About the Menu Bar			Gate UI and Drop Gates
Chapter 5, Getting Familiar with Your Workspace

The taskbar anchors the user interface and gives you immediate and persistent access to frequently-used core features and commands, such presets, undo, warning messages, as well as the current composition, version, project, and user. The taskbar is located at the bottom of the desktop.

• Press Ctrl + T.

The following describes each element in the taskbar, from left to right:

Click:	To:
	Display the Preset list. You can choose from preconfigured presets or create your own.
	Select a different layout for the current preset. Click the icon and select a layout.
	Undo or redo an operation. Click the arrow icon to undo the last operation in the list, or click the text beside the arrow to display the list of operations performed. The arrow that appears in the list indicates your current position in the undo list; all operations above it are operations you can undo, and all operations below are ones you can redo. In the User Preferences window (General tab), you can specify the number of undo levels.
	View messages. When messages are issued, the icon color reflects the severity: white, yellow, or red. Click the message area to display a list of messages received to date. In the User Preferences window (General tab), you can specify the type of messages that are displayed and the maximum number of items in the User Preferences.
	Start the render queue monitor or view the progress of a render. Click the icon to start the render queue monitor. Click the number and select a background rendering task from the list that appears; the number indicates how many render tasks in the list are currently in progress. The progress bar to the right of the render task name in the list shows the task's progress: a blue bar is displayed as the task progresses and is completed successfully. A gray bar is displayed if the render task failed or was cancelled (the text "failed" is also displayed if a failure occurs). To remove a failed or completed render task from the list, select it, and then respond to the prompt for removal. To cancel a task that is in progress, select it, and then respond to the prompt for cancellation. To delete a task in progress, first cancel it, and then delete it.
	Display the list of compositions that are currently open. The name of the current composition is displayed beside the icon. To switch to a composition you select it from the list.
	Display the list of versions of the composition you currently have open. A gray icon represents a read-write version while a yellow icon represents a read-only version.
	Open the Project Preferences window. The current project name is displayed beside the icon.
	Open the User Preferences window. The user name is displayed beside the icon.