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Click this to enable or disable the Canvas UI.

The Canvas Toolbar

Once the Canvas UI is enabled, the Canvas Toolbar is displayed on the canvas. By default it will appear in the top left corner of the screen and it can be moved by left click-drag on the left edge of the toolbar.

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Info

The position of the toolbar will be stored when saving a Workspace

Add a New LayerModify Layers

Press the Add Content button on the Canvas Toolbar and select New > WebView. This will display a web page defaulting to the www.igloovision.com web site. The name of the layer defaults to the title of the website.

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Show/Hide a Layer

Select the Layers button on the toolbar and move the mouse over Layer2 the first menu item to display the menu of layer actions.

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Press the Hide button. This will stop the Layer2 layer from being drawn on the canvas.

Press the Hide button also for Layer1. The canvas will now be displaying the background image only.

Bring back the layers layer by pressing Show for Layer1 and Layer2 via the Layers buttonlayer actions menu.

Edit mode

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Press the Edit button just to the right of the Layers button. This will switch to Edit mode and the currently selected layer will have resize handles drawn at each corner and along each edge.

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Click on another layer so that it becomes the selected layer. The resize handles will now be drawn on this layer instead. Try some more resizing and positioning and when completed press the Exit edit mode button.

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