ok, here's my mistakes, and some questions.

1) I didn't read the manual :-)  (of course, most users won't, either)

2) I looked at all of the menu picks across the top, especially under "Edit",
but didn't find any way to switch which annotation is being shown.  (I didn't
think to right click in the editor window).

3) I speed-read the first part of the manual, and discovered I was supposed to
right click in the window and switch the annotation that was being shown.

4) I expected that picking a type in that window would show all annotations of
that type, including subtypes - but it excludes the subtype, it seems.  So for
the type "Annotation" (of which Room Number is a subtype - nothing is shown.

5) I wonder about the lack of namespaces in the pick list.  This would make it
difficult if there were multiple types, in different namespaces, to pick the one
you might want.

6) The menu identifier "Mode" didn't suggest to me that this was where to select
which annotation(s) were going to be shown.

7) The overall editor name that appears when you go to a file in the package
explorer and right click and do "Open with" and there you see "Annotation
Editor" - when I first saw this I wondered if it was the CAS Editor, or maybe
some other plugin that had been installed, that was providing a way to look at
Java @annotations ...  Maybe a better name is "UIMA XMI Editor" if it edits only
xmi - style CASes, or "UIMA CAS Editor" if it edits multiple kinds.

8) Is there a way to view more than one type of annotation at a time?

9) Is there a way to view feature structures that are not subtypes of
"Annotation" (that is, have no references back into the text)?

-Marshall

On 4/8/2011 7:05 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> On 4/8/11 12:41 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
>> I was running with the official release 2.3.1 version installed from the
>> uima/eclipse-update-site.
>>
>> Is that one broken? -M
>
> No, it should not. In order to see annotations you need
> either to switch the editor mode or mark them in
> the "Shown Annotations" context menu.
>
> And do you use a Cas Editor project?
>
> Jörn
>
>

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