Analyzer Menu

The Analyzer Menu controls the actions of an analyzer. It is also used in generating rules.

The Analyzer Menu corresponds to some elements in the Workspace Toolbar.

When there is a corresponding element, the toolbar button is shown in the following table:

Button	Menu Item	Description
	Compile Analyzer	Turning on this toggle, followed by loading an analyzer, results in compiling the analyzer while it is being loaded. This results in the creation of a RUN.DLL library, which can be called from an external program. Currently, VisualText does not load the compiled analyzer library. The Compile Analyzer toggle is turned off after an analyzer is loaded.
	Generate Rules	Submenu for generating rules. (See below.)
	Run	Runs the analyzer on the currently selected input file. (Analyzers cannot be run on files with a .log extension.)
	Run Next	Runs the analyzer on the next file in the directory after the currently selected file.
	Slog	Does a Generate Rules All, followed by a Run on the currently selected input.
	Stop	Stops the current analyzer.
	Generate Logs	When selected, enables generation of intermediate logs for each pass in the analyzer sequence. Must be enabled before an analyzer is run over text. This function gives you the ability to display and inspect the intermediate parse trees, one for each pass, and the final tree. It may slow the parse substantially in many-pass analyzers, since all intermediate trees are written to disk. If the function is not enabled, only the final tree is available for display.
	View	Submenu for viewing text analyzer information such as input files, output files, pass files, and parse trees. (See below.)

Generate Rules Submenu

Button	Menu Item	Description
	All	Exhaustively generates all rules as specified by samples in the Gram Tab. Depending on the number of samples in the Gram Tab, this can be slow. However, to assure that rule generation is correct and complete, this option should be used whenever feasible.
	Dirty	Generates rules only for those rule concepts in the Gram Tab that have the Dirty attribute set. This attribute is set by the system, for example, when new sample data is added to the concept. This is a "quick-and-dirty" rule generation that most often works well, but may not always agree with the Generate Rules > All option. It is used for rapid prototyping. See Mark for Generation in the Gram Tab Popup Menu, where the Dirty attribute can be set.
	Unlocked	Generates rules only for those concepts in the Gram Tab that have the unlocked attribute set. Locking concepts should only be done by the expert user. A concept's attributes can be viewed and hand edited via the Attribute Editor.

Button	Menu Item	Description
	Concept Tree	Displays the concept tree of a parsed document in the Workspace.
	Current Text	Displays the currently selected input data file in the Workspace.
	Dump Files	Displays the output files associated with a parsed document in the Workspace. When there are multiple files, a pulldown tab to the right of the button lists available files.
	Output File	Displays output.txt file associated with parsed input document in the Workspace. This icon is reserved for files with the name output.txt only.
	Parse Tree	Displays the full parse tree of a parsed document in the Workspace.
	Pass File	Displays selected pass file in the Workspace.
	Web Page	Displays selected html page in a browser window in the Workspace.