4. Discovering the editor interface
The metaScore editor is organized into five large areas:
Menu Bar: allows you to
![menu bar](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Interface_EN_OK-01.png)
Browser: includes three tabs providing access to the various elements you can insert into the application.
![browser](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Interface_EN_OK-02.png)
Editing Window: displays your application. In it you can directly select blocks, elements or images.
![editing window](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Interface_EN_OK-03.png)
Timeline: allows you to browse through the media file, modify when pages, elements and images appear and disappear in time, and manage multiple scenarios.
![Timeline](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Interface_EN-04.png)
Attribute Window: displays a group of modifiable parameters depending on the block, element or image selected.
![Attribute window](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Interface_EN-05.png)
Right-Clicking: you can access a dropdown menu by right-clicking in the workspace. If you click outside of a block, you access the following menu:
![right-clicking](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Clic%20droit1_hors%20bloc_EN.png)
If you click on an element inside a block, you access three sub-menus corresponding to the three types of components (see the “Components” page).
Note: If you click on a block’s upper strip, you access only the last two sub-menus.
By right-clicking, you access some functions that can be found elsewhere in the interface, and others available only there, such as:
- Copy-and-paste function for a block or element:
- right-click on the block or element for the “Copy” function;
- right-click outside of a block for the “Block/Paste block” function, or right-click inside a block but outside an element for “Element/Paste elements.”
- The “Select All” function for blocks or elements: to find out more, see the “Component Multiselection” page.
- Deleting a component (an element, page, or block).
- Adding pages before the one displayed (when you create a page by dragging and dropping it from the navigator, it is always placed after).
Note: for a synchronized block, this function is accessible if you are not at the very beginning of a page’s time. The newly-created page will be positioned between the previous and current page. - Arrangement of blocks or elements: lets you manage the display of blocks or overlapping elements.
- “Foreground” and “Background” let you attribute either the first or last place in the arrangement of blocks or elements.
- “Forward” and “Backward” let you modify the arrangement of blocks or elements more gradually.
![right-clicking element](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Clic%20droit2_bloc%20e%CC%81le%CC%81ment_EN.png)
![right-clicking page](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Clic%20droit3_bloc%20page_EN.png)
![right-clicking block](/sites/default/files/uploads/inline-images/Clic%20droit4_bloc%20bloc_EN.png)
To enlarge your working space
You can either modify the zoom percentage for the workspace from the menu bar, or hide the navigator, timeline, or attributes window by double-clicking on the thin bars that separate them from the editing window. Do the same to make them reappear.
Note: modifying the display size only affects your view in the editor, not the size in the published application.