Screen Layout

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The general screen layout of VisualText includes Toolbars, the Main Menu, the Tab Window, the Workspace, and the Log and Find Windows:

The principal controls are the Main Menu, the Toolbars, and the Tabs.

Main Menu

The main menu is a superset of the buttons available in the Toolbars:

Toolbars

VisualText has 5 toolbars: Main, Browser, Tab, Knowledge Base, and Debug:

The table below describes each Toolbar:

TOOLBARDESCRIPTION
MainStandard functions found in all GUI applications, including open, close, cut, and paste
BrowserFunctions for managing web browser windows
TabFunctions for managing the Gram, Ana, and Text Tabs
WorkspaceFunctions for the Analyzer and Knowledge Base
DebugTools for examining the input text file, tree, pass file

Tab Window

The Tab Window area accesses three key windows: the Gram Tab, Ana Tab, and Text Tab.

The table below describes each:

TAB WINDOWDESCRIPTION
GramManage user-added text samples for automatic rule generation
AnaManage the analyzer sequence and pass files
TextManage input files, output files, and other folders and files

Right Click Menus

Right-click popup menus play an important role in VisualText. The Gram Tab, Ana Tab, Text Tab, Knowledge Base, Pass File Windows, Parse Tree Windows, Text Windows all employ right-click menus to provide context-sensitive functions quickly. Below is the right-click menu for the Text Tab: