Getting Familiar with the Dialog Designer User Interface > Dialog Designer Workbench
	Dialog Designer Workbench

The Dialog Designer workbench was designed as a speech project perspective in Eclipse. The layout of the views and workspace are optimized to assist you in the creation of speech application projects.

The following descriptions provide an understanding of how the Eclipse environmental elements are arranged in Dialog Designer and why. However, as with any Eclipse perspective, the user is free to arrange perspective elements as desired, but if this occurs, the following view descriptions may no longer be applicable.

The following sections describe views available in the standard Dialog Designer speech perspective. See Dialog Designer Menu and Toolbar Options for details on menus and toolbar items.

Starting in the upper-left corner of the window and working left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the Dialog Designer speech perspective consists of the following major elements:

• Speech Navigator View

• Navigator View

• Editor View

• Outline View

• Avaya Application Simulator View (Tab)

• Problems View (Tab)

• Tasks View (Tab)

• Eclipse Properties View

• Console View

Most views or tab groups within the Eclipse perspective can be manipulated by right-clicking on a tab area (on top of the tab label), then selecting any of the available options. The options are:

• Fast View - Minimizes the selected tab view, which is accessible via a clickable icon in the lower right corner, for access at a "fast view" access at a later time.

• Detached - Allows the selected tab view to be detached from the Speech perspective, much in the same way that Move does.

• Restore - Restores the default settings of the selected tab view. Alternatively, select Window > Reset Perspective, which also returns the tab view settings to the default positions and sizes.

• Move - Allows the tab view, or complete tab group (if more than one) to be moved outside of the perspective (such as to the Desktop area outside the Eclipse window).

• Size - Adjusts the size of the panel border relative to the option selected. Only borders that can be adjusted, per the selected tab, are active options. Options are Left, Right, Top, Bottom. For example, in the Speech Navigator tab, to make the area wider, select Size > Right, and then drag the dark blue highlighted border to make the view wider.

• Minimize - Minimizes the size of the tab view selected.

• Maximize - Maximizes the size of the tab view selected.

• Close - Closes the tab view that is selected.

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