Hello Robin! On Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 9:35 PM, you wrote:
RA> Hmm, can't confirm that here. I assume your global view mode setting RA> (for this test) was "No view mode" as well. Robin, your comment makes me think I wasn't completely clear in my description. All these changes were done using the drop-down menu View, from The Bat!'s main window, above the listing of messages. I am a mouse person. Before View Modes were put into The Bat!, I did my View settings from that View drop-down menu. So, I assumed that things would so continue, when I got v. 2.11. The first time I clicked on tbudl after that, I lost all my chronological arrangement. The messages were arranged by From (I always view threads by None). This threw me for a total loop. I went to View and re-set to Sort-by Received time. The message list re-sorted properly. I went to another Folder. Came back and found the messages sorted by To. Very buggy behavior to me at the time and I didn't know nearly so much as I know now. Someone asked if I were accidentally clicking on the Column Name and causing the re-setting. No, I wasn't. But it gave me a clue as to another place to do my settings. I scrolled over and clicked on Received Time column name. After that, the Sort-by setting stuck. Although it was not reflected in the View drop-down menu. Now, yesterday when David Boggon wrote in about his problem, I realized that this behavior was included in it. Re-tested using the View drop-down menu to do Sort-by settings. With View/Global View Mode/No View Mode ticked. Changes in the Sort-by settings made on this drop-down menu still do not stick. Stuart Cuddy has explained to me on tbbeta that this is by design. I have already made a BT report. But I think the design is so poor, lacking any understandable documentation for it, that I think the problem still needs to be addressed. The choices in the drop-down menu need to be worded so as to reflect the fact that they are temporary changes. Thank you so much for testing this and reporting back. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.0.2.1 (Professional Edition) on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
