Another FD Quirk

[Jean Vallee]

Head scratcher…. Draw a rectangle. Draw another rectangle on top of first but offset Select second rectangle, right click and select move to back. Does not move second rectangle behind first and selecting first rectangle and move to front does not work either. Jean Vallee

[Michael]

On 06/01/2013 18:47, JV wrote:
> Head scratcher….
>
> Draw a rectangle.
>
> Draw another rectangle on top of first but offset
>
> Select second rectangle, right click and select move to back.
>
> Does not move second rectangle behind first and selecting first
> rectangle and move to front does not work either.
>
> Jean Vallee
>

Actually, this is more a problem with wxWidgets. We have tried every possible method and we cannot get consistent behavior for
overlapping controls. wxWidgets specifically says that they do not support it and that you shouldn't do it. We aren't happy about
this, but we currently have to accept it. What you can be sure of is that controls are in front of graphics, but that is as far as
it goes. Also, that does not necessarily mean bitmaps when I say graphics. You will have to experiment a bit. We have put in some
work on this and there may be minor improvements in the next release, but nothing spectacular. We were not very pleased with the
efforts to make this work reliably (and Linux seems to work differently to Windows with the wx controls).

Ciao, Neil

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