be resized. Then, if I locate "highlighter" in another area, by itself, it suddenly is able to be resized. I also then noticed similar behavior (for my UK friends: behaviour) with panes like "CBV" and such. All of those open on their own either on the left or right side of the L4 "window." I don't know if that is connected to the issue.

I initially was wanting the highlighter to be as narrow as possible so that it would not take up space, but always be open as I flipped back and forth changing the styles.

What causes this behavior? Are they "hard-docked" in some way initially? Is it a bug?

Suggestion: I know Mr. Bob Pritchett has proposed some ideas for highlighting, but I don't think they have said this scenario that I think would be helpful: IF we had a highlighter mode (*alarms and flashing lights going off in Bellingham*), it would be nice to right click and have the various other "pens" available to you. Say you are doing Precept marking: your pen is "on" as you select and auto-highlight, but as you need to change the highlight symbol/color, just right click and have your alternate choice right there. Instead of traveling over the to the side, or taking up valuable screen space with hightlight pane NEEDING to be visible. I think Bob has suggested a kind of "hotkey" for different colors. Maybe that would work, but for things like precepts, that would be a ton of keys . . .

I do like the MS Word hovering menu you get when you select words . . . that is pretty convenient and cool and efficient.

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Morris Proctor

Hey Dan,

Yes, Logos designed them to be like a third on either the
left or right hand side. You can avoid this if you drag and drop Highlighting,
Favorites, Cited By, etc from the menu rather than just clicking them.

Kevin Becker

Things like the help file and the highlighter files are automatically opened in non-resizable panes on the right side of the screen. The logic is that this guarantees their text doesn't get too squished or take up too much space.

I don't care for this feature. Usually I end up dragging stuff around until I've wrested control back and I can re-size to my heart's content.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/57638#Comment_57638

Things like the help file and the highlighter files are automatically opened in non-resizable panes on the right side of the screen. The logic is that this guarantees their text doesn't get too squished or take up too much space.

I don't care for this feature. Usually I end up dragging stuff around until I've wrested control back and I can re-size to my heart's content.

Ditto. I often like to keep Help open in a floating window and just Alt+Tab back and forth to it when I need to look something up. Then it isn't taking up screen real estate from the rest of my layout, but it's quickly accessible.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/57635#Comment_57635

Hey Dan,

Yes, Logos designed them to be like a third on either the
left or right hand side. You can avoid this if you drag and drop Highlighting,
Favorites, Cited By, etc from the menu rather than just clicking them.

lol, yup, that worked. thank you! it still seems odd that they would force the pane to "stay" that exact size (when you initially click to open it). The fact that it can be manipulated into resizing makes me ask the question: why not make resizing from the start? (even from a click and not a drag/drop). that said, appreciate the tip.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/57666#Comment_57666

Things like the help file and the highlighter files are automatically opened in non-resizable panes on the right side of the screen. The logic is that this guarantees their text doesn't get too squished or take up too much space.

I don't care for this feature. Usually I end up dragging stuff around until I've wrested control back and I can re-size to my heart's content.

Ditto. I often like to keep Help open in a floating window and just Alt+Tab back and forth to it when I need to look something up. Then it isn't taking up screen real estate from the rest of my layout, but it's quickly accessible.

never have done "alt tab." I should try this basic function!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/57734#Comment_57734

never have done "alt tab." I should try this basic function!

Oh, man! I couldn't live without Alt+Tab! I'm always running a zillion programs at once, and I'm a fast typist and use the keyboard for most things when I can (I'm having to get used to mouse-only ways of doing a lot of things in Logos, which is fine). So switching between programs is much faster for me with Alt+Tab than finding the icon for the program I want to go to among the dozen or so in my taskbar along the bottom of the screen and clicking on it. Often I'm just toggling back and forth between two apps, and Alt+Tab (releasing right away) will do that in a snap. But if I want to go looking through my other apps to switch to a different one, Alt+Tab and hold the Alt down and repeat Tab until you find the app you want. Or...in Vista: you can type Alt+Tab and keep the Alt key held down while you click on the icon of the app you want to go to. (Alt+Shift+Tab reverses the order of how you go through the apps; helpful if you hit Alt+Tab one too many times and just need to go back to the previous app.)