Problems with selecting references and highlighting windows
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:31 am
Hi all,
I've been using Bookends for a couple of years now (switched to v 11 a while ago), but I ran into a problem recently, which is very annoying. I don't know what's causing it, but it does appear to effect both of my machines, so I suspect it's nothing related to my operating system or anything like that. Anyway, I'm just throwing it out here... maybe some of you have had the same problem, or know a fix.
The problem seems to concern highlighting parts of the app's different windows. For instance, when I click on a reference in my list, the window at the bottom which normally then shows the entire reference in the selected style, does not react at all. As you can tell from the screenshot added to this post, it does highlight the reference I clicked on ('De Vooys 1943'), but it does not seem to select it -- rather, I'm still seeing the reference below of another work ('De Vocht 2003'). I do not always experience this problem, and it seems to go away for a while when I press TAB, but after switching to another Mac OS X app and back, it's there again. In any case, even when I use the TAB trick, right-clicking any reference provokes no reaction by the app at all. When I want to send a reference to Word, I can still use the CMD+Y shortcut, which causes BE to send my reference to the clipboard, but the program window does not change to Microsoft Word -- I need to change windows myself, and press CMD+V myself to get the {}-reference in Word. Another, probably related problem, is that I do not seem to be able to open any groups of references anymore. Whatever I do (the TAB thing doesn't work here), it just won't select any group I click on, and keeps showing me all 843 references I have, instead of just a subset.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? It's pretty annoying, and I have no clue what to do.
Thansk already,
Rik
I've been using Bookends for a couple of years now (switched to v 11 a while ago), but I ran into a problem recently, which is very annoying. I don't know what's causing it, but it does appear to effect both of my machines, so I suspect it's nothing related to my operating system or anything like that. Anyway, I'm just throwing it out here... maybe some of you have had the same problem, or know a fix.
The problem seems to concern highlighting parts of the app's different windows. For instance, when I click on a reference in my list, the window at the bottom which normally then shows the entire reference in the selected style, does not react at all. As you can tell from the screenshot added to this post, it does highlight the reference I clicked on ('De Vooys 1943'), but it does not seem to select it -- rather, I'm still seeing the reference below of another work ('De Vocht 2003'). I do not always experience this problem, and it seems to go away for a while when I press TAB, but after switching to another Mac OS X app and back, it's there again. In any case, even when I use the TAB trick, right-clicking any reference provokes no reaction by the app at all. When I want to send a reference to Word, I can still use the CMD+Y shortcut, which causes BE to send my reference to the clipboard, but the program window does not change to Microsoft Word -- I need to change windows myself, and press CMD+V myself to get the {}-reference in Word. Another, probably related problem, is that I do not seem to be able to open any groups of references anymore. Whatever I do (the TAB thing doesn't work here), it just won't select any group I click on, and keeps showing me all 843 references I have, instead of just a subset.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? It's pretty annoying, and I have no clue what to do.
Thansk already,
Rik