Accordance Bible Software Blog Comments

Sam

Sam — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:37:59 -0400

I've only been using Acc9 for a little bit -- forgot the disclosure triangle was gone. As a former programmer and generally-computer-savvy user, it seems foreign to me that the "proper" way to be done searching still leaves the search intact. So my search window up top will still have my search terms and matching results will still be highlighted, even though I'm no longer interested in them.

Maybe I can re-frame my question this way: Why is it important that Accordance return to the top of the text when doing a search for all verses (i.e. double-clicking the Verses button)? Why not stay at the current marker? It seems arbitrary to me that you would assume the user wants to leave their current position. It's particularly frustrating when reading the NT in Greek/English parallel, when double-clicking takes you back to Genesis and hence a half-blank window.

David Lang

David Lang — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:27:40 -0400

Sam, I'm not sure I fully understand your complaint here, and I suspect from your description of the process that you're not using Accordance 9. In Accordance 9, there's no disclosure triangle for More Options, just a simple slider that you can drag or click to toggle between all context and none.

The context slider is designed to make it easy to do a search, scroll through the hits until you find a verse you want to explore in context, then drag the slider to get the context. Want to go back to exploring other search hits? Remove the context and scroll the list of hits again.

If you are merely doing a search so that you can find a given passage to read, and it bothers you to begin reading with the search results still highlighted, just select the reference of the verse you want to read in context and click the Context button on the Resource palette. That will open a separate text window showing that verse in context with no search results.

Hope this helps.

Sam

Sam — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:44:41 -0400

I guess I get that. It seems unintuitive to me. I'm done searching. I feel uncomfortable (I don't know why, and it's probably JUST me) leaving a search enabled even if I then drag the context to ALL.

A more relevant issue, perhaps, is that it is very easy to go back to viewing the whole text. It is more cumbersome to "zoom" in and out in terms of context. Double-click in the right spot and and wham! you've got your search cleared. Oh, you want to see the whole text? OK, mouse over there, click disclosure triangle here, slide this over there. OK, context set.

Now I want to search again, so back to the context slider... OK, set context back to where I need it. Now search. And on and on. Wish it was easier.

David

David — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:06:48 -0400

Sam, when wanting to see the context of a search result, you don't want to change your search by double-clicking the Verses button. Instead, simply drag the context slider all the way to the right. You'll see all the surrounding verses while retaining your search result (and your place in the text!).

Hope this helps.

Sam

Sam — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:08:33 -0400

One frustration I have is this -- let's say I do a search. Now I want to go back to viewing the whole text. I double click "Verses" and I get returned to the top of the text. I would much prefer to stay where I am. What am I doing wrong?