Highlighting in a Floating Window (Mac)

Brian D Johnson
Brian D Johnson Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I often like to read books in my laptop in a floating window, but as far as I can tell there is no way to highlight while a book is in a floating window. Is this true, or am I missing some trick? If this can't be done, I'd like to suggest that it be an added feature for future updates!

Thanks!

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,189

    Hi Brian - and welcome to the forums

    Brian D Johnson said:

    I often like to read books in my laptop in a floating window, but as far as I can tell there is no way to highlight while a book is in a floating window. Is this true, or am I missing some trick

    Running on Windows it seems to work ok.

    1. If I have the Highlighting panel open in my main window, I can select a portion of text in a resource in the floating window, go to the main panel and click the required highlighting and it appears
    2. I can do the same if I move the highlighting panel to the floating window
    3. I can also use highlight shortcuts to highlight in a floating window (http://wiki.logos.com/Highlighting#Shortcut_keys)

    What do you get when you try any of these?

    Graham 

  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,523

    Brian D Johnson said:

    I often like to read books in my laptop in a floating window, but as far as I can tell there is no way to highlight while a book is in a floating window. Is this true, or am I missing some trick? If this can't be done, I'd like to suggest that it be an added feature for future updates!

    Thanks!

    I'm not on my Mac right now, but it has always worked for me in the past. Check out Graham's link to the wiki for keyboard shortcuts. 

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  • Brian D Johnson
    Brian D Johnson Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/549978#Comment_549978

    Excellent, Graham! All three of those solutions work! Thanks for your help. Had no idea about the shortcut feature! That's better than bringing up the panel for me even when I'm not using the floating panel! Thanks so much for your help.

    Brian

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,189
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/550039#Comment_550039

    Brian D Johnson said:

    Excellent, Graham! All three of those solutions work! Thanks for your help. Had no idea about the shortcut feature! That's better than bringing up the panel for me even when I'm not using the floating panel! Thanks so much for your help.

    Brian

    Glad it was useful, pleased to help

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