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
  • JRE, 1.6.0_18
• 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