On 5/4/11 11:10 AM, Jens Grivolla wrote:
Hi,
I have recently started using the Annotation Editor (as installed in
Eclipse from http://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site/,
i.e. the official 2.3.1 version).
In order to add annotations it seems that you need to select the
annotation type through the "Mode" context menu, which is quite time
consuming (and error prone) if you have a large type system, and
especially when the wanted type is derived through several levels of
supertypes. Given that you already select the types of interest
through the "Annotation Styles" configuration, it would be much faster
to e.g. select your annotation mode directly from the Outline view
(which only contains your chosen subset).
You do not need to switch via the Mode context menu to add an annotation
of the desired type. The Mode type is just the type
you can annotate with the fewest key strokes. You can use "Shift" +
"Enter" to annotate a piece of text and then choose the
annotation type from a list of available types in a pop up. Each type in
this list is combined with a key short cut. When you remember
the short cut you can do something like this "Shift" + "Enter" + "p" to
create an annotation.
Where p is the letter written in front of one of your annotations.
Does that help you?
I will have a look at the outline view, maybe we can add there a button
or context menu to switch the mode of the editor.
It seems that there are quite a few changes in the trunk, but I'm not
sure how to best use those versions, preferably without messing up my
Eclipse configuration (which is a bit fragile when using manually
installed plugins).
We fixed a few bugs and removed the Cas Editor Project support. I
suggest that you just create a normal eclipse project
and then place a type system at the default location.
Jörn
