Multiple resizable windows
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.
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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....
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A very helpful reply. I do not find the management of windows very intuitive, since it does not follow standard Windows protocals.
Is there any way to fix the size of a window, so it does not change if I resize an adjoining window?
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A very helpful reply. I do not find the management of windows very intuitive, since it does not follow standard Windows protocals.
Is there any way to fix the size of a window, so it does not change if I resize an adjoining window?
Nope. If you want to keep one pane the same size while increasing an adjoining pane your best option is to turn the pane you want to increase into a floating window.
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I appreciate that you can open a window that has a life of its own. But I would also like to have a floating window that is still connected to the main program window, as in version 3. So I can have a window partially overlapping other windows or resize the window without affecting other windows. I don't like that when I open a new window, other windows resize themselves. I suspect they did this because in version 3 it was possible to not know that you had a window open, because it was hidden by other windows. But that is true in any Windows program.
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I appreciate that you can open a window that has a life of its own. But I would also like to have a floating window that is still connected to the main program window, as in version 3. So I can have a window partially overlapping other windows or resize the window without affecting other windows. I don't like that when I open a new window, other windows resize themselves. I suspect they did this because in version 3 it was possible to not know that you had a window open, because it was hidden by other windows. But that is true in any Windows program.
It sounds like you might be confusing windows in panes. L4 Panes are the equivelant of L3 windows. an L4 Window is the equivalent of an L3 Desktop. In L4, you can have multiple, connected L4 windows. I may be mis-understanding what your saying here, though. See the screenshot below for what is possible. These two windows interact for the most part (there are a couple of limitations like with highlighting). If a link a tab in Pane 1, window 1 with a tab in pane 1, window 2 they will follow each other.
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