Grass Valley Xpanel Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 23)

Xpanel User Manual 2-13
Getting started with Xpanel
Auto-hidden and pinned views
By default, docked views are pinned to their location, meaning that appear when opened
and stay displayed until they are closed. Clicking the A
UTO -H IDE button in the view’s title
bar changes the view’s state from pinned to auto-hidden, which automatically hides the view
on the side leaving only a tab. The view is not closed, just hidden. To make the view re-
appear, simply hover the mouse pointer over the view’s tab and click within the view. Each
time you click outside of the view however, the view automatically hides.
To change the view from auto-hidden to pinned, simply click A UTO -H IDE button again.
Zooming in/out of the canvas
Whether Xpanel is in Design mode or Production mode, you may want to see a panel’s
objects in greater detail by zooming in on the canvas. Similarly, you can get an expanded
or distanced view of the canvas by zooming out of the canvas.
There are several methods for zooming in or out of the canvas:
Mouse wheel
• Click anywhere on the canvas and roll the mouse wheel forward to zoom in
or roll the mouse wheel backward to zoom out.
Alt key sequence
• Hold down the ALT key and the right mouse button, then drag a rectangle
around the specific area that you want to zoom in on.
Home key / Spacebar
• Press the H OME key or spacebar on your keyboard to completely fit the canvas within
the Xpanel’s current workspace’s frame.
Panning across the canvas
When you zoom in on a portion of the canvas, you may not see certain areas of the canvas.
Rather than zooming out and sacrificing the current zoomed view, you can maintain the
zoom scale by panning across the canvas to the area that was otherwise outside of the
window’s display.
To pan across the canvas:
Holding down the ALT key and press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the canvas
toward the desired location.