Speech Navigator View

Getting Familiar with the Dialog Designer User Interface > Dialog Designer Workbench > Speech Navigator View

	Speech Navigator View

The Speech Navigator view, the default Eclipse view when working with Dialog Designer, provides multiple hierarchical views of the resources in the Dialog Designer speech project.

Since the Eclipse Navigator View can get quite busy for application developers "explore" resources and code elements scattered across many different speech applications, Dialog Designer has developed this view navigator. The Speech Navigator helps application developers remain focussed while exploring and navigating across the code base.

This view can be accessed by selecting Window > Show View > Other... > Dialog Designer > Speech Navigator. A new hierarchical application view tab is displayed, showing all your applications. At the tabs toolbar area a number of icons that provide the following functionality:

- Show Projects. Similar to the Eclipse Navigator View, displays the physical structure.

- Show Easy Find. Shows all elements in your development environment, grouped by resource type (logical structure), and then grouped by the application name.

- Show Custom. Presents a hybrid view, by project, and under project, by resource type.

In the Speech Navigator, the developer can:

Drag and drop. For example, dropping a dbop file into the Call Flow Editor will create a data node with a database operation defined. Dropping a phrase onto a prompt item will create the phrase.

Launch exports (except for the "Show Easy Find" view).

Launch resource wizards. When a resource is selected in one of the views, the selection will persist even if the developer switches to another view.

Drill down to variables from all view types.

For any group of resources (grammars, phrases, phrasesets, prompts), the resource group can be expanded to show the actual resources of same type. When right clicking on a resource, and selecting Properties, a context-sensitive properties window (specific to the resource type) is displayed.

By clicking on the <down arrow>, and selecting Customize view (for the view that is displayed), the developer can further tune the view with a number of options.