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Screen Layout

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, trees, pass file, etc.

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:

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