Canvas Viewport

Toolbar

Each viewport in PanelForge provides a specialised toolbar with a range of interface items to quickly manipulate how and what is shown in viewport.

This toolbar is divided into the following sections:

Undo

An 'Undo and Redo' button for the fast ability to toggle between document states. This functionality can also be accessed from the File Menu with corresponding Keyboard Shortcuts.

Brush

A series of six 'Quick Brush Preset' setting buttons that when clicked will adjust the canvas Paint Brush or Eraser tool settings to the predefined state.

These presets can be replaced by dragging a preset from the Brush Presets Palette Window. Double clicking an item will display an input to adjust the text label.

The default 'Quick Brush Preset' are the following:

S1: Fine width sketching pen.
S2: Medium width sketching pen.
C1: Small width colouring pen.
C2: Medium width colouring pen.
F1: Medium width filling pen (draws behind previous pen stokes on current layer).
F2: Large width filling pen (draws behind previous pen stokes on current layer).

Colour

Current Canvas Tool Colour

A large colour square showing the current colour to be used by Canvas Tools such as the ‘Paint Brush’. Clicking on the colour square will show the Operating System’s colour picker. The colour square can also be dragged with the mouse cursor to the ‘Quick Colour’ swatches and the swatches areas in the Colour Swatches palette.

Quick Colours

The current tool colour can be set by clicking on any of the swatches in this area. The swatches can be reorders by click and dragging any of the eight searches to another swatch. Any of the eight quick colour swatches can be replaced by a colour swatch being dragged from the main colour swatches area or the current tool colour well in the canvas toolbar. Any of the colour swatches can be also edited by double clicking on the swatch to display the colour swatch editing dialog window.

Rotate

Contains controls to adjust the rotation of the Canvas view allowing more natural interaction with Canvas Tools.

A slider provides a fluid way to adjust the rotation from -180 to 180 degrees.
Editable numeric input of the canvas rotation.
A button to reset the canvas rotation to zero degrees.

Zoom

Contains controls to adjust the Zoom of the Canvas view allowing more natural interaction with Canvas Tools. Zoom is represented as a percentage where 100% is the actual pixel resolution of the Canvas matched to the screen pixels (HiDpi/Retina screens have multiple physical pixels per screen pixel).

Slider provides a fluid way to adjust the Zoom from 2% to 700% using a nonlinear scale.
Editable numeric input of the canvas Zoom.
Button to Zoom Out of the canvas in nonlinear intervals.
Button to Zoom In of the canvas in nonlinear intervals.
Button activate the ‘Fit Canvas to Viewport’ Zoom mode.

Workspace

Contains controls to switch the Workspace layout. These controls are present in all workspaces.

Popup Menu to select between the available workspaces. Last menu entry ‘Reset Default Workspaces’ will reset the default ‘Canvas Workspace’ and ’Stage Workspace’.
Button to switch between the current and previous workspace.