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The Palette

Palette

The maquette provides a palette with navigation controllers, a player, and an evaluation command.

NOTE: Since version 6.15, the palette is embedded in all editors and is no more a floating window.

Icon Function Action
Zoom : click and drag the mouse over a zone of the maquette to zoom on it.
Hand : click and slip to reach a zone of the maquette without changing its scale.
Reset : select this tool to fit the content of the maquette to the window editor.
Segment : click and drag the mouse over a temporal segment to select it.
Pointer : allows the selection of boxes.

Player

Icon Function Action
Play : applies to the whole maquette.
Stop  
Pause  
Play selection : applies to a selected temporal segment, or selected boxes.
Loop : a switch on/off to associate with or to play an item, temporal chunk or a whole maquette repeatedly.

The Space key can be used as a “play / stop” command.

Evaluation

Evaluation : this command evaluates the whole content of the maquette.

Evaluation of Maquettes and Temporaboxes

Player Options

Each object can be played with one or several players.

To assign a player to an object :

  1. Ctrl / right click on a box

  2. choose Player .

To apply the same module to all the TemporalBoxes of a maquette, follow the same procedure from the maquette editor.

Detailed Presentation of Players

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