Auction board

Installed separately, as part of the Auction bundle: this module does not come with the app installer. Open Module Catalog → Add-ons and press Install on the Auction card, and the bundle installs all of its modules at once.

What this page is

Auction board prepares the OBS overlay that shows the auction: its name, the timer, the description and the leaderboard of lots. It lives at Auction → Board overlay. The page is a link builder and an appearance editor at once: the preview in the middle is the same board that goes into OBS, drawn in a frame of the source size you pick under it.

The list

The page opens on the list of boards, not on the settings. Create widget sits above it; the first board is called Main and a new one arrives as New widget. Each row has an On air switch, the board's name, a line such as "Lots on screen: 8" and the buttons Copy link, Duplicate, Delete and Configure. Delete appears only once there are two, because the last board cannot be removed. Configure opens the settings described below, and Back to list brings you back. Every board keeps its own link and its own look, so two of them can stand in different scenes at the same time.

• On air off takes that board off the stream at once, without Save Settings: it disappears from every OBS scene that holds its link and stops redrawing. The row is marked Off. The auction itself keeps going: bids, totals, the timer and the draw. To stop the auction, use Turn off on the Auction: Control tile.
• Switched back on, the board shows the current totals and the result of the last draw. A draw that happened while it was off is not played again.
• A board deleted from the list goes dark the same way, even if its link is still in OBS.
• The preview on this page always shows the board, on or off, so you can set one up before putting it on air.

How to set it up

1. The hint under the title says what the source needs: "Copy the link with the Copy link button and add it to OBS as a Browser Source. Recommended size: 900 × 900. In the editor, set the same Source size under the preview, and the preview will match OBS."
2. Open a board with Configure and pick Source size under the preview: the size of the Browser Source this board sits in. The preview frame takes that size, so what you see is what OBS shows. The choice is shared by the other overlay editors in the app.
3. Press Copy link in the header and paste the address into the Browser Source. One link is enough: everything you change on this page reaches a source already in OBS after Save Settings, without copying the link again.
4. The Styling card at the top of the left column keeps ready-made looks and your own. Open "-- Choose a template --" and take one from Built-in (Neon, Minimal, Retro and the twelve themes) or from Mine — this overlay and Mine — from other overlays. The line under the list says what pressing Apply will do. To keep the current look, type a name into Template name in the same card and press Save; Delete removes a saved template of your own, and the confirmation adds "The current styling is not affected." Picking one of your own templates puts its name back into the field and Save reads Update: saving then overwrites that template instead of leaving a second copy behind. A ready look, a template and Reset appearance leave Lots on screen and Description as they were.
5. Down the left are five sections: Board, Material, Backdrop, Header and Lots. Pick one and its fields open on the right, grouped under small headings.
6. Board holds Lots on screen, from 1 to 100 (8 by default), and Description, Show or Hide. When the lots do not fit, the whole board gets smaller so that none of them is cut off. Under them, Distance from the source edge has Top and bottom and Left and right, in pixels: the space between the source edge and the board.
7. Material dresses the board in one of the twelve themes: the backdrop, the header and every lot row take that look. Each lot's wheel colour moves into the theme's trim, so a row still matches its sector on the wheel at a glance; under Clear glass and Frosted glass that colour does not show. While a theme is on, fields it draws by itself, such as Border and Lot color fill, %, are hidden. How themes work in general is in the guide "Styling an Overlay".
8. Backdrop is the panel behind the header and the lots: Background, Corner radius, Inner padding, Border and Plate shadow. It is transparent by default.
9. Header is the card with the name, the timer and the description, in five blocks. Plate: Background, Radius, Inner padding, top and bottom, Inner padding, left and right, Border and Plate shadow. Title, Timer and Description: Font, Size, Weight, Color and Text shadow each. Effect runs an outline effect around the header: pick one in Effect, then in Plays choose All the time, or When the wheel stops to flash it each time the wheel stops.
10. Lots is the leaderboard, in three blocks. Text: Font, Size, Lot name weight, Color and Text shadow; the weight changes the lot name only, the number and the total stay bold. Lot row: Background, Radius, Inner padding, top and bottom, Inner padding, left and right, Gap between lots and Lot color fill, %, how strongly a row is tinted with its lot's colour. Effect runs around the rows: All the time outlines every lot still in play, When the lot is drawn flashes the lot the wheel named. With Lot color ticked, which is the default, every row glows in its own lot's colour; untick it to give all rows one colour.
11. Sizes are in pixels, and the board keeps its size in a larger source instead of growing with it. To make the text bigger, raise Size in Title, Timer, Description and in Text under Lots. Set Source size first, so the preview matches OBS.
12. The name and every field are written only when you press Save Settings in the header: the note over the preview says "Changes stay here until you press Save." The preview shows your edits right away. Once saved, a source already added to OBS takes the new look, Lots on screen and Description by itself, without touching its cache. Back to list with unsaved changes asks first.
13. - and + over the preview zoom it in and out. This changes the preview only, not the overlay.
14. Reset appearance in the header puts the default look back on screen. It is written, and reaches OBS, only when you press Save Settings; leave without saving and the old look stays.

A board set up before strAImer 0.25.0

Such a board keeps its old look in OBS until you open it here and press Save Settings.

1. When you open it, the editor converts its sizes to pixels for the Source size under the preview, and Board names that size: "Sizes are now in pixels. They were converted for a {width} × {height} source: if your OBS source is a different size, set it in Source size under the preview before saving."
2. If your OBS source is a different size, pick that size in Source size first. Fields you have not touched are converted again for the new size.
3. The first Save Settings asks Save sizes in pixels? with the same size. Cancel leaves everything unsaved so you can fix the size; Save Settings in that window writes it.

An older link may also carry Lots on screen and the old compact layout, which is now Description: Hide. Until you change either field in Board, OBS takes them from the link, and Board says so: "Until you change Lots on screen or Description here, OBS takes them from the source link." Change one of them and save, and from then on this page wins, with no new link needed. A board made with Create widget has no such note: its link always came from this page.

What it cannot do

• Lots, their totals, the auction name and the description are not edited here. The board only shows what Auction → Auction holds. When the auction has no lots to show, none added yet or all of them disabled, the place of the lots reads "Waiting for auction state…".
• The source in OBS stays empty until the auction reports its state. So it is also empty, from the moment the scene loads, while the auction is switched off on Auction: Control or the auction module is not running at all.
• More than 100 lots cannot be put on screen, and fewer than 1 is not accepted either. Many lots mean small text: the board shrinks to fit them rather than cutting lots off.
• The board does not grow with a larger source: sizes are in pixels and change only on this page.
• The language of the overlay follows the language of the app; there is no link per language.
• The board holds no history of its own and shows no result while the wheel is still spinning.