On 4/8/2011 8:53 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > On 4/8/11 2:20 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: >> (You might be able to tell I haven't really used this in a long while ... >> :-) - >> so this feedback might be typical of a new-ish user). >> >> 1) In the outline view - I expected to be able to click on instances of >> RoomNumber and see the features, covered text etc., and maybe even edit the >> features. But apparently you have to open another viewer - the "edit view" >> for >> this. Maybe these two views could be combined? >> > The covered text is displayed to some degree, because space is limited, didn't > you notice it?
I did notice it - nice :-). > Sure it would be possible to combine these two views. > When I made it I put it into an extra view because then it can easily be > reused by some other > maybe even non-text kind Cas Editor implementation. maybe there's a way to have the best of both approaches? not sure... >> 2) In the menu pick: Windows -> Show View -> Other -> there's a pick for >> "Cas >> Editor". It might be good to prefix all our menus with UIMA - to avoid name >> collisions in the future. > +1 to do that, is it an eclipse convention? I don't know if it's an eclipse convention, but I think it's in general a good approach for systems like eclipse where many "vendors" can each contribute to menus > >> 3) I see (on my system) in the pick list from Windows -> Show View -> >> Other -> >> Cas Editor : two entries for "Edit viewer" ? > It really exists two times, because otherwise dragging feature structures > around is not possible. > Lets say FS a has a field which references FS b. Now you want to create FS a > and FS b, and then link > the field of FS a to b. For this you can now select FS a, lock it in one of > the two FS views and select FS b, > now you can simply drag b on the field of a. > > Any ideas to make linking between FSes easier are very welcome. OK, let's think more about this. > > In my opinion we should switch one day from the swing based tooling to eclipse > tooling, > I believe we have now most of the features we would need to make such a > switch. > As a first step we could deprecate the swing tooling and update our tutorials > to the eclipse tooling. Well, not everyone likes / uses Eclipse. And some people find command-line tooling to be best in certain situations. So I would be wary of doing this. -Marshall > > Jörn > >
