# Root view background color and "options" inside a plugin

**URL:** https://forum.foleysfinest.com/t/root-view-background-color-and-options-inside-a-plugin/205
**Category:** PluginGuiMagic
**Created:** [22 January 2025 08:17 UTC](https://forum.foleysfinest.com/t/root-view-background-color-and-options-inside-a-plugin/205 "2025-01-22T08:17:22Z")
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### Author: ![Newbee](https://forum.foleysfinest.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Newbee](https://forum.foleysfinest.com/u/Newbee)
#### Post date: [22 January 2025 08:17 UTC](https://forum.foleysfinest.com/t/root-view-background-color-and-options-inside-a-plugin/205/1 "2025-01-22T08:17:22Z")

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Hi again,

First a note, I try to learn by fast head-on approach. So I may be posting trivial questions at times. Thanks for your understanding in advance.

That note aside, I encounter a background color issue with the root View in PGM editor, the related change isn’t get applied for some reason. The gradient color and image properties work, but not the background color. The same property works fine when set for added View components. So what I do so far is adding a dummy topmost View with desired color, setting its margin negative to hide the root View’s default grey color. What might be the reason?

Another detail I wonder from beginning is, if one can place Juce’s default “options” menu inside a plugin’s window. In a compiled standalone it’s readily available (top left), but I don’t see it in plugin version of a compiled app. This may rather be a Juce question but since it’s about GUI layout, perhaps PGM provides a way.

Thanks for making this great design tool available.