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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 Config, Books, Pages, Tools, Timelines, and Servers.
The config tab
The config tab contains two palettes: Plugins and Plugin Information. The first lists all the plugins currently installed in Sophie; if you select one, Plugin Information will explain what that plugin does. A plugin-based structure allows Sophie to be expanded in the future.
The books tab
The books tabs contains two palettes, Open Books and Embedded Books. Open Books lists all books open in the current Sophie session; Embedded Books lists all embedded books that are resources of the currently selected book.
The pages tab
The pages tab is currently non-functional. In the future, this will display thumbnails of all pages of the current Sophie book.
The tools tab
The tools tab currently holds a non-functional Search palette.
The Timeslines tab
The timelines tab is not currently functional.
The Servers tab
The right flap
The right flap has tabs called Library, Styles, Annotations, Resources, and Changes.
The library tab
The library tab contains three palettes: Frame Templates, Page Templates, and Book Templates. The frame templates palette lists all saved frame templates in the current book; the page templates palette lists all saved page templates. The book templates palette lists all currently installed book templates. While these palettes reflect changes made by the author, they are not presently interactive.
The styles tab
The styles tab is currently non-functional.
The annotations tab
The Annotations tab contains the All Annotations, Stickies, and Book Extras palettes. The All Annotations palette is for the creation and management of annotation sets which can be exported from Sophie. The Stickies palette allows the creation of new sticky notes on the current page of the book. The Book Extras palette allows annotations to be moved into the book's resources.
The resources tab
The Resources tab lists all the resources in the selected book. There are two palettes, titled Resources and Detail View. Resources lists all resources in the current book; they can be filtered by media type, or you can see all by choosing Clear Filters. Detail View shows information on the resource currently selected in the Resources palette.
The changes tab
The changes tab, which contains a single palette, lists all actions that have been performed in Sophie. At this stage in development, this is only useful to developers.
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:
You can do the same thing by dragging the flap's title bar somewhere else in Sophie. Click the attach button in the upper right to re-attach the flap to where it was before.
Working with tabs
Tabs behave like flaps. Next to each tab's title is an X icon; this doesn't function right now. If you drag a tab out by its title, it becomes detached:
Click the attach button in the upper right to re-attach the tab to where it was before.
Working with palettes
Palettes work much like flaps. A palette has two buttons in its upper right corner:
The minimize button hides the palette. Minimized palettes look exactly like minimized flaps:
Double-click the title of a minimized palette or flap to unminimize it.
The other button is the detach button. Clicking this detaches the palette so that it becomes its own window:
You can do the same thing by dragging the palette's title bar somewhere else in Sophie. Click the attach button in the upper right to re-attach the palette where it was before.
