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:
| TOOLBAR | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Main | Standard functions found in all GUI applications, including open, close, cut, and paste |
| Browser | Functions for managing web browser windows |
| Tab | Functions for managing the Gram, Ana, and Text Tabs |
| Workspace | Functions for the Analyzer and Knowledge Base |
| Debug | Tools 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 WINDOW | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Gram | Manage user-added text samples for automatic rule generation |
| Ana | Manage the analyzer sequence and pass files |
| Text | Manage 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:
