Mailing-List: contact uima-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of creswick@gmail.com designates
 209.85.210.174 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to
         :content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
        b=hfy4AhcZcLQuiW9JqBzyMWeEsxkOYXCZr+cUqMltDPAJR8XIf1BBDPXIVO7Hj98HEN
         4M7maRmMdH3UTjs7z01YD/kzoNlMlJb6bKwni9e+dz6GK4Q6ZhepK/nbs3bKfSn0/O6F
         3y2PsIWcqAXlvE6+jgRe7t7pzmVeQ9AQu0GPY=
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <c834ec80911231059x4f8aac62mfca14b10797ed4c4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c834ec80911231059x4f8aac62mfca14b10797ed4c4@mail.gmail.com>
From: Rogan Creswick <creswick@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:36:00 -0800
Message-ID: <c834ec80911231436j1d87a295m9afa2bd1dcc55d0d@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: CasEditor -- Cumbersome UI, or am I just overlooking something?
To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I've found solutions to some of my problems, notes in-line below, for
the record.

(adding and adjusting annotations still seems to be quite difficult though.=
..)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Rogan Creswick <creswick@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>
> I haven't been able to get the current svn version to create a CAS
> project correctly (I can't find any way to add a typesystem, or
> specify corpus folders via the UI). I was able to do this with an
> older stand-alone RCP version of the Cas Editor, so I copied a project
> from there, but that's not a long-term solution.

I was only using the CasEditor plugin in Eclipse when I posted my
first email. Compiling and installing all the following plugins into
the eclipse dropins folder added quite a few necessary features.
These plugins are:

org.apache.uima.caseditor_2.3.0.incubating.jar
org.apache.uima.desceditor_2.3.0.incubating.jar
org.apache.uima.jcas.jcasgenp_2.3.0.incubating.jar
org.apache.uima.pear_2.3.0.incubating.jar
org.apache.uima.runtime_2.3.0.incubating.jar

> I have also been unable to find a way to add annotations to a
> document, or create a new xcas file. =A0(I can create a file named
> foo.xcas, in a corpus folder, but it is just a plain text file --
> there doesn't seem to be a 'new xcas file' option that will populate
> the file with the proper boilerplate.

To create a new XCAS file, right-click on a corpus folder in a
CasEditor project in the Corpus Explorer view, and select 'import'.
Then, choose "Document" from under Cas Editor in the 'Create a
Document' dialog that appears.  Click 'Next', then use the add/remove
buttons to choose the files you want to import.

Finally, click Finish, and the files should be created (with an xmi extensi=
on).

Adding annotations is still difficult, however.  Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated!