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The Gallery Console

The Gallery Console opens beside a Gallery, from the Main Console. You walk through the Gallery as a visitor does while you change it, and every change shows at once.

The Gallery Console's Settings tab beside a Gallery room hung with framed photographs

Finding Your Way Round the Console

Section titled “Finding Your Way Round the Console”
  • ← Main Console goes back to the Main Console, and Go to opens another of your Galleries.
  • Six tabs hold its settings: Settings, Space, Outside, Walls, Pieces, and Props.
  • « at the top tucks the Console away, and » brings it back.
  • Auto, the sun (Light) and the moon (Dark), beside its name, choose how the consoles look, as in the Main Console.
  • E opens and closes the Console from the keyboard.
Section titled “Pressing Things in the Gallery”

With the Console open, pressing something in the Gallery shows its settings, which glow for a moment:

  • A bare wall opens the Walls tab at that wall.
  • A piece walks to it and opens its settings on Pieces.
  • A prop opens its settings on Props. A chair in a room’s rows opens that room on Space, instead of sitting in it.
  • A wall label opens it on Props.
  • A logo opens its settings on Props.
  • A panel opens its entry under Panels on Props. On a gallery list, press anywhere but on a gallery’s row, such as its title; a row still goes to that gallery, and a drag still scrolls the list.

A wall, and a room’s closed door, always stand between you and what is behind them: a press never reaches a piece in another room.

Moving Pieces by Hand

Section titled “Moving Pieces by Hand”
  • Hold a piece to lift it, then press a gap on any wall to place it.
  • Shift + press selects several pieces; press a gap to place them all.
  • Esc cancels a move and puts the pieces back.
  • On a wall with rows, a piece goes into the row at the height where you let it go.

Saving and Publishing

Section titled “Saving and Publishing”

Changes are not kept until you save them.

  • Save keeps your changes. If the Gallery is published, Save also updates what visitors see.
  • Revert returns to what was last saved.
  • Publish opens the Gallery to visitors at its address, shown as Published at /yourname/gallery/. Publishing needs your agreement to the Content Agreement, and at least one piece on the walls.
  • Unpublish takes the Gallery away from visitors. Your arrangement and your pieces are kept, and Publish brings it back.

A published Gallery saved with no pieces left on its walls is unpublished; its address stays yours.