Menus

The Chant Developer Workbench IDE provides the following menus:

• File,
• Edit,
• View,
• Speech,
• Movement,
• Window, and
• Help.

File menu

The File menu provides functions for file management.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	New...	Ctrl+N	Creates an empty document of the file type selected.
	Open...	Ctrl+O	Opens an existing file for editing or opens a speech object enumerator.
	Start Page		Shows the start page window.
	Close		Closes the document. If you modified the contents of the document, you are prompted to save the changes.
	Save	Ctrl+S	Saves the current document to a file.
	Save As...		Saves the current document to a different file name and/or a different location on your computer or local network.
	Save All		Saves all open documents.
	Page Setup...		Sets margins, paper source, paper size, page orientation, and other layout options for printing the window contents.
	Print...	Ctrl+P	Prints the document contents.
	Recent Files		Lists the files you have most recently opened. To quickly reopen one of these files, select it.
	Exit		Closes Chant Developer Workbench after prompting you to save any unsaved files.

Edit menu

The Edit menu provides functions for document editing.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	Undo	Ctrl+Z	Reverses the last command or deletes the last entry you typed.
	Redo	Ctrl+Y	Reverses the action of the last Undo command.
	Cut	Ctrl+X	Removes the selected text from the window and moves it to the clipboard, replacing the clipboard's current contents.
	Copy	Ctrl+C	Copies the selected text from the window and moves it to the clipboard, replacing the clipboard's current contents.
	Paste	Ctrl+V	Inserts the contents of the Clipboard at the insertion point. If there is currently selected text, it is overwritten.
	Delete	Del	Permanently removes selected text from the window. Text is not placed on the Clipboard.
	Select All	Ctrl+A	Selects all the contents in the window.

	Find and Replace			Selects advanced document editing features.
		Quick Find	Ctrl+F	Finds the specified text within the current document.
		Quick Replace	Ctrl+H	Replaces specific text with different text within the current document.
		Find in Files	Ctrl+Shift+F	Finds the specified text across multiple documents.
		Replace in Files	Ctrl+Shift+H	Replaces specific text with different text across multiple documents.

GoTo...

Ctrl+G

Jumps to a specific line in the document.

	Advanced			Selects advanced document editing features.
		Format Document	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D	Adjusts line indentation for the entire document.
		Format Selection	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F	Adjusts line indentation for the selected line(s).
		Tabify Selected Lines		Converts spaces to tab characters for the selected line(s).
		Untabify Selected Lines		Converts tab characters to spaces for the selected line(s).
		Make Upper Case	Ctrl+Shift+U	Converts the current text select to upper case.
		Make Lower Case	Ctrl+U	Converts the current text select to lower case.
		Delete Horizontal Whitespace	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+\	Deletes whitespace characters from the current line(s).
		Word Wrap	Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W	Toggles word wrap for languages that support multi-line declarations.
		Incremental Search	Ctrl+I	Finds the next match in the search.
		Comment Selection	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C	Inserts comment characters to comment the current line for languages that support single line comments.
		Uncomment Selection	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U	Removes comment characters to uncomment the current line for languages that support single line comments.
		Increase Line Indent		Inserts tab for the selected line(s).
		Decrease Line Indent		Deletes tab for the selected line(s).

Bookmarks

Selects document bookmark options.

		Toggle Bookmark	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K	Bookmarks or un-bookmarks the current line in the document.
		Previous Bookmark	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P	Jumps to the previous bookmark.
		Next Bookmark	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N	Jumps to the next bookmark.
		Clear Bookmarks	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+L	Removes all bookmarks.

Outlining

Selects document outlining options.

	Toggle Outlining Expansion	Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M	Expands or collapses the current node in the outline.
	Toggle All Outlining	Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L	Expands or collapes all nodes in the document.
	Stop Outlining	Ctrl+M, Ctrl+P	Disables outlining and hides the visual cues.
	Start Automatic Outlining		Enabbles outlining and shows the visual cues.

View menu

The View menu provides functions for showing and hiding toolbars.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	Sensors		Shows the movement sensor browser.
	Speaker Profiles		Shows the speech recognition profiles browser.
	Speech Recognizers		Shows the speech recognizers browser.
	Speech Synthesizers		Shows the speech synthesizers browser.
	Error List		Shows the error list window.
	Events		Shows the events window.
	Find Results		Shows the find results window.
	Output		Shows the output window.

Toolbars

Shows or hide toolbars and customize displayed buttons.

	Movement		Shows or hide the Movement toolbar
	Speech		Shows or hide the Speech toolbar
	Standard		Shows or hide the Standard toolbar
	Text Editor		Shows or hide the Text Editor toolbar

Options...

Adjusts interactive environment settings.

Speech menu

The Speech menu provides functions specific to managing grammars, lexicons, profiles, recognizers, synthesizers, and TTS markup.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	Compile Grammar		Compiles the speech recognition grammar. Compiler messages are displayed in the Output window.
	Activate Grammar		Enables a compiled grammar for testing.
	Deactivate Grammar		Disables an activated grammar.
	Generate Phonemes		Generates phonemes for the text selection in the document.
	Edit Phonemes		Displays phoneme selection tool window for inserting phonemes directly into the document.
	Speak Phonemes		Synthesizes the selected phonemes.
	Start Speaking		Synthesizes the selected text or the entire document.
	Stop Speaking		Stops the audio playback of the synthesized speech.
	Pause Speakng		Pauses the audio playback of the synthesized speech.
	Resume Speaking		Resumes the paused audio playback of the synthesized speech.
	Validate VoiceXML		Validates a VoiceXML document. Compiler messages are displayed in the Output window.
	Run VoiceXML		Opens a session with the VoiceXML interpreter and executes the document.
	Stop VoiceXML		Stops the VoiceXML document execution and and closes the session with the interpreter.

Movement menu

The movement menu provides functions specific to managing movement sensors.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	Start Sensor		Starts capturing data from the movement sensor.
	Stop Sensor		Stops capturing data from the movement sensor.

Window menu

The Window menu provides functions for arranging document windows.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	Float		Undocks the selected MDI window or tool window in a floating container.
	Dock		Docks the floating container or auto-hidden tool window in its original location.
	Auto-Hide		Hides the tool window in the margin of the main window.
	Close		Closes the selected MDI window or hides the selected tool window. Use File or View menu to open MDI window. Use the View menu or Reset Window Layout to unhide the hidden tool window.
	New Horizontal Tab Group		Splits the document view into horizontal groups.
	New Vertical Tab Group		Splits the document view into vertical groups.
	Reset Window Layout		Applies the default window layout.
	WindowList		Lists the open document windows. Select the desired window to activate it and bring it into foreground view.

Help menu

The Help menu provides functions for displaying help information.

	Menu Item	Accelerator	Description
	View Help	Ctrl+F1	Opens the help file and selects the contents panel.
	Technical Support		Opens a browser on the Chant support web page.
	About Chant Developer Workbench		Displays the about dialog.