Better linked synchronization (especially of Bible comparison window)
When you have multiple linked resources open, any change in the active window causes the others to synch, which is good. But I like to have the Bible comparison window linked to my active Bible, so that any passage I look up shows me all the Bible versions at once. The problem is, if I forget and just enter a chapter or a book name in my Bible window (or scroll to the beginning of a book), then the Bible comparison window tries to synch up by loading the entire book, in fifteen different versions, and the computer locks up for a minute or two while they all load.
Could you either 1) make the Bible comparison window smart enough not to try to synch so much material (perhaps that particular window would only synch enough text to fill the window, until or unless you make it the active window, or it would default to comparing a single verse unless you specifically enter a longer range, so if I type "Romans" in my Bible, the comparison would just show 1:1). or 2) offer some sort of a one-button manual synching (or one button to turn all synching on or off).
I also like to have lots of Bibles in tabs, usually six English plus Greek, Hebrew, and LXX (and a few commentaries). And I would like to link them all together, but I dont because it slows scrolling to a crawl as they all try to stay in synch, even though most of them aren't even visible, and it's only once in a while that I switch to some of those other tabs. A manual button that would say "Synch all open Bibles to the active window now" would provide most of the convenience of linking with none of the constant lagging. Or even a program setting that non-visible tabs would not synch until they are brought to the front might speed things up a bit.
These problems are solved in Text Comparison version 2, available in the Logos 7 Starter Feature Set or Logos Now.
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Eric commented
I agree. On my Mac in OS X, it would be nice to have smooth vertical scrolling like iOS has now (thank you!). Linking other resources that are open in other windows slows down the vertical scrolling, but even without links, OS X scrolling is a bit choppy.