BUG: Screencasts of weird highlighting/text selection others have posted about

I have been having the same problems for a few weeks now.  Worst part is when you go to highlight a word and press the hot button for a colour code and as you press the button the selection changes to the rest of the paragraph and the one after, and it unhighlights the word you selected and goes to the next one and all succeeding for quite a while. Then you have to go back delete all highlighting in the next 2 paragraphs, because Control Z (undo) does nothing.  Uggh. If the update mentioned below is going to solve it, I sure can't wait. But I am having the same problems as Mathew but not in the interlinear, but any book I open. Sometimes we just have to be very patient after selecting a word because the program thinks it is time for a tea break and goes off for a while into a "not responding" mode and then it comes out of it a while later and decides if it heard what you said before to it. One other related problem.  When you go to highlight a section of text, it only lets you highlight the first word and then opens a dictionary to tell you what that word meant.  Not really interested in its meaning, just want to highlight a section of text.  

I realise much of this is in this thread, but just wanted to add that the folk here are not the only ones.  I have been struggling to describe the symptoms and reproduce so have not reported up to now. Just seeing what the others have said has helped.  Enough.  Thanks.

6.0b SR-2 downloaded this morning my time, you are still in evening. Indexing completed.

I just had my first enjoyable session with a mouse in Logos in since the 17th. The double click issues seem gone - no opening word definitions when I single clicked a word.  Also when in an open book (didn't get to try it on the Bible yet) I highlighted a group of words, it didn't think for me and disagree with me, or suddenly decide I meant a different group of words.

I am not declaring the problem to be over, but this is at least a positive development.  It may well be with more testing that I can confirm it is over or that I find some other issues still continuing.  So far so good.

Interesting. I am in a book and as I read suddenly the wierd behaviour has started again.  Not sure if it is this book or just this section in the book. When I try to highlight something, the program ignores me or jumps somewhere else in the section not near my mouse pointer, or ignores the first part of a section as I drag and click and then suddenly comes to life highlighing when it feels like it. The screen below just suddenly decided I was interested in "and" when I was passing over the word on my way to the top of the paragraph. Unstable is the best word I can find to describe this.

Bradley. At first it did stop the "unstable" behaviour but I did get it to do some.  It did seem to improve the situation though.  

With that said, my earlier test was over a much longer time period than this brief test I just did.  I assume you are trying to isolate the problem factors. I do not want to give up the links ability just to solve this as I have got very used to it over the last several versions of Logos. But in the spirit of problem solving, no problem.

Bradley, I have noticed some issues in other programs with this unstable mouse behaviour changing the selection I have made.  So for now I am trying to find out as it happens and while doing some work, how much of this is a mouse issue and how much is Logos.  So stand by, I will be back.

Rev Alan Heathcote said:

Worst part is when you go to highlight a word and press the hot button for a colour code and as you press the button the selection changes to the rest of the paragraph and the one after, and it unhighlights the word you selected and goes to the next one and all succeeding for quite a while. Then you have to go back delete all highlighting in the next 2 paragraphs, because Control Z (undo) does nothing

Same problem!  Same frustration!

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Graham Criddle said:

Tom Rach said:

Same problem!  Same frustration!

The fix for this is included in 6.1 beta 4 as per https://community.logos.com/forums/p/100360/693654.aspx#693654 

Thanks Graham,  I saw something about it in one of the beta posts, my desire is that it fixes "my" problem.       But some would say I am hopless  Tom

As per my post of last week.  I got a new mouse and voila (a little French lingo there) my double clicking problems were gone (but the fix last week solved that anyway) and the bleed over into other programs was gone. Now I open Logos and unfortunately the problem continued.  I just can't predict when it is going to happen. It happens 15 times in the Bible to 1 time in any other book.  Some paragraphs in the Bible seem totally faulty and then the next one is fine.  I now need to master that video program so I can send video of it happening, unless one of you other guys with the same problem can do this for us. 

I also note the 6.1 note (and that someone else is posting as I post). We all wait with baited breath for 6.1.  Again, thanks for all those who are working on this.  We all know it is just a coding error somewhere but as my sons will tell me, finding it, can take ages sometimes.  Thanks, Alan

Maxine, I sure understand your frustration, and I do a ton of highlighting too, which worked fine until mid Jan when this problem came in for the first time - see my post way up top there somewhere.

Until this is fixed, here are a few ways I have helped myself make the best of the problem.  

When you highlight say three words (I will keep referring to this as an example, but it happens with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc words as well), wait one second before clicking your colour button or pressing your hotbutton for the highlight colour. If it holds on the three words for 1-2 secs, you are safe to press. Its when you don't wait, it gets you and you just highlighted the next several paragraphs below and overwrote your previous highlights - you know the story.

Second, when you go to highlight those three words and you haven't quite reached the last one and it decides, "no that is not what you want, you want none of those words, you want the rest of the paragraph which follows on afterwards" obviously unclick and start again.  Do two words, remembering to wait one second, and highlight them. Then if it doesn't think for you you have part of it right. Then go to the end of the section and highlight going backwards overlapping with just one or two letters of the part you hightlighted, wait one second, and then Bob is your uncle, unless you are a Zimbabwean, then he is your President, and you are lucky he hasn't confiscated your computer yet!

I know none of this solves the problem, but it can reduce the frustration until it is solved. Yes it does add some time to your process, but a whole lot less than having to un-highlight sections that decided to highlight themselves when you didn't wait one second. 

Alan