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A poll floats on a slide as a card, or fills the screen as its own step. Both take the same poll; the difference is what the room looks at.

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Where a card goes

The rect is fractions of the slide: x and y for the top-left corner, w and h for the size. Left out, the card lands in the bottom-right quarter, the house default.
Three rules, from watching what looks right on a big screen:
  1. Cover a screenshot, a picture or empty space. Never text.
  2. If the default corner holds text, take another corner, or the picture’s area.
  3. A card under a fifth of the slide’s height is unreadable from the back of the room.
The API refuses a card that runs off the slide. Look at the result with get_screenshot before handing the deck over.

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How a card looks

The style is the card itself: the chart variant, the accent, the background, the corner radius, shadow and outline, and what the card prints. Leave it out for the house look; send only the fields you want to change.

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The looks

Most widgets offer several looks for their result, chosen with a property on the poll: mcStyle for multiple choice, scaleStyle for a rating, hpStyle for 100 points, and so on. The first look is the default. Some looks need a setting: arc and chord on multiple choice draw what people picked together, so they need multiSelect. The reference lists every look per widget and the rule behind it.

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Full screen instead

A question that deserves the whole room’s attention, a word cloud at the end, a Q&A, a spin of the wheel, goes in as a poll step with add_step. It fills the screen when the presenter walks onto it.
Any widget can float or fill the screen. A card can print percentages and counts only where the widget draws them; the reference says which.