Logos 4.5b Beta 1
Logos 4.5b Beta 1 (Mac and Windows v4.52.0.1761) was released on February 29, 2012.
Unofficial note: Many users are reporting several serious problems with this beta on the Mac, and recommending that others do not upgrade at this time. The Windows version is unaffected by these bugs.
New Features
- Logos Resources
- Added support for new display features (that will be used by yet-to-be-released resources).
- Notes
- Reduced memory usage of large Notes documents.
- Video Resources
- Added initial support for video resources.
- Upgraded SQLite database engine to v3.7.10.
- This adds some bug fixes, should give better performance, and may improve SQLite reliability.
- SQLite errors are logged to the application error log.
New Features for Mac
- Search Panel Bible
- Implemented ‘Search (while typing)’ option.
Bug Fixes
- Guides
- Fixed bug that prevented completion from reappearing if focus was moved and then returned to the reference box.
- Notes
- Fixed bug which prevented changes to the default font family/size from being applied correctly to visible blank note content.
- Personal Book Builder
- Fix crash reading files created by Wondershare PDF Creator.
Bug Fixes for Mac
- File
- Fixed bug that caused document types to be bolded when using the search filter. (See this thread.)
- Fonts
- Fixed crash caused by changing default Greek font with a specific resource open. (See this thread.)
- Home Page
- Fixed bug that prevented ‘Find’ box from being dismissed when the home page was opened.
- Fixed bug that caused ‘Recent Reading Lists’ ribbon item to be blank.
- New Guide Template
- Fixed text alignment issue for resource pickers.
- Rich Text Editor
- Fixed bug that caused middle line in bulleted and numbered list buttons to be missing.
- Text Comparison
- Fixed bug that caused strikethrough in ‘Show base text’ button to be missing.
Bug Fixes for Windows
- Accessibility
- Added keyboard accessibility for ‘x’ in the Find box.
- Improved keyboard support in the reverse interlinear ribbon.
- The first tab stop will no longer be off-screen; the focus will land on the center column. The ribbon will pan left or right as the selection changes, using the arrow keys to navigate.
- Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R will toggle reverse interlinear ribbon. When ribbon becomes visible, the focus will automatically be set to the center column.
- When focus is in the ribbon, pressing the Enter key will open the context (right-click) menu.
- Added automation names for the context menu tabs.
- The row selector column of the ribbon is accessible keyboard, and the context menu key or Shift+F10 to open the context menu to change which rows are displayed.
Known Issues
- Video Resources
- Logos 4.5b Beta 1 does not read the LDLS3 *.lbxvid video resource format. These videos used Windows Media Player, so are not compatible with non-Windows operating systems.
Known Issues for Mac
Unofficial note: Many users are reporting several serious problems with this beta on the Mac, and recommending that others do not upgrade at this time. The Windows version is unaffected by these bugs.
- Syntax Search
- The specifics pane of the Syntax search document is not displaying any text but the title. No options are available.
- Notes
- Notes tied to references are not displaying the reference in the Note item. No existing Note items are displaying their resource/reference links either.
- Bible or Morph Search
- When using Analysis view of results, grouping by one or more column headings, and then clicking one of the grouped items in the top section will cause the results to disappear.
- Video resources
- The Logos 4 video player does not display on Mac OS X version 10.6 “Snow Leopard”