Auction board

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. 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.

How to set it up

The page opens on the list of widgets, not on the settings. Create widget sits above it; the first widget is called Main and a new one arrives as New widget. Each row carries the widget's name, a one-line summary of its settings and the buttons Copy link, Duplicate, Delete and Configure — Delete appears only once there are two, because the last widget cannot be removed. Configure opens the settings described below and takes you back to the list. Every widget keeps its own link and its own look, so two of them can stand in different scenes at the same time.

1. The hint under the title says what the source needs: "Add this URL as an OBS Browser Source. Recommended size: 900 × 900. The preview below is smaller (420 × 540), so text will look smaller in OBS than it does here."
2. In Link parameters on the left choose Layout — Full or Compact — and Rows on screen, a number from 1 to 20 (8 by default).
3. The address in the field under the preview changes with those two settings. Press Copy link in the header and paste it into the Browser Source.
4. The Styling card above the section list keeps ready-made looks and your own. Open the list, "-- Choose a template --", and take one from Built-in — Neon, Minimal, Retro — or from Mine — this overlay and Mine — from other overlays. The line under the list says what pressing Apply will do.
5. 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; 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.
6. The list of sections under it is the board taken apart: Backdrop, Title, Timer, Description, Lots. Pick one and its fields open on the right.
7. Backdrop carries Background, Radius, Padding, Border and Shadow. Title, Timer and Description each carry Font, Size, Weight, Color and Shadow. Lots adds Radius, Padding, Gap and Lot color fill, % to the same five.
8. Nothing here has a save button — the note over the preview says "Changes are saved automatically." A source already added to OBS repaints itself, without touching its cache.
9. - and + over the preview zoom it between 50% and 200%; the number between them shows the current zoom. This changes the preview only, not the overlay.
10. Reset appearance in the header drops everything you set by hand and reloads the page with the look that comes from the app theme.

What it cannot do

• Lots, their totals, the auction name and the description are not edited here. The board only shows what the Auction page holds; until the first state arrives it reads "Waiting for auction state…".
• Compact drops the description and leaves the name, the timer and the lots.
• More than 20 rows cannot be put on screen, and fewer than 1 is not accepted either.
• The link carries the layout and the number of rows and nothing else — the language of the overlay follows the language of the app.
• The board holds no history of its own and shows no result while the wheel is still spinning.