The Window and Help menus
Every item in the last two menus: the Workspace submenu, every panel toggle in the order it appears, Lock Panels, and what each entry in Help opens.
Window and Help are the last two of the seven menus along the top. Window shows or hides every panel and holds the saved workspaces; Help links out to the documentation, your account, licence activation and the About dialog.
Workspace
The first item in Window is a Workspace submenu.
- General, Animation and Minimal: the three built-in layouts. General is the layout the app ships with; Animation also opens the Timeline, Graph Editor, Easing and Actions if they were closed; Minimal also closes Graph Editor, Easing, Variants, Actions, Swatches and Color.
- Any workspace you have saved yourself, listed below a separator. Click one to load it; right-click for a Delete option, which asks first and names the workspace.
- Save Workspace…: stores the current arrangement under a name you give it.
- Reset to Default: the same as loading General.
Panels
Below the Workspace submenu and a separator, Window lists every panel with a check mark beside the ones currently open. Clicking one shows or hides it: this is the only menu path to most panels, since few of them have a keyboard shortcut.
| Panel | Open by default |
|---|---|
| Tools | Yes |
| Tool Options | Yes |
| Timeline | Yes |
| Layers | Yes |
| Properties | Yes |
| Graph Editor | Yes |
| Easing | Yes |
| History | No |
| Color | Yes |
| Color Harmony | No |
| Swatches | Yes |
| Brushes | Yes |
| Brush Studio | No |
| Variants | Yes |
| Actions | Yes |
| Layer Effects | No |
| Library | No |
| Cells | No |
| Physics | No |
That is the order the menu lists them in, grouped by separators into panel families: Timeline and layer panels, then colour and brush panels, then Variants and Actions, then the rest.
Lock Panels
The last item, below its own separator, freezes the whole arrangement: with it on, no panel can be undocked, dropped somewhere new or split off. It is off by default. See Workspaces & panels for what it protects against.
Help
| Item | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Documentation | This manual, in your browser, at your interface language's section of the site if it has one, otherwise the English pages |
| Account | The Account dialog if you are signed in, or the sign-in dialog if you are not |
| Activate License… | The License Activation dialog. It is absent in Early Access, which ships as the Steam build, where owning the app on Steam is the licence |
| About | The About dialog: version number, the Early Access notice, and a link through to Third-Party Licenses |
Third-Party Licenses is one click further, from the link inside About. There is no update checker anywhere in the app: Celas Studio updates through Steam.