2.1. Sophie's interface
There are three main parts of the Sophie interface: the book desktop, the left flap, and the right flap. The book desktop is the gray area in the center of the Sophie window. The Sophie interface looks like this:
Flaps are the things that stick out on the left and right side of the Sophie window; you can adjust the size of the flaps by dragging the margins back and forth. Each flap has several tabs in it, which can be selected by clicking the tab name. Most tabs contain more than one palette. Palettes can be lists of things used in Sophie (like all the movies in a book) or tools (like the spellchecker). There’s also a bottom flap, which isn't in this release of Sophie. The content of flaps, tabs, and palettes can be hidden by clicking the title of the flap, tab, or palette.
The Book Desktop button at the top left corner of the book desktop will minimize all open books and show the book desktop behind them. A button will appear next to the Book Desktop button for every book that is open in Sophie; in this screenshot, "New Book A" is open, though it's not visible.
Sophie has menu bars, but they’re not used as often as the flaps or halos and HUDs.
Most elements of Sophie's interface have tool tips: if you leave your mouse over something, text will appear to tell you what it is called and possibly what it does.
This release of Sophie introduces skinning: if you select one of the entries under the Skins entry in the menu bars, you can give Sophie a different look and feel.
