Unfortunately the Find in Dictionary feature in PT8 (and beta versions of 7.6) actually “dumbed down” the capabilities of the Find in Dictionary feature in PT7. It used to display the FLEx entry just like it looked in the “preview” pane above the data entry area. THIS IS THE PREFERRED behavior (certainly by me anyway), because then the user can set up the preview in FLEx to look just right, and PT would show it that way. But apparently this is very tricky to do and maintain across programs. Also, the columns shown in PT8 Find in Dictionary (when there is not an exact match) are not user-definable, like they are in the same dialog in FLEx, so in the end, they are not very helpful (e.g. it shows a column called “Allomorphs” which is pointless in our language; whereas in FLEx we show the English and Indonesian definitions, and English and Indonesian reverse field columns–these are much more useful to us, with lots more information than the “gloss” field).
Bottom line: from what I have found, what is shown in the PT8 version of the Find in Dictionary window is an arbitrary and non-configurable subset of the fields. It needs to be upgraded, and it is in the “To Do” List somewhere. But many feel it’s a cosmetic request and not functionally worth the extra coding involved.
(Personally, I would rather PT8 simply call FLEx in an independent window, hand off the string, and made FLEx do the work and display the information. Then we could keep working in PT8, and the FLEx look up window would simply stay there until we sent it another string. Maybe this way PT8 wouldn’t have to maintain a lot of duplicate code either.)
