BUG & Pet Peeve: Over-selection of text in Logos
Every now and then when I am selecting text in Logos, it will grab a huge amount of text instead of sentence or word/s that I wanted to select. Since I highlight a lot, I have to slow down to see what winds up being highlighted (after all the Logos tools run). However, I get ahead of myself and tend to use the letter key shortcut to fire my highlighter before Logos gets around to showing me what it highlighted.
Just now, I wanted to highlight a couple of words in Deut 24 and add a green underline. However, unbeknownst to me, the over-selection bug decided that I must have really wanted to select everything that I'd read in this session--all the way back to Deut 20--and so, when I hit my Green Underline hotkey, now it ruined chapters and chapters of highlighting that will take me an hour or more to fix--IF I don't get zapped by this bug again.
The bug has been around a long time, and I'm not quite sure how to replicate it--but I encounter it a lot.
AARRGGHH
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Ward Walker said:
Just now, I wanted to highlight a couple of words in Deut 24 and add a green underline. However, unbeknownst to me, the over-selection bug decided that I must have really wanted to select everything that I'd read in this session--all the way back to Deut 20--and so, when I hit my Green Underline hotkey, now it ruined chapters and chapters of highlighting that will take me an hour or more to fix--IF I don't get zapped by this bug again.
Did you try reversing the process by undoing it? I don't know whether this works with highlighting since I almost never highlight and when I do I remove it shortly thereafter (mark something to review when current operation is complete then go back, review that and remove highlighting).
george
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George Somsel said:
Did you try reversing the process by undoing it? I don't know whether this works with highlighting since I almost never highlight and when I do I remove it shortly thereafter (mark something to review when current operation is complete then go back, review that and remove highlighting).
ALT+Backspace has no effect on highlighting, as far as I can tell. Block erasing wipes out the complex stuff I wanted, along with the single "oops" I didn't.
Continuing on with de-rezzing Chapter 22...EOL
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Ward Walker said:
Every now and then when I am selecting text in Logos, it will grab a huge amount of text instead of sentence or word/s that I wanted to select. Since I highlight a lot, I have to slow down to see what winds up being highlighted (after all the Logos tools run). However, I get ahead of myself and tend to use the letter key shortcut to fire my highlighter before Logos gets around to showing me what it highlighted. . .
I don't have this problem with my desktop computer.
Sometimes have it on my laptop. I think it's a function of the touch pad. I get the same thing in other applications sometimes. In fact, the only way I've found to turn this off is to right-click something. Very annoying.
Are you finding this on a desktop computer, or laptop with mouse? Is this a laptop with a touch pad?
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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It occurs with my desktop (normal mouse) and with my tablet (pen-based selects.)
I've tried to figure out how to force it to happen, but thus far have never developed a bullet-proof case...it just happens. The amount of text it grabs seems to be somewhat random too, but usually is a very large block--well off the screen of what is currently displayed.
Because I highlight a lot, I may be hitting this bug much more than folks who don't select lots of text as they work in Logos.
I just caught up with where I was when I last encountered this bug...at least it didn't grab all of the ESV!!!
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Ward Walker said:
Since I highlight a lot, I have to slow down to see what winds up being highlighted (after all the Logos tools run).
I would practice that and ensure my highlight region is in the middle of the page, not the top.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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I've never encountered this before, but we'll try to reproduce the issue.
If you (or anyone else) do happen to uncover a set of steps to consistently reproduce the issue that would certainly be helpful. [:)]
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Never happened to me on my laptop or desktop, sounds like you need to slow down. Have you tried ctrl/z for undo?
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I've tried to Undo, but it has no effect on the application of a Highlight...at least on my computer.
Regarding duplicating my experience, I'm ambidexterous (means I can't do anything well with either hand [;)] ) so I select from left to right and right to left. Perhaps I'll put a video camera on the screen someday and try to capture the over-selection in action--it happens to me at least once a study session, so it isn't rare--at least for me.
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