BUG Of the Day (BOTD)

Appreciate both checks.  The issue is in the TC code ... I'm guessing all the way back to the L4 Windows > Mac. Alternatively, a Mac desktop complication.

I'm not sure bugs are even staffed anymore. We'll see what today's bug will be!  Excitement is in the air (along with springtine winds).

Well, it's day 2 of the BOTD series.  I wasn't sure a bug would appear.  But I wasn't disappointed!

Today's bug is unusual ... I suspect a recent update.  I was going to check Christian's 'reckoning' to work backwards into the aramaic. So, I went to the Leiden Peshitta, right-clicked the syriac word, and the right-click menu didn't know anything about it (empty right-side).  That was strange .. there's an analytical lexicon for the NT/Syriac.

So I switched over to another NT syriac that even has an interlinear, and did a right-click ... and whoosh ... Verbum was gone.

I don't even want to try to figure out what the issue is there ... I do have the analytical linked to the syriac group ... maybe it was just too much for him.  Or maybe they're working on OL fonts and forgot syriac.

Anyway, didn't take long for today's BOTD.  We'll watch for tomorrow!!

Well, I thought of that. But I didn't want to kludge up the forum with bugs that'll never get fixed. I'm content to just observe the statistical likelihood of hitting a bug per day. I have maybe 50 frequent-use and sophisticated apps. One has a bug and I don't think it's the app's fault. Logos seems the bug-capital on my devices.

Regarding today's crash, I'm thinking the right-click menu feed is slower and slower (ergo a blank panel). So, if you don't wait a while, and then try another resource right-click, it crashes. The queries>threads aren't independent (no error catch).

Anyway, we'll see tomorrow ... maybe the statistics will fail!

Well, it's Day 3 of BOTD. I really thought we'd go a day at least, and this would be a silly excercize. But not, sigh.

Today's bug I already knew about; but having updated to 31.3.32, he seems to be getting meaner.

The earlier bug (I'm sure Mac only), mistates your library size, simply by how you set you web access (on/off). 'On'delivers a nice large library ... over 6,000 great volumes. Turning web off, reduces the size to 1600. The difference is downloaded and whether the setting is on or off. Or put another way, you have to be online to see your library. 

Now, today's wrinkle, is changing the web on/off switch delivers a notification to restart the app. It's possible (?) they finally recognized on the Mac, web access can only occur with a restart. In my case, the Mac stays offline and Verbum apparently can't tell. So, a restart will be required.

So, we add this bug-expansion to our work-arounds.  I wouldn't doubt it's their design ... 

And Mike, I do have bug reports with zero response from FL. In fact, I haven't seen the bug-lady for quite some time?

Day 4 of BOTD.

This bug occurred this morning.  But I've seen it before randomly; just got used to it. But hit it today. I was in my NRSV, and wanted a quick look at Gen 3:13 'serpent'.  What was the hebrew base usage?  So, I right-clicked the NRSV english, scanned my lexicons at the bottom of the right-side of the menu.  And selected the DCH entry for more review.  The result is below.  No serpent.  The DCH is in my layout, so the process would be to switch windows, focus on the DCH tab, and then go to the serpent entry.  It gets to the DCH tab and gives up.

Now, if I do it again (click on the DCH on the right-click menu), it'll work.  In the example below, the hebrew for 'heart' was a previous query.  One option I haven't tried, is whether the tab being 'in view' creates success, and the tab out of view, failure (bug is after bringing tab into view?).

And Xnman, I hope we're not accidentally targeting our good folks down in Phoenix ... my impression is they have to try to copy the Windows designs, and be quick about it.

Day 5 of BOTD

Thank, you, Savanna. Though my intent is primarily to see to what degree bug-dodging interrupts Bible study ... now and then, or more often. So, my bugs may be random, or not worth worrying about.

OK! Today's bug is another known 'do not do that!' and my finger hovered over the Enter key, before I remembered. Whew.

A nice feature in Logos, is, if you're in a referencial text box, typing a numeral suggests you wish to change verses. Two numerals, chapter and verse. And at least on the Mac, hitting the tab highlights the full reference. So, quick key-work allows quick reference changing. 

Except on Text Comparison. A numeral with an Enter, completely changes the resource group, to the first in a list of non-Bible indices. No Bible choice, even though you're in a Bible, and your resource group is ... Bibles.

Thru the years, I thought that might be a feature ... granted poorly designed. For a long time, TC had another bug, if verse changes were not distant ... no change. They fixed that. But the odd non-standard reference handler remains.

And what happens, if my itchy Enter-finger worked this AM? I have 4 TC's linked (by language group). It'd have ruined all 4 (another bug, linking TCs). And I'd have to re-load the layout, losing my study-place.  Logos doesn't have a go-back.

Whew!

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But there's more! 

I've had a recent interest in the latin Bible. As both greek, and english developed, what about latin? Logos is pretty sparse ... no Italia/Old-Latin, And no Jerome.  But beggars can't be choosers, so I added a 5th TC for latin (Clementine and Stuttgard Vulgate). Then, I turned on show-diffs and base-text. Mistake.

The tool doesn't separate the base from the actual ... just one long word, differing colors. That's ok it you know your latin ... I don't. So a right-click search tries to find the not-a-word ... with expectedly no success. Have to hand-type, hand-type, hand-type.

Day, a week later

Well, with all the excitement over everyone (ok, a few curmudgeons) just loving subscriptions, I completely forgot to use Logos!  I mean, it's not a subscription ... what's the point?

OK, but I WAS checking out the ins/outs of the future of Logos (since I won't subscribe).  Lots of promises, if you noticed. Below is an interesting example.  I'm confident, this example would be a level-4 subscription ... the accent tagging.  Notice, you can't read it on the left.  You used to be able to click on the top-right for an expansion (a few months back maybe).  Not any more.  

So.  I assume I'll be using Name:Oxytone, Position:Ultima, Typ.  And that's ok.  Do they really think, if they can't do bugs now,  that they'll do bugs later?  I sound negative, but there's a reality to staff/time/results. If subscriptions, they're going to need to deliver .... subscriptions.

I agree, I should. But it doesn't. The former report (months ago) did note it responded to clicking the top-right, but apparently that's been removed.

But thank you ...

Mac. But this is one of several truncateds, in system panels that don't hover ... and earlier reported.

I'm good.