TextGrid : Menu Bar

The menu bar on the uppermost level displays some menu items (compare e.g. the GUI of internet browsers and Word for Windows 97-2003). It consists of several items: “File”, “Edit”, “XML”, “Tools”, “Window”, and “Help”.

Under “File” you can manage:

• Aggregations
•  Creating, opening, saving and closing Projects, Objects, and local files
•  Revisions
•  Publish 
•  Opening an Object via its URI or copy the URI
  
•  Metadata 
•  Import and Export 
•  Hide network warnings
•  Restart  or exit  the TextGridLab

If oXygen is installed, an URL for a FTP or SFTP connection can be opened with the oXygen WebDAV support.

“Edit” offers operations especially for the XML Editor and the Text Image Link Editor like "Undo", "Cut" and "Paste" or "Find and Replace".

Under “XML” you can find functions for working with XML code in the XML Editor. Therefore "XML" will be discussed in the menu bar chapter about the XML Editor.

“Tools” allows you to open the most important tools at any time. With “Show View” you can open the TextGrid views, i.e. the Navigator, the Dictionary Results View, the Metadata Editor and the Unicode Character Table  but also others that are for the most part described in the Eclipse documentation:

http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/

“Window” gives you the possibility to open a new editor view if an editor is already opened (). Furthermore it has options to navigate through the Laboratory:

• "Navigation > Quick Access" defines the appearance of "fast views" when opened
• You can activate and switch between editors
• Activated editors can be minimized and maximized
• You can choose the previous perspective, editor or view

In “Window” you can also change the preferences (). Most of the possibilities are described in the Eclipse documentation. But some preferences affect the TextGridLab directly:

• The “TextGrid Content Types and File Extension Mapping” configures the mapping between TextGrid Content Types (as regular expression matching the content type metadata field of objects) and the internal file extensions.
• In the “TextGridLab Dialog Settings” the user can choose if CRUD warnings should be shown to indicate database problems.
• In “TextGridLab Server and Proxy” proxy server and compressed data transfer can be configured.

There are also some possibilities to change the preferences of different modules that might have been installed.

Under “Help” in the menu bar you can

• open the Welcome Screen
• see and change your authentication data
• use the Help
• report a bug and save the logfile
• see keyboard shortcuts by clicking “Key Assist...”
• handle software updates
• get additional tools and services via the "Eclipse Marketplace"
• get information about the currently used TextGrid version

Some modules like oXygen also offer some features in the "Help" menu if installed.