<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydpe46ce314yahoo_quoted_9411766913" class="ydpe46ce314yahoo_quoted" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>> On Friday, September 20, 2019, 7:52:07 AM EDT, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi@gmx.at> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">>> Pd doesn't care about z-ordering at all and the order of drawing is <br clear="none">>> mainly defined by "what needs to be done" (rather than: "how will it <br clear="none">>> look like").<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>> I don't agree that there is no defined z-ordering in Pd, otherwise you couldn't reliably build GUIs.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Scalars in Pd Vanilla don't have a well-defined z-order:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1. Display a scalar square on top of a scalar circle</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2. Delete the scalar circle</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">3. Undo the delete</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Now the scalar circle is displayed on top of the scalar square.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Pure Data ought to retain the z-ordering in this and other circumstances. If it <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">doesn't please submit a bug and I'll fix it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Jonathan<br></div></div></div>
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