Accessing the Properties panel

Assets have a set of modifiable properties that define how they look and behave. These properties are listed in the Properties panel - accessible via any of four methods:

• Left clicking any item in the scene then
  • clicking the Properties icon in the upper right of Composer:
  • pressing the F4 button on your keyboard
  • pressing the icon - or pressing Ctrl+Q on your keyboard - to open the Quick Properties pop-up.
• Right-clicking any item in the scene and selecting the pop-up menu item Show properties.

Some properties are common to most assets while other properties are asset specific. See the dedicated asset pages for details about asset-specific properties.

Common Property Categories

General

The properties visible at the top of the Properties panel and in the Quick Properties pop-up minimally define the name, content and position of the selected asset in the current space.

• The Copy Painter tool, located at the very top of the panel. Select an asset in the active scene then click the left Copy Painter button. Now select a new asset in the scene and click the right Copy Painter button. You have just copied all common property values from the first item to the second.
• [Name] the identifier of the asset. This property is not labeled; it is represented by the editable text box just to the right of the asset icon. This identifier will appear in the Scene Structure panel.
• [Visibility] toggles whether or not the asset is visible. This property is not labeled; it is represented by the eye icon. Items that are not visible will not react to touch but can still respond to actions.
• [Asset Type] (for assets only) the media assigned to the asset. The label for this property matches the asset type. Possible values will be those found in the Content Library.
• X the X coordinate of the center point of the asset
• Y the Y coordinate of the center point of the asset
• W the width of the asset
• H the height of the asset
• the rotation of the asset

NOTE: Position, size and orientation can also be modified through direct manipulation of an asset within the scene. Options include:

• dragging the asset to a new location
• dragging any of the square handles along the selected asset bounding box to change the dimensions of the asset
• dragging the round handle on the edge of the selected asset bounding box to rotate the asset.

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Appearance

Most Appearance properties are asset specific so be sure to refer to the dedicated article for each asset.

• Fill Behavior
  Only available for the Image asset, Video asset, Webcam asset, the Image Button and a scene background when set to an image or video.
  • Fill behavior specify how you want the content to be displayed within its container. You have three choices.
    • Fit: The container will always display the entire content, no matter how the container is resized.
      
    • Fill: The content will be resized so it fills the entire container. When resized, the content will be cut off along one axis if necessary.
      
    • Deform: The content is forced to match the pixel width and length of the container. The result can deform the content.
      
• Effects
  • Opacity: sets the level of transparency for this asset on a scale of 0 (invisible) to 1 (opaque)
  • Effects: a set of appearance options impacting the color and clarity of the asset
    • Blur: sets clarity on a scale of 0 (no blur) to 100 (completely blurred)
    • Grayscale forces color shift into gray tones on a scale from 0 (no shift at all) to 100 (complete shift into gray spectrum)
    • Sepia forces color shift into sepia tones on a scale from 0 (no shift at all) to 100 (complete shift into sepia spectrum)
    • Hue rotation Applies a hue rotation to the input image. The passed parameter defines the number of degrees around the color circle the input samples will be incremented. Values of 0 and 360 are equivalent - they leave the input unchanged.
    • Brightness Applies a linear multiplier to the input image, making it appear more or less bright. A value of 0 will create an image that is completely black. A value of 100 leaves the input unchanged. Other values are linear multipliers on the effect; the larger the number, the brighter the results. At a value of 1000, all colors (other than black) appear white.

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Behavior

Behavior properties are asset-specific, be sure to refer to their corresponding Help Center articles.

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Container Behavior

Container Behavior properties configure the bounding box within which the asset media is displayed. Here are their properties:

• Container identifies the type of container. There are three possible values.
  • Static: the user cannot move the asset. This is the default state of an asset.
  • Free: the user can move/resize/rotate the asset but cannot pin it in a fixed position
  • Pinnable: the user can toggle between the Free and Static states
• If the Container property is set to Static, one additional property is revealed:
  • Visible to interactivity toggles whether or not this asset will respond to touch. If deselected, assets and containers below it can respond to touch.
• If the Container property is set to Free or Pinnable, additional properties are revealed:
  • Initial view
    • Initial view state choose whether the asset should initial appear in its normal, minimized or maximized state.
  • Display buttons
    • Show maximize button adds a maximize button to the asset container
    • Show minimize button adds a minimize button to the asset container
    • Show close button adds a close button to the asset container
  • Display buttons style if any of the Display buttons are turned on, a set of Display button style options are revealed
    • Use experience style toggle whether this asset should adopt the preset project style. If unchecked, the following properties appear:
      • Fill color color surrounding image assigned to the button
      • Outline color color along the edge of the region containing the image assigned to the button
      • Pressed color fill color when the button is touched
        • Checked color alternative color to fill color if the button represents two possible states
    • Radius curvature of edge surrounding region containing the button. Can have value from 0 to 20. Set to 0 for a square, set to 20 for a perfect circle.
      • Flat toggles whether or not the buttons should look flat or have a sense of depth
      • Shadow toggles whether or not the buttons should have a shadow
      • [Icons] images to use for various states of each Display button
        • Maximize / Unmaximize
        • Minimize
        • Close
  • Constraints constraints determine the extent to which an asset can be manipulated
    • Allow move check if asset container can be moved
    • Move direction specify in which direction the item can be moved. This property is only visible if Allow move is enabled.
    • Allow rotate permit the user to rotate the asset through 360 degrees
    • Allow resize permit the user to resize the asset using two or more fingers
    • Minimum width sets minimum possible width in pixels to which an asset container can be resized
    • Minimum height sets minimum possible height in pixels to which the asset container can be resized
    • Maximum width sets maximum possible width in pixels to which an asset container can be resized
    • Maximum height sets maximum possible height in pixels to which an asset container can be resized
  • Minimize behavior configure and constrain how minimize will work
    • Minimized image select the image to display when this asset is minimized. If no image is specified, the following image is used:
    • Minimized pressed image select the image to display when the Minimized image is pressed. If no image is specified, the Minimized image will be used.
    • Allow move when minimized check if the Minimized image can be moved
    • Minimized position specify where to put the Minimized image
      • Minimize to current position minimize to last location of the asset when in a Normal state
      • Minimize to initial position minimize to last location of the Minimized image
    • Minimized width width in pixels of the Minimized image
    • Minimized height height in pixels of the Minimized image
    • Minimized orientation rotation in degrees of the Minimized image

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Tools

The Image, Video, Document and Audio assets share these Tools properties:

• Sharing tool
  • Show sharing button check if this asset can be added to the sharing queue
    • Asset sharing options: as email attachment, to USB memory key or to local filesystem.
  • Tools buttons style: if Show sharing button is checked, the Use experience style property appears
    • Use experience style toggle whether this asset should adopt the preset project style. If unchecked, the following properties appear:
      • Fill color color surrounding image assigned to the button
      • Outline color color along the edge of the region containing the image assigned to the button
      • Pressed color fill color when the button is touched
      • Checked color alternative color to fill color if the button represents two possible states
      • Radius curvature of edge surrounding region containing the button. Can have value from 0 to 20. Set to 0 for a square, set to 20 for a perfect circle.
      • Flat toggles whether or not the buttons should look flat or have a sense of depth
      • Shadow toggles whether or not the buttons should have a shadow
      • Sharing / Selected sharing images to use when the asset could be added to the sharing queue ("sharing") or is already added to the sharing queue ("selected sharing")

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