Using the Lucid3 Player

The Lucid3 Player has four main panels, a button bar and a menu (note: the menu and button bar differ slightly between the Applet and Application Players; the Application Player is shown below)

The four main panels display lists or trees of features and entities:

Features Available panel

Features Chosen panel

Entities Remaining panel

Entities Discarded panel

Features Available shows the features and states in the key. An identification is performed by clicking on (and so ticking) score boxes alongside those states that match the specimen being identified.

In some keys, features and their states will be illustrated by images displayed next to the feature or state name. See the topic Multimedia in the Lucid3 Player for more information.

Features Available may display features arranged as a list or as a hierarchical tree. See the topic Trees and Lists in Lucid3 for more information.

Features Chosen shows the features and states that have been used to describe the specimen being identified.

When an identification is started this window will be empty; as features are progressively selected in Features Available, they are copied to Features Chosen for handy reference.

To unchoose a previously chosen state, click on (and so un-tick) its score box in Features Chosen.

Entities Remaining shows all entities that match the chosen features and states.

In some keys, entities will be illustrated by images and web pages displayed next to the entity name. In addition, a tab at the bottom of the Entities panels provides access to a gallery of images for all remaining entities. See the topic Multimedia in the Lucid3 Player for more information.

Entities Remaining may display features arranged as a ranked list or as a hierarchical tree. See the topic Trees and Lists in Lucid3  for more information. 

Entities Discarded shows all entities that do not match the chosen features and states.

The button bar and menu contains many options to help make an identification easier. See the topic The Lucid Player’s Menu and Button Bar for links to help on these.