The Project Window is the layout area where you design the circuit and the surface of your devices.

The Project Window provides two different 'Views' - Circuit View and Surface View. The current 'View' is indicated by the buttons in the upper right corner of the Project Window. You can dongle between the 'Views' by pressing on the buttons or with the shortcuts F7 ('Circuit View') and F8 ('Surface View').

In Circuit View the circuit is displayed - the operating network of your device. This is where you make connections from one module to another to route Audio, MIDI and control streams. This is like you already know the Project Window and what you can see in the picture above.

In Surface View you design the user interface for the devices. There is a decoupling of circuits and surfaces so that you can really concentrate on designing the interface without having to handle all the circuit nodes in the same window, too.

When the Project Window is set to Surface View only surface elements are visible. A ViewID can be assigned to every module in the GO Attributes window. If the ViewID is set to 'Surface' the module is only visible in Surface View. If the ViewID is set to 'Circuit' the module is only visible in Circuit View.

Is an element the same as an module? A module which has his ViewID set to 'Surface' (a surface module) can also have a circuit representation which is visible in Circuit View. Therefore 'surface element' only means the parts of a module which are visible on the panel.
A (circuit) module does not have a representation on a panel but routings etc. are also circuit elements but no modules. So also for circuits there is a slight difference between elements and modules.

For both 'Views' there are the three known operating modes - Edit (Ctrl-E), Move (Ctrl-M) and Use (Ctrl-U) mode. The three buttons in the upper left corner of the Project Window indicate which mode is currently active. You can also switch between the modes by using these buttons.

The commands that were formerly in the 'Edit' drop down menu of Scope's menu bar can now be found as command buttons in each Project Window.

In the titlebar of the Project Window the name of the current project is displayed.
The bottom line indicates the location of the current view - in which module you are actually operating.

As there are two Project Windows you can use one for circuit editing and the other for surface editing at the same time. This way there is no need to switch views or to no situation where you can only see the surface or the circuit.

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