New Bug in Text Selection on 6.0b 6.0.2.0042?

I'm having a consistent intermittent bug in selecting text with either mouse or touchpad, but only in Logos & only since installing Logos 6.0b 6.0.2.0042.

There are several scenarios, as I try to read & highlight:

After highlighting text formatted normally (most repeatable scenario):

While text is still selected AFTER highlighting it, press shift key down to extend the text selection.
Left click further on in the resource. Quite often, instead of extending the text, it uses what SHOULD be the end as the start of a new text selection, which ends off the screen (and page), much further in the resource than should be possible to select.

Before highlighting text (intermittently repeatable--depending on resource?):

Left click (& hold) to select text to highlight.
Start moving cursor toward end of text. In some places (most often where selection crosses a hot-linked footnote, but sometimes with no footnote or other hotlink involved), instead of desired text being selected, behavior is similar to above: actual text selected begins near where it should end & continues to someplace off screen.

I've been working in NICOT's Ezekiel 1-24.

I've waited a day to report, hoping it'd go away or that I'd see it reported elsewhere in the forum. Not so (on a casual search for "bug text selection"). Is anyone else having text selection problems?

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Dave Hooton

I can't reproduce and I don't have that book. Is Smart Text Selection ON or OFF?

Alan Palmer (Logos)

After highlighting text formatted normally (most repeatable scenario):

While text is still selected AFTER highlighting it, press shift key down to extend the text selection.

Left click further on in the resource. Quite often, instead of extending the text, it uses what SHOULD be the end as the start of a new text selection, which ends off the screen (and page), much further in the resource than should be possible to select.

Two things to consider that might explain what you are seeing: selections have start and end and shift-click moves the end.

What this means in practice...

If you were to place your mouse after "might" in the following sentence and drag the mouse to the start of "example" your selection would be:

"Here is an [end]example text that might[start] appear in your resource."

Then shift-clicking after "resource" would change your selection's end to be:

"Here is an example text that might[start] appear in your resource[end]."

In other words, it is important the direction that the selection is made as to what would be the expected result of a shift-click operation.

Bohuslav Wojnar

I can't reproduce and I don't have that book. Is Smart Text Selection ON or OFF?

I have the same problem (I think it started with the latest release - I am on the Beta channel). Smart Text Selection in OFF in my case.

EDIT: It does the same in any resource - not resource specific bug.

BillS

I can't reproduce and I don't have that book. Is Smart Text Selection ON or OFF?

off

BillS

Two things to consider that might explain what you are seeing: selections have start and end and shift-click moves the end.

What this means in practice...

If you were to place your mouse after "might" in the following sentence and drag the mouse to the start of "example" your selection would be:

"Here is an [end]example text that might[start] appear in your resource."

Then shift-clicking after "resource" would change your selection's end to be:

"Here is an example text that might[start] appear in your resource[end]."

In other words, it is important the direction that the selection is made as to what would be the expected result of a shift-click operation.

Thanks, but I'm always selecting left to right, top to down. The results are not expected. And unexpected selection results are so far limited either to the Logos app or to this resource within the Logos app. (I'm on study leave & am attempting a book study of Ezekiel within Logos. Working 12-14hr/day & have limited time to test, but it seemed important to see if there was a quick fix.)

Based on Bohuslav's input in this thread, I no longer believe I'm the only one.

Rosie Perera

consistent intermittent bug

That seems like an oxymoron. :-)

Bohuslav Wojnar

consistent intermittent bug

That seems like an oxymoron. :-)

No, it is not. [:)] It is consistent in repeating itself again and again but intermittent because it is not always the case. It is possible sometimes to select text properly.

BillS

It is consistent in repeating itself again and again but intermittent because it is not always the case. It is possible sometimes to select text properly.

LOL, Rosie. But Bohuslav is correct in why I used those words.

Alan Palmer (Logos)

If I can find a repro case, I'm sure I can supply a fix in an upcoming beta but so far I've been unsuccessful. Could one of you who are experiencing this post a screencast to visually demonstrate what you are doing/seeing? That might provide me the piece of information that I'm missing. Thanks.

Doc B

I'm having a consistent intermittent bug in selecting text with either mouse or touchpad, but only in Logos & only since installing Logos 6.0b 6.0.2.0042.

I noticed the same thing last night while working on a custom reading plan. I was using Both Grudem's Systematic Theology and Henry's God, Revelation, and Authority.

