Problem with Drag and Drop

Hi Mike

Hi Dale 

A little more technical detail might help. Please tell us about your operating system. A screen shot of your layout might also help (use the paperclip or the orange thing beside it to attach to a post in this thread.

I am using MacOS and I don't think I have ever seen a 'circle with a bar through' it.

Of course having read your post I have to ask if you are doing manually what the Passage Guide is meant to do automatically?

The OS is Windows 10. The circle with the bar through it is sometimes called the "NO sign" or the "prohibition sign" I found out. It is the circle with the bar through it. Placed over a P it becomes a No Parking sign. Placed over a picture of a Durian in Cambodia it becomes "Don't ever under any circumstances bring a durian into this hotel" sign. Very versatile.

As to what I'm trying to do, I hope the attached screenshot will help. When I study a book, I like to set up 2 or 3 windows each with tabs for commentaries, say. One window might contain commentaries I am more likely to consult, another might contain commentaries that I'll mainly consult say for grammar questions. Here's the process I got through.

1. I open Library in a window.
2. I filter for, say, commentaries on Hebrews.
3. I right click and say to open the first one in a floating window.
4. I right click and say to open the next one in a floating window.
5. I then drag the tab from one window to drop in the other, and voila, I have both tabs in one window. When I first drag the tab from Window 1 over the tab bar in Window 2 the cursor becomes a NO sign. But, when it is placed quite right it the cursor is no longer a NO sign and a black vertical bar appears between to tabs. If I release it at that point, then the tab moves to Window 2.
6. I repeat the process until I've got the ones I want in the windows I want.

The benefits are (1) each is a window that I can make full screen when I'm using it, (2) Each is organized usefully with resources I'll use in like ways contained in the same window, I save the layout, and every time I go back to study Hebrews it is organized in the same way and comes up like that immediately. I don't just limit this commentaries but did so for this illustration. The organization and the ability to load one Layout and have everything immediately back and ready to use are what makes this useful for me.

The problem is that I've never had any issues getting the drag and drop to work until recently. Now when I move the cursor to drag a tab, the cursor almost always remains a NO sign and only rarely for a brief second will the cursor change back and the black vertical bar show up allowing me to drop it. Until recently it worked fine. Now the cursor change and black bar happen for only a small fraction of a second when I drag. It will do that periodically, but seldom long enough for me to actually drop the tab into window 2.

I can get the passage guide to list, say, all my commentaries on Hebrews. I don't know how to get the usefulness of the organization into groups from that, if it can do it.

Dale