View Menu

The View Menu controls the display of various windows and toolbars in the Interface.  The View Menu is also used to control certain VisualText modes.

Part of the View Menu corresponds roughly to the following sections of the Workspace Toolbar and the Debug Toolbar

Another part corresponds to a piece of the Main Toolbar:

When there is a corresponding element, the toolbar button is shown in the following table:

Button

Menu Item

Description

Toggle Batch Mode

Batch Mode

Instructs VisualText to analyze groups of files in an efficient mode. VisualText does not save intermediate and output files in batch mode. The text analyzer must explicitly create a location for output that is to be retained in batch mode. The NLP++™ function called batchstart() enables a text analyzer to check when the first text in a batch run is being analyzed.

Toggle Highlight Mode

Highlight Mode

When selected, enables highlighting of words or phrases in a text file matching selected pass in the Ana Tab or selected concept in the Gram Tab. Must be selected before an analyzer is run over text. This tool allows you to quickly see whether and where a rule is applying.

Node Variable Mode

When selected, enables the display of node variables in the parse tree.

 

Offsets Mode

Enables the display of offset information for terminal nodes in a parse tree display. Offset information is displayed as two numbers.  For example [0,10], indicates the first character of the node starts at character position 0 (i.e. the first character on a line) and ends at character position 10.

 

Tree Text Mode

Parse tree displays text based on what is in the parse tree.  If nodes are removed from the tree, such as HTML tags, then the parse tree view removes the tag text as well.

Toggle Page Mode

Page Mode

Maintains coordinated sets of documents. For example, when the user runs the analyzer, its corresponding output and tree windows are updated automatically. Similarly when selecting passes in the Ana Tab, Page Mode activates the Next Text and Previous Text buttons to its right.

Toggle Verbose Mode

Verbose Mode

Enables the display of details from the loading of the analyzer. Results are displayed in the Log Window.  When a folder of files is analyzed, the processing time for each file is displayed.

Next Text

Next Text

Displays the next input text file according to the ordering in the Text Tab. Works in Page Mode to automatically update the open documents associated with the input text.

Previous Text

Previous Text

Displays previous input text file according to the ordering in the Text Tab. Works in Page Mode to automatically update the open documents associated with the input text.

Status Bar

Displays status or description of GUI objects and actions.

 

Toolbars

Submenu that controls the visibility of toolbars in the VisualText Main Window. (See below.)

Toggle Find Window

Find Window

Toggles the visibility of the Find Window. By default, the Find Window is located in the bottom right portion of the interface.

Toggle Log Window

Log Window

Toggles the visibility of the Log Window. By default, the Log Window is located in the bottom left portion of the interface.

Toggle Tab Window

Tab Window

Toggles the visibility of the Tab Window. By default, the Tab Window is located in the middle left portion of the interface.

View Toolbars Submenu

Menu Item

Description

Browser

Controls the display of the Browser Toolbar.

Debug

Controls the display of the Debug Toolbar.

Main

Controls the display of the Main Toolbar.

Tab

Controls the display of the Tab Toolbar.

Workspace

Controls the display of the Workspace Toolbar.