Preventing 'layered' elements?

[bgowland]

I can't quite get my head around what's happening with the popup (see screenshot). In some ways it looks quite cool but I'd prefer the popup to appear in front of the 'Now Playing' panel rather than partially behind it.

The Now Playing panel is defined in the skin.xml...

Code:

<Placement name="NowPlaying" loc="2,50"/>
...
<CompositeImage name="NowPlaying" size="23,25">
    <DrawCommonImage name="IconViewNormalItemBackground"/>
    <DrawText text="Now Playing" loc="0,1" size="100,21" textStyle="IconViewItems" align="Center" valign="Center"/>
    <DrawImage filename="@channelLogo" loc="14,21" size="72,56"/>
    <DrawText text="@channelName" loc="0,75" size="100,21" textStyle="IconViewItems" align="Center" valign="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>

It's instantiated at the end of the plugin's PopulateListWidget() method...

Code:

NowPlayingPanel = new GBPVRUiElement("Now Playing", skinHelper2.getPlacementRect("NowPlaying"), skinHelper2.getNamedImage