The Gate UI

The Gate UI allows you to access any of the four hidden panels in the workspace. The Gate UI resembles a compass; it has four gates that each correspond to one of the hidden panels. The gates are distributed along the four cardinal directions.

NoteThe Drop Gate is similar but it appears only when you drop a composition or a tool into a Player, Layer Editor, or Schematic view. See The Drop Gate for more infromation.

The four gates are as follows:

Gate:	Displays:
a) North gate	The Schematic overlay. This is a semi-transparent, larger view of the Schematic. You can set the transparency of the background and nodes in the overlay, in the Creative tab of the User Preferences.
b) East gate	Pick List, Tools, or Views tab (depends on the last chosen option). You can drop views onto viewports, add tools to compositions, and access the Pick List -- see Tools, Views & Pick List tabs.
c) South gate	View options for the view on which the cursor is currently paused. For example, if you access the Gate UI when the cursor is over a Player, the south gate will display the Player options.
d) West gate	The Composition Browser.

To access the Gate UI:

Press the tilde (~) key or middle-click your mouse. The Gate UI appears.
Swipe north, south, east or west. The panel associated with that gate appears.
To exit the panel. move the cursor away from the panel.

Note If you press the tilde (~) key, or middle-click and swipe simultaneously, the Gate UI is not displayed. If you press the Alt key while swiping, the panel will stay open until you press Esc.

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