Tab Navigation & Views

Exaplay 3 has two levels of tab navigation: the main view tabs in the header bar and the sub-header tabs inside the Main Editor view.

Main View Tabs (Header)

The header bar contains the tabs that switch the entire page:

Tab	Purpose	Visibility
STAGE	Screens, the fields on them, and the outputs they are mapped to	Hidden in Easy Mode
PRODUCE & PLAY	Full composition editor — programming and design	Always
CONTROL	Operator control view — show running	Hidden in Control Buddy mode
NETWORK	Networked Exaplay instances — discovery, sync, and multi-client management	Hidden in Client Mode and in Easy Mode

The four tabs switch views inside the one page at http://<engine-ip>:8123/; the URL does not change, and the page opens on the view chosen under Settings → Startup → Start Exaplay with (the Stage by default). Separate addresses exist only for the standalone pages: /control (the operator panel without the editor), /user (User Panels) and /monitor.

Warp, edge blend and VIOSO calibration are set up per screen inside the STAGE view. See The Stage and Projection Mapping & Warp/Blend.

The active tab is highlighted with the primary accent colour and a glowing underline.

Visibility Rules

Not every machine shows the same top-level tabs:

• Client Mode hides the NETWORK tab, and the machine becomes read-only for show editing
• Control Buddy Mode hides the embedded CONTROL tab from the main editor shell
• Easy Mode hides both STAGE and NETWORK, leaving PRODUCE & PLAY and CONTROL. It also trims advanced controls inside the views that remain (clip buffers, media info, custom controls, TCP devices) and relabels some tabs. It has no switch in the Settings window: ui.easy-mode is set in the machine's config_system.json, normally as part of a turnkey install

Sub-Header Tabs (Inside PRODUCE & PLAY)

When you are in the PRODUCE & PLAY view, the sub-header below the header shows the composition tabs. Each composition is either a Timeline or a Playlist:

Composition type	What it shows
Timeline	Clip arrangement across tracks and time
Playlist	List of discrete show cues

Click any composition tab to switch to that composition's editor. The Media & Live panel sits at the bottom of the editor, below the active Timeline or Playlist.

Control View Tabs

Inside the Operator Control view (/control) a horizontal tab bar provides access to:

Tab	Purpose
Playback Overview	Every composition with its transport, opacity, volume and its cues or media items — see Control View
Custom Controls	Parameters pinned from the scene tree	Hidden in Easy Mode
TCP Devices	PJLink projectors and generic TCP device control	Hidden in Easy Mode
Scheduler	Time-based automatic scheduling	Schedule in Easy Mode
User Panels	Build and manage end-user panels	Custom Panels in Easy Mode
Inputs	Touch, controllers, sensors and trackers as a tree, and what each one triggers — see Inputs
Monitor	The network traffic and timecode the engine receives — see Monitor
Integrations	Everything that ships for other systems (Stream Deck, Q-SYS, Crestron …), with Download and set-up steps — see Control View
System	This machine (address, role, version, show file), its load, and Restart system / Shut down system

Stage View

The STAGE view is one surface — a canvas, an inspector and a content browser.

Part	Purpose
Canvas	One zoomable workspace: the working tree. At the start every screen sits side by side as a card with its fields; the arrow under a screen opens it, with its outputs under it and the PCs they are plugged into at the bottom. Outputs are assigned by dragging them onto a screen. Zoom and Fit sit on the canvas, top right.
Inspector	The settings of whatever is selected — a screen, a field, an output or a PC. With nothing selected, an overview of every screen and the outputs that feed it.
Content browser	Produce & Play's file browser, folded under the canvas. Drag a file, live feed or generator onto a field and it plays there.

The header carries ? (a legend), Tidy up, Preview, Outlines, Identify and Raw wall. See The Stage for the full tour.

Network View

The NETWORK view shows all Exaplay instances discovered on the local network. See Multi-Client Setup for a full guide.

Key features:

• Systems list — auto-discovered remote Exaplay instances with UP/DOWN status
• Copy Files — copy the sync folder contents and the current project to all online clients (streamed, resumable transfers)
• Per-remote status — see the outcome of the last Copy Files run (syncing, ok, error) for each machine

User View Tabs

The User View (/user) shows one User Panel full-screen — the first one, or the one its readable URL names — with no tab strip. Operators move between pages only through the panel's Page Jump buttons; the page list appears only in the Panel Designer.

If no panels have been configured, the User View reads No Custom Panels.

Direct panel links can also open a single panel immediately using its readable URL, for example:

http://<engine-ip>:8123/main-stage-controls_panel.htm