Sixth Function: ELM

We have finished (at this point) with the browse window with the exception of one major function. I have saved this function for a blog all on its own because of its usefulness and importance. The function which I am talking about is called ELM or External Links Manager. The reason that this is considered part of the browse window is because the button for it is located directly above the browse window. The button looks much like a general link button with an white oval with a section missing from the top, this particular button also has a question mark on it.
The ELM takes links from various websites and other programs and uses them alongside of Bibleworks. This can be very effective especially if you have multiple programs that you are running and would like to use. A very good example might be the use of Logos and BW. With this if you wanted to lookup a word or lemma within a lexicon that is located in Logos, but not in BW you can do it with this module of BW. By doing this when you right click on a word one of the many options will be to look this up within the particular word in Logos when clicked, Logos will pop up and immediately go to the search for the word which you chose. This is usually done with something called a lemma. A Lemma is a lexical or dictionary form of a word.
To set this up can be more of an advanced thing, that even I am not the most comfortable with. I used the example in the help file to see how to set it up with a website for a word search, however, I am not truly sure of how to use it with Logos at this point. However, there are something that I do know when it comes to setup.
When first setting up you need a link (especially for websites) anytime you are going to lookup a word the web address will normally have the word included. Now the NULL setting is simply to tell BW what it needs to supply, if it doesn’t need to supply anything keep it at NULL if it does then change it to what needs to be supplied. Once changed you can move on. Let us say you need to supply a word or as we might say, the “lemma” then we would chose that. Once it is chosen we must change the link so that where it would normally supply the word we then place and this is the key word so that BW knows this is the location to supply the writing.
Overall, in spite of the complex set up, I think this is very useful for websites as well as other programs through BW and not beside it as it were, this will help others and me to use other programs while at the same time keeping BW at the forefront of my machine.