Hi list,
I have a patch with some gui-objects wich I want to 'visually' group together by putting canvases behind them; e.g. put a red canvas behind the vcf-section, a green canvas behind the vco-section - something like the old analog Roland synths (jupiter 6, 8...). Here's my problem: If I create the canvas after(!) creating the gui-objects it will allways be on top of them (covering them). Is there any 'layer'-funktionality like in graphics-apps, or any message which I can send to it to put it to the background?
cheers Lutz
p.s.: I'm on debian sid, pd 0.38.4
Lutz Scheulen wrote:
Hi list,
If I create the canvas after(!) creating the gui-objects it will allways be on top of them (covering them).
yes
Is there any 'layer'-funktionality like in graphics-apps, or any message which I can send to it to put it to the background?
short answer: NO.
i just select all the objects that are covered by the canvas _but_ the canvas itself and make "Ctrl-X Ctrl-Z" to put them on top of the canvas (the inner state of the the so moved copy-n-pasted objects will be cleared!)
the first versions of canvas had this already built in (to be precise: it was really "Ctrl-A Ctrl-X Ctrl-V" which was naughtier as you would eventually loosing connections outside of the patch too) but this is gone (as it pretended to be a solution while it was a dirty hack)
mfg.ads.r IOhannes
p.s.: I'm on debian sid, pd 0.38.4
so Ctrl-Z will work
IOhannes m zmoelnig schrieb:
i just select all the objects that are covered by the canvas _but_ the canvas itself and make "Ctrl-X Ctrl-Z" to put them on top of the canvas
it took me approx. 5mins to get the point ( I was still doing ctrl-a before, thus loosing my outside connections), but now I got it:-)
Thanx-a-lot for your quick response.
lutz
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