Am 03.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Jörn Kottmann:
On 11/3/11 8:19 PM, Peter Klügl wrote:
To browse annotations you use the outline view, and for FSes the Feature Structure Browser
view.


The browser displays all annotations in a tree sorted by their types and provides filtering fields for the type name and the covered text. So when you have many annotation of many different types, you can get a faster overview of the annotations you are looking for.


A type tree representation is not always useful, so I believe we would need both flat and hierarchical types. What do you think to support both in the outline, and provide an option to choose the representation which suits the users needs. Like you can do in the "Project Explorer"?


I don't know if that's better. The outline only displays shown annotations where the browser displays all and is able to show them (checking the checkbox). We can plan to merge them in the long run, but for now it's easier for the user to just switch the view than the change the settings in the outline. I like both views and I am using both representations in the same workflow.

Search support could also be added, if I remember correctly there is already a jira for that.

What does the selection view do? Shown annotations which a user could select at the caret position?


Yes, that is useful for me because I have a lot of overlapping annotations. For example, I model some features for CRFs as annotations with TextMarker rules and with this view I can inspect the tokens.

Selecting some kind of annotation or feature structure is still a weak spot in the Annotation Editor and
the surrounding views.

I am +1 to improve these things after 2.4.0, then we have enough time to think everything through
and can also improve other useability problems in one go.



I agree. In the new views there are also still some thing missing, I think, like when selecting an annotation in the browser, it isn't set in the edit view.


Peter


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