Slicing and Advanced mode

Advanced mode

The Advanced toggle sits in the top-right of the Configuration panel (violet button). Flip it on when you need the extras, off when you don't. Your choice sticks for a year.

It unlocks three things:

• Per-row and per-column panel mixing
• Slicing: cutting a too-big screen into pieces that rearrange to fit the canvas
• Editing canvas colors inline, without a theme file

Per-row and per-column layout

In simple mode, you set columns and rows and every tile is the same size. In Advanced mode, each row and each column gets its own dropdown, so you can mix cabinet sizes within a single screen.

Handy for walls that combine a main cabinet with half-height trim, or for stacking a 1920x1080 row on top of a 960x540 one.

Edit colors without a theme file

With Advanced on, you can edit the canvas colors inline. No JSON, no upload. Good for a one-off look, or for trying a tweak before committing to a theme you want to keep.

Edits live in your current session only. For permanent themes you save and reuse, see Themes. Studio will also let you edit and save themes straight to your account, so they stick with you across projects.

Slicing

Sometimes a screen is wider or taller than your canvas. A 3840x200 banner on a 1920x1080 canvas, for example, is twice too wide but has plenty of vertical room to spare.

Slicing cuts that banner into pieces and lets you rearrange the pieces on the canvas. Cut it down the middle, drop the left half at (0, 0) and the right half at (0, 500), and the whole thing fits. Each slice keeps its own section of the source screen (start column, end column, start row, end row), so moving a slice doesn't change what content it shows.

HappyMaps flags it when you need this:

Typical case: a wide banner you stack as two halves. A tall totem you lay down as stripes. Anything that's the wrong shape to drop onto the canvas in one piece, but the right size once you cut it up.

The flow

1. Expand the screen you want to slice and open the Splits section.
2. Click Split. HappyMaps suggests slices along sensible panel boundaries.
3. Each slice shows up as a numbered card (Slice 1 of 3, etc.) with its bounds.
4. Tweak start and end columns and rows with the number inputs. Set Start X and Start Y for each slice.
5. Need another one? Add slice drops a new one at the next uncovered region.
6. Clear removes all splits and returns to a single screen.

The object's X and Y coordinates are linked to the first slice. Slices 2 and up place themselves wherever you set them. Boundaries show up on the canvas preview so you can see what each slice covers.