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2.3. Flaps, tabs, and palettes
The flaps hold most of Sophie’s functionality that you can’t get at through the halos and HUDs. Each flap has tabs in it; each tab has palettes. You can switch tabs by clicking on the tab name. By dragging the edges, you can change how big the tabs and palettes are. This diagram shows where the flaps, tabs, and palettes are in Sophie's interface:
The left flap is generally concerned with the structure of your book.
The right flap generally contains content that can be used to make books.
The left flap
The left flap has tabs called Timelines, Books, Pages, and Tools. None of these tabs do anything.
The right flap
The right flap has tabs called Library, Resources, and Styles. The Library tab has palettes called Frames and Book Templates. None of these tabs and palettes do anything.
Working with flaps
If you drag the innermost edge (the right edge of the left flap, or the left edge of the right flap), you can change the width of the flap. This may resize the book desktop and the other flap. A flap has two buttons in its upper right corner:
The minimize button hides the flap. When the left flap is minimized, it looks like this:
Double-click the title of the flap to unminimize it.
The other button is the detach button. Clicking this detaches the flap so that it becomes its own window:
Click the attach button in the upper right to re-attach the flap to where it was before.
Working with tabs
Working with palettes
Palettes (and tabs) can also be dragged out to become free-standing windows: drag the title bar of the palette into the Sophie workspace. It will gain a red outline; you can position it where you want in the Sophie workspace by dragging its title bar. If you click the X in the upper-right corner of a detached palette, the palette will also be returned to the original tab that appeared in. Or you can drag the palette over a tab and drop it if you want to put it back; palettes don’t necessarily need to go back into their original tabs, and you can rearrange Sophie’s interface as you like.
Some palettes (the books palette in the books tab; the page templates palette in the components tab; and the text, images, audio, and video palettes in the resources tab)) have a little magnifying glass in the upper right corner. If you click the magnifying glass, you can filter the listings in the tab. A search field will appear directly below the title bar of the palette; if you type in a string of text and press RETURN, only the resources in the palette that include that text in their name will be shown. To return to the full listing, delete the search text and press RETURN again or click the X at the right of the field.
