What is new?
The Visual Tagging Tool (2010) is developed in Java (Swing) 1.6.
Many major design changes and feature enhancements are completed from the VTT-2008 (NLM internal release) and are described as follows:
Major Design Changes
- Add category field to Tag object
- Complete OO design and implementation on VTT to provide VTT Java APIs
- One VTT application to open multiple VTT files simultaneously
- VTT file format
- Tags
- New header for tags (add Category)
- Add tag category to the 2nd field for each Tag object
- Markups
- New header for tags (add TagCategory)
- Add tag category to the 4th field for each Markup object
Feature Enhancements
- Package
- New features
- Compare difference between two VTT files
- Automatically adjustment on font size to fit print out to 1 line
- Zoom in/out feature for global viewing factor
- Complete check on VTT format and data in input files with message dialog boxes
- New design of find a term dialog box
- Create a new VTT window for opening a VTT file
- Line wrapping feature
- New implementation for tags related GUI components (adding category)
- New feature of quick key mapping assignment for tags
- New implementation for markups related GUI components to be non-modal
- New implementation for markups related GUI components with real-time updates
- Undo/redo operations on markup join operations
- New features to sort tags in tag list alphabetically
- Fully dispose all GUI objects when exit the VTT application
- New implementation of VTT menu bar and popup menu
- Updated user documents and tutorial
- Provide vttCheck to check VTT files