# Control Panels: Operating a panel

> Use mode, and who else can drive it.

Glider documentation · Logic · Web page: https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/runtime/

Sections of this page: [Building a panel](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels.md) · [Widgets](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/widgets.md) · [Wiring](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/wiring.md) · [Operating a panel](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/runtime.md)

- Switch the scene to Use: inputs become writable and buttons clickable. Arrange is for moving and configuring them.
- Writes go to the page store like any other write, so a second operator, a Stream Deck key and an API call all compete on equal terms. Last write wins.

> **Panels are not a permission boundary:** A control panel limits what is convenient, not what is possible. Anything the panel can write, the HTTP API can write too.