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Interface

TODO (Jack): full screenshot of the interface with the regions labelled.

TODO (Jack): version and show name.

Tool Bar

TODO (Jack): File, Edit, View and Help menus, and the icons on the right (LINK Mode, Output Config, Settings), as in the AAVJ docs.

Workspaces

DISPATCH has two workspaces, Cues and Timeline.

TODO (Jack): how to switch, and what stays the same between them.

The Scene Grid

The main area is a grid of tiles. Each tile is a scene.

TODO (Jack): screenshot of a page with grouped and ungrouped tiles.

Pages

TODO (Jack): adding, renaming, reordering and removing pages (removing asks whether to keep the cues). Each page is 72 × 40 cells, with an 8 × 8 home block in the middle where new scenes start.

TODO (Jack): zoom, pan, jumping back to the home block.

Tiles

  • Left-click a tile to Go.
  • Right-click a tile to select it and show its parameters.

TODO (Jack): moving tiles, renaming, moving to another page, removing.

Grouped and Ungrouped Tiles

  • Grouped tiles work like radio buttons: one scene per group is live, and pressing another tile in the group transitions to it.
  • Ungrouped tiles are toggles: on means the scene runs. Use these for scenes that output by themselves or send messages.

TODO (Jack): how the group colour shows on a tile, and how to assign a group.

Sections

TODO (Jack): named sections on a page, for laying out and labelling areas of tiles.

Macros

TODO (Jack): the Macros grid. Buttons and quads fire scenes like tiles; faders, knobs and rockers drive scene parameters; labels name an area. Binding a control to a scene or parameter.

Side Panels

Assets

TODO (Jack): browsing scenes and media, dragging them onto the grid to add a scene.

Parameters

The Parameters panel shows the custom parameters on the selected scene. Only parameters on the scene itself appear, not every operator inside it.

TODO (Jack): editing, expression mode, how to make a parameter show up here (see Building Scenes).

Outputs

TODO (Jack): link to Scenes & Outputs.

Log

TODO (Jack): the error log in the footer.