Workspace tour

Becoming familiar with the terminology and workspace of Corel R.A.V.E. will help you easily follow this user guide’s concepts and procedures.

In this section, you’ll learn about

•Corel R.A.V.E. terminology and concepts

•Corel R.A.V.E. application window

•Corel R.A.V.E. toolbox

Corel R.A.V.E. terminology and concepts

Before you get started with Corel R.A.V.E., you should be familiar with the following terms.

Term	Description
object	An element in a drawing such as an image,
	shape, line, curve, symbol, text, or layer
movie	An animation project you create in
	Corel R.A.V.E. A movie consists of a
	succession of frames.
frame	One image in a series of images that make
	up a movie. A movie frame can contain one
	or more objects.
stage	The area in which you add objects to a
	movie, compose the contents of individual
	frames, and preview animation
docker	A window containing available commands
	and settings relevant to a specific tool or task
flyout	A button that opens a group of related tools
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Term	Description
thumbnail	A small, low-resolution representation of an
	image
artistic text	A type of text to which you can apply special
	effects, such as shadows
paragraph text	A type of text to which you can apply
	formatting options, and which can be edited
	in large blocks

Corel R.A.V.E. application window

When you launch Corel R.A.V.E., the application window opens containing a drawing window. The rectangle in the center of the drawing window is the stage where you create your movie. Although more than one drawing window can be opened, you can apply commands to the active drawing window only.

Title bar

Menu bar

Property bar

Toolbar

Docker

Toolbox
Stage
Drawing				Color
window
				palette
Movie
playback
controls
	Timeline docker		Status bar	Navigator

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The application window contains the following main parts:

Part	Description
Menu bar	The area containing pull-down menu
	options
Property bar	A detachable bar that changes depending on
	the tool or task. For example, when the text
	tool is active, the property bar displays
	commands that create and edit text.
Toolbar	A detachable bar that contains shortcuts to
	menu and other commands
Title bar	The area displaying the title of the currently
	open movie
Rulers	Horizontal and vertical borders that are used
	to determine the size and position of objects
	in a movie
Toolbox	A dockable bar with tools for creating,
	filling, and modifying objects in the movie
Drawing window	The area outside the stage bordered by the
	scroll bars and application controls
Stage	The rectangular area inside the drawing
	window in which you add objects to a movie,
	compose the contents of individual frames,
	and preview animation
Color palette	A dockable bar that contains color swatches
Docker	A window containing available commands
	and settings relevant to a specific tool or task
Status bar	An area at the bottom of the application
	window that contains information about
	object properties such as type, size, color, fill,
	and resolution. The status bar also shows the
	current mouse position.

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Part	Description
Navigator	The small, square button at the bottom-
	right corner that opens a smaller display to
	help you move around in the drawing
	window
Movie playback controls	The area at the bottom left of the drawing
	window that contains controls for playing
	movies
Timeline docker	The window displaying the timeline of all
	objects in a movie. This is where you
	animate, organize, and coordinate objects in
	a movie.

By default, the rulers are not displayed. To toggle between displaying and hiding the rulers, see “To display or hide the rulers” on page 1.

By default, the status bar is not displayed. To toggle between displaying and hiding the status bar, click Window ` Toolbars ` Status bar.

Corel R.A.V.E. toolbox

Many application commands are accessible through the toolbox. You can also access application commands from the menu bar, toolbars, property bar, and dockers. The toolbox can be opened, closed, and moved around your screen at any time. For information about the menu bar, toolbars, property bar, and dockers, see

“Corel R.A.V.E. workspace tools” in the Help.

You can customize many of these workspace tools to suit your needs. For more information, see “Customizing your application” in the Help.

Flyouts open to display a set of related Corel R.A.V.E. tools. A small arrow in the bottom right corner of a toolbox button indicates a flyout: for example, the Shape edit flyout . Clicking a flyout arrow opens a set of related tools. Clicking the grab handles at the left end of the flyout and dragging the flyout away from the toolbox sets the flyout in its expanded form.

The following table provides descriptions of the flyouts and tools in the Corel R.A.V.E. toolbox.

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Flyouts

Flyout		Description
Zoom		Lets you access the Zoom and Hand tools
Curve		Lets you access the Freehand, Bézier, Artistic
		media, 3-point curve, Polyline, and Pen tools
Rectangle		Lets you access the Rectangle and 3-point
		rectangle tools
Ellipse		Lets you access the Ellipse and 3-point ellipse
		tools
Shape edit		Lets you access the Shape, Knife, Eraser,
		Smudge brush, Roughen brush, and Virtual
		segment delete tools
Object		Lets you access the Polygon, Spiral, and
		Graph paper tools
Perfect Shapes		Lets you access the Basic shapes, Arrow
		shapes, Flowchart shapes, Star shapes, and
		Callout shapes tools
Interactive tools		Lets you access the Interactive blend,
		Interactive contour, Interactive distortion,
		Interactive envelope, Interactive extrude,
		Interactive drop shadow, and Interactive
		transparency tools
		Lets you access the Interactive fill and
Interactive fill
		Interactive mesh fill tools
Eyedropper		Lets you access the Eyedropper and
		Paintbucket tools
Outline		Lets you access the Outline pen and the
		Outline color dialog boxes, the Color docker,
		and a selection of outlines of various widths
Fill		Lets you access the Color docker, the Fill
		color, Fountain fill, Pattern fill, and Texture
		fill dialog boxes, and the No fill button.

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An example is the Object properties docker. When it is open, you can click an object and view formatting, dimensions, and other properties of the object.

From here

For more information about	In the Help index, see...
Movie playback controls	workspace, movie playback controls
Property bar	workspace, property bar
Status bar	workspace, status bar
Timeline docker	workspace, Timeline docker
Toolbars	workspace, toolbars
Tools	workspace, tools

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