Library panel

One browser for the project's reusable Symbols and its imported Images, Videos and Audios, with sorting, renaming and a way to clean out what you no longer use.

The Library panel lists two kinds of thing side by side: Symbols you have built inside the project, and media (Images, Videos and Audios) you have imported into it. Both are reusable across as many layers as you like.

Opening it#

Open it from Window ▸ Library. It is off by default.

Adding and removing symbols#

+ Symbol creates a new, empty symbol, automatically named "Symbol" plus the next free number. Delete removes the selected symbol. It stays disabled unless a symbol is selected, since media assets in this panel are never selectable in the first place, and it is also disabled for the symbol you have open for editing.

Duplicate Symbol makes a new, independent symbol with a copy of the original's content, listed right after it and selected. It is named after the original with Copy added, or given a free name if that one is taken. Changing the copy never touches the original or its instances. Delete in the right-click menu is greyed out for a symbol that is open for editing, like the button.

List and grid views#

The burger menu switches between Show as List and Show as Grid. Right-click a symbol for Edit Symbol, Rename, Delete or Duplicate Symbol, and right-click a media item for Remove from Library. Both views carry the same menu.

Grid view shows a type icon for every item rather than an image preview, so you are reading names and icons either way, not thumbnails.

Sorting and filtering#

Sort by Type (the default), Name, Newest first or Oldest first. Four toggles (Symbols, Images, Videos, Audios) control which types are listed at all, all on by default.

Renaming#

Double-click a symbol to enter it for editing. Right-click ▸ Rename turns the row into a text field; pressing Enter or clicking away commits it, in either view, and renames the library symbol and every layer elsewhere in the project that instances it, in one undo step. Media rows cannot be renamed here.

Purging unused items#

The burger menu's Purge Unused… opens a count of unused symbols and unused media, with Remove and Cancel. A symbol counts as unused when nothing in the project places it, and a symbol placed only inside another symbol still counts as used, and the symbol you have open for editing is never counted; a media asset counts as unused when no Video, Audio or Image layer points at its file. Two images with the same name from different folders are two separate assets.

Dragging into the scene#

Drag a symbol onto the canvas to place a fresh instance of it there, selected and ready to move. Drag a media asset onto the canvas to add it as a layer of the matching type: a video becomes a Video layer, an image becomes an Image layer, both loaded and centred on the canvas, and audio becomes an Audio layer.

Right-click works the same in both views: a symbol offers Edit Symbol, Rename, Delete and Duplicate Symbol, and a media asset offers Remove from Library, with a confirmation when layers still point at it.

The window's open or closed state is remembered between sessions, but the view mode, sort order, type filters and selection are not: they reset to their defaults every time you relaunch Celas Studio.