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authorLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2021-01-22 12:39:02 +0100
committerLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2021-01-25 15:02:30 +0000
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Doc: Describe setting canvas color for components
Change-Id: I2fcc1d45e9caddfb3d52a87cc03043249472b751 Reviewed-by: Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@qt.io>
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\uicontrol {Qt Quick} > \uicontrol {Qt Quick Designer} and
specify the canvas width and height in the \uicontrol Canvas group.
+ \section1 Setting Canvas Color
+
+ If you set the background of the root item of your component transparent,
+ the canvas color can make it difficult to see the component you are working
+ on. To make components more visible, you can select the canvas color in
+ the \inlineimage icons/canvas-color.png
+ list. By default, the color is transparent. Setting the canvas color does
+ not affect the background color of your UI or components in any way.
+
+ \image qmldesigner-canvas-color.png "Transparent canvas color for a transparent component"
+
\section1 Refreshing the Form Editor Contents
When you open QML files in the Design mode, the items in the file are drawn