Using Compere Layouts

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Using Compere Layouts

The Compere user interface is completely flexible. Panels can be resized, docked and nested however you want, or detached and floating, to work on multiple screens. They are docked in rows, columns or tabs (layered). Any item can be a docking space for others.

Any element of the Layout can be resized. When the whole space is resized, assembly panels (those with a grid) resize proportionately, whilst other panels do not. When more than one panel is in a row or column, they resize together.

Elements are positioned by dragging their title tabs.

Click and drag a panel boundary to resize it.

Click and drag a panel title to rearrange it. Dragging will bring up a cross pattern of white squares. As you drag across the screen, this pattern will relate to the vertical divisions of the default docked Compere Layout. Panels can be arranged horizontally or vertically in these zones, or layered (centre square). As the panel title is dragged over the pattern, the squares light up, and where the panel will be is highlighted. Drag free of the squares (no highlight) to float a panel. Here the Resources panel is being moved to dock below on the-left:

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Any panel can be closed, and redisplayed from the Panels menu item. If any panel is duplicated, these are just multiple instances, but can display different areas of the panel simultaneously. For example you may want to see different parts of a complex Project next to each other, or fill a separate display screen with a single assembly panel.

Menu Panels > Reset UI will restore the default fully-docked arrangement of panels to the default Layout relevant to either Juggler or to Visualise View.

To save your own Layout to use again, use the top right toolbar:

toolbar-save-layout

Assembly panel grids can be dragged around to reposition the view, and zoomed with the mouse wheel. The Visualise assembly panel grid operates in a 3D space and can be rotated about 3 axes.

General

To add items from a Resource panel, drag them into assembly panels or onto items already there.

To remove items from assembly panels, right-click and select ‘Remove’. Note that ‘Remove’ is not ‘Delete’, and that removing leaves configuration of properties intact. Deletion from the Project panel also deletes properties.

To edit the properties of any resource, first select it in the Project panel to list its properties in the Properties panel.

To delete a link in the Juggler Nodes assembly panel, select an end point of the node and press Delete.

Assembly panels have their own toolbars, and right-clicking between and on items will raise a context-specific menu.

Page edited [d/m/y]: 26/09/2022