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7 The View menu

This menu contains commands which allow you to customise the appearance of the main SARA window.

7.1 Tool Bar command

Choose this command to display or hide the tool bar at the top of the window. A check mark appears next to this menu item when the tool bar is displayed.

The tool bar contains a row of buttons, each of which provides rapid access to one of the following commonly used SARA functions.
The SARA Tool Bar The buttons, together with a brief description of what each one does, are listed below, in left to right order.
  • Opens an existing query. Equivalent to selecting "Open" from the File menu (3 ).
  • Saves the current query. Equivalent to selecting "Save" from the File menu (3 ).
  • Copies the current result to the clipboard. Equivalent to selecting "Copy" from the Edit menu (4 ).
  • Prints the results of the current query. Equivalent to selecting "Print" from the File menu (3 ).
  • Opens the word query dialogue box (3.2 ).
  • Opens the phrase query dialogue box (3.3 ).
  • Opens the POS query dialogue box (3.5 ).
  • Opens the pattern query dialogue box (3.4 ).
  • Opens the SGML dialogue box (3.6 ).
  • Opens the Query Builder dialogue box (3.7 ).
  • Opens the CQL Query dialogue box (3.8 ).
  • Toggles between Line and Page mode for display of results. Equivalent to selecting "Concordance" from the Query menu. (6.4.1 ).
  • Toggles between left, centre, and right alignment of the highlighted words in a line mode display (no menu equivalent).
  • Selects the first item in the current result set (no menu equivalent).
  • Selects the previous item in the current result set (no menu equivalent).
  • Selects the next item in the current result set (no menu equivalent)
  • Selects the last item in the current result set (no menu equivalent).
  • Opens a Bibliographic data window for the currently selected item in the current result set. Equivalent to selecting "Source" from the Query menu. (6.7 ).
  • Opens the online Windows help file. Equivalent to pressing F1 (9 ).
  • Switches to Context Help mode (no menu equivalent). In this mode, the cursor changes to a large question mark. Move the cursor to any button or box and click on it to display a brief explanation of its function.

7.2 Status Bar command

Choose this command to display or hide the status bar at the bottom of the main SARA window. A check mark appears next to the menu item when the status bar is displayed.

The status bar has three areas: the leftmost part is used to display messages describing the action to be executed by the currently selected menu item or tool bar button; the central part provides information about the currently selected solution; the rightmost part displays information about the current state of the keyboard.

The left area of the status bar describes actions of menu items as you use the arrow keys to navigate through menus. This area similarly shows messages that describe the actions of tool bar buttons as you depress them, before releasing them. If after viewing the description of the tool bar button command you wish not to execute the command, then release the mouse button while the pointer is off the tool bar button.

The centre area of the status bar identifies the currently selected solution. The first pane shows the number of this solution, the total number of solutions and the number of texts from which they are taken; the next shows the three letter identifier of the text in which the current solution occurs; and the last gives the number of this <s> element within this text. For example, if the currently selected solution occurs in the 145th s-unit of text ABC, and is the third of 12 solutions taken from 8 texts, the display will read 3:12(8) ABC 145.

The status bar display may not be updated until a set of results has been completely downloaded.

The rightmost part of the status bar will contain one or more of the following words if the corresponding key on the keyboard is currently latched down:

  • CAP (Caps Lock key)
  • NUM (Num Lock key)
  • SCRL (Scroll Lock key)

7.3 Font

Selecting Font from the View menu causes the standard Windows Font dialogue box to appear. This dialogue box lists the fonts available on your system. You can use it to set the font in which solutions are to be displayed.

7.4 Colours

Selecting Colours from the View menu causes the Colours dialogue box to appear. This is used to specify the colours used to display parts of the results. Different colours may be specified for each part of speech code, for the query focus (i.e. the actual hit word) and for the default. You can also specify that any of these items is to be displayed in a bold face, in italic, or both.

To change the colour used for words of a particular type, first highlight the relevant item or items from the list at the left of the dialogue box by clicking on them with the mouse, in the same way as words are selected from the word query box. Next press theColour button, which causes the colour palatte dialogue box to open. Click on the desired colour. The palatte dialogue box disappears, and the Sample box in the colours dialogue box changes to show the effect of the choice just made. If this is unsatisfactory, click the Reset button to revert to the original colour. The Bold and Italic check boxes can be selected to change the weight and slant of the selected items independently of their colour.

A set of such specifications is known as a colour scheme. Each colour scheme is saved in a file with extension .COL. The name of the colour scheme currently in force is displayed at the top right of the colours dialogue box: to select a new scheme, press the Open scheme button. This opens a file dialogue box, in which the scheme may be named. The Save scheme button saves the set of colours currently defined. The Merge scheme button opens an existing colour scheme and allows you to modify it further.

Click the OK button to close the dialogue box and save all changes. Click the Cancel button to leave without changing the colour scheme.

7.5 User preferences

Selecting Preferences from the View menu causes the User preferences dialogue box to be displayed.

This dialogue box is used to set the default behaviour of the SARA client. Changes made here affect all subsequent queries in this and following sessions, but not any currently displayed result set. In addition to changing the defaults for the way that results are displayed (as discussed above in section 6.4.3 ) you can reset

  • the maximum download length;
  • the maximum number of hits to be downloaded;
  • the address of the server to which the client will attempt to connect;
  • your personal password.

Pressing the Comms button displays the Communications dialogue box. To connect to a different server, you will need to know two numbers: the IP address of the computer concerned, and theport on which it listens for calls from a SARA client. Consult your local administrator for more information on these.

Pressing the Password button displays the Password dialogue box. To change your password, you must supply your current password, and type the new password twice. The new password will take effect from the next time you try to log in.

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