OK!

I'm aware of this problem and I'm constantly dealing with this.

It would be great if Pd would have a few more graphical options like "put object to front" or "put object to background".
This would save me a huge amount of time when layering different objects or putting a colored canvas behind an object.

Especially that now it is only possibly to move something to the front by cut/paste which removes all connections.

In Pd-extended it was possible to move an object to the front by Cut & Undo which would leave all connections in place.

Ingo

From: João Pais [mailto:jmmmpais@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 7:40 PM
To: Ingo
Cc: Pd-List
Subject: Re: [PD] Dropdown Menu external?

after having all libraries installed it works great!!!

Thanks for this object!
I just need to figure out where to set the files and size/colors, etc.

That shouldn't be a big deal once I take a closer look.

it's all explained in the help file.

However, I did have one problem:
If there is an object underneath my selection it will open this object instead of selecting my option.

Is there a way to avoid this?

since z-order depends on object creation order, there is a kind of a hack that will work if you copy/duplicate/paste the objects in the correct order. I just didn't manage to work enough with it to understand it yet. Usually I just leave empty space under the object, when possible.