As you experiences, it was intermittent, but repeatable.

I was excited to try it out because it was in response to an early bug report I made that they fixed the highlight jumping up a line or so. That part seems (mostly) fixed, but this new behavior was weird.

Rosie Perera

It is consistent in repeating itself again and again but intermittent because it is not always the case. It is possible sometimes to select text properly.

LOL, Rosie. But Bohuslav is correct in why I used those words.

Thanks. I don't know why that text of mine posted in such a huge font. I certainly didn't mean to come across like I was shouting. [:)] I posted it from my phone and had to do some manual manipulation to quote only a portion of your message and not the whole thing (due to a bug in the mobile browser or in the forum software when rendered on a mobile browser).

Rosie Perera

After highlighting text formatted normally (most repeatable scenario):

While text is still selected AFTER highlighting it, press shift key down to extend the text selection.

Left click further on in the resource. Quite often, instead of extending the text, it uses what SHOULD be the end as the start of a new text selection, which ends off the screen (and page), much further in the resource than should be possible to select.

Two things to consider that might explain what you are seeing: selections have start and end and shift-click moves the end.

What this means in practice...

If you were to place your mouse after "might" in the following sentence and drag the mouse to the start of "example" your selection would be:

"Here is an [end]example text that might[start] appear in your resource."

Then shift-clicking after "resource" would change your selection's end to be:

"Here is an example text that might[start] appear in your resource[end]."

In other words, it is important the direction that the selection is made as to what would be the expected result of a shift-click operation.

BTW, this brings back memories of trying to track down a bug in the selection highlighting code in Word where you'd click and drag the mouse all over the place, back and forth around the [start] anchor, and the [start] anchor would jump around to a new place. Yeah, I worked on that code, so I have empathy for whoever will need to fix this bug once a reproducible case of it can be tracked down. I have not been able to reproduce it in just a minute or so of playing around but will keep an eye open for it.

Dale Garman

I'm having same problem and it is driving me nuts as it essentially makes it impossible to control what is being copied as it takes in many verses and even whole paragraphs. I had this problem when 6 came out, but it seemed that if I pressed alt key at same time, the highlighting was controlled. Now nothing controls it. This is obviously a very significant bug since most of us use the product to prepare lessons and sermons and if you can't copy correctly then you are in a world of hurt.

It doesn't take any controlled test to find, just try to highlight any verse or section in the middle of a paragraph and you will get it.

Rosie Perera

I'm having same problem and it is driving me nuts as it essentially makes it impossible to control what is being copied as it takes in many verses and even whole paragraphs. I had this problem when 6 came out, but it seemed that if I pressed alt key at same time, the highlighting was controlled. Now nothing controls it. This is obviously a very significant bug since most of us use the product to prepare lessons and sermons and if you can't copy correctly then you are in a world of hurt.

It doesn't take any controlled test to find, just try to highlight any verse or section in the middle of a paragraph and you will get it.

Dale this isn't a bug, it's the new "Smart Selection" "feature" Logos 6 introduced. See my comments about it in my post above. You can and will want to turn off that "feature" since you don't like it. I don't blame you, I don't like it either. I have yet to meet anyone who does.

Graham Criddle

Based on Bohuslav's input in this thread, I no longer believe I'm the only one.

Me as well - I posted a separate thread at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/99428.aspx

I only see this behaviour with the CBV panel open. Does that affect things for you as well?

Chip Bell

I no longer believe I'm the only one.

Me as well. I only see this behaviour with the CBV panel open.

I'm having the same problems described above. Makes CBV unusable for me. For the record, I've turned off smart select. Still have the same problem. IF the CBV panel is closed, no problem. With it open, I get erratic results when trying to select text. It behaves AS IF smart select was still on.

Dale Garman

Dumb question, but what is the CBV panel?

BillS

Based on Bohuslav's input in this thread, I no longer believe I'm the only one.

Me as well - I posted a separate thread at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/99428.aspx

I only see this behaviour with the CBV panel open. Does that affect things for you as well?

On first blush, it does seem improved (i.e., it hasn't happened in the 1st few minutes since closing that panel in my layout). I'll leave the panel closed (unless I need it) & will keep testing it without CBV open.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Maxine Blackwell

Problem solved. Yaahoooo! Try update 6.0b SR3 from 2/10/2015. Thank you Logos. That was a frustrating problem.