The canvas is the main workspace in GUIness where you build, connect, and arrange nodes into pipelines. It is a free-form, infinite surface that supports panning, zooming, multi-node selection, and a collapsible minimap — all designed to keep the focus on your pipeline as it grows.Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/discoposse/GUIness/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Pan and zoom
Pan
Middle-click and drag anywhere on the canvas, or hold Spacebar and left-click drag to pan in any direction.
Zoom
Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. The current zoom percentage is displayed in the bottom-right corner of the canvas.
Reset view
Click the Reset View button in the top toolbar to fit all nodes back into the visible viewport.
Selection
GUIness supports several ways to select one or more nodes on the canvas:| Method | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Click | Selects the clicked node and deselects everything else. |
| Shift+Click | Adds the clicked node to the current selection, or removes it if already selected. |
| Lasso | Click and drag on an empty area of the canvas to draw a selection rectangle. All nodes within the rectangle are selected when you release. |
| Alt+Click | Selects the clicked node and every node connected downstream from it — useful for grabbing an entire branch at once. |
Minimap
The minimap is a collapsible birds-eye view docked to the bottom-right corner of the canvas. It gives you an overview of your entire pipeline regardless of your current zoom level.- All nodes appear as small colored rectangles matching their node color.
- Edges between nodes are shown as lines.
- Click anywhere on the minimap to jump the canvas view to that position.
- Drag on the minimap to pan the canvas view smoothly.
- Selected nodes are highlighted with a thicker border in the minimap.
- Collapse or expand the minimap by clicking the ▾ MAP toggle above it.
Collapsible panels
Both the Node Library (left) and the Inspector Panel (right) can be collapsed to give the canvas more horizontal space.- Click the ◂ button on the left panel or the ▸ button on the right panel to collapse them.
- When collapsed, a narrow vertical label strip remains visible. Click it to expand the panel again.
- Collapsing both panels gives you the full width of the browser window for the canvas.