Application interface overview

Being primarily focused on motion and interactivity, the Edge interface places a great emphasis upon modifying element properties over time. We will discover that Edge places many useful sections of the interface such as the Stage, Timeline, and Properties panels in plain view in order to make these tools readily available in our work.

The application window

Whether running Edge on Windows or OS X, the application window will appear very similar across platforms. In many of Adobe's creative products, the windowing on OS X is very different than it is on Windows. With Edge, the operating mode is the same across platforms; so while the reader will notice most of the screenshots in this book featuring from the Windows version of Edge, there should be very little difference when running the application on OS X.

The application window itself is broken into a variety of separate modules. Most of these modules fall under the category of "panels" and can be toggled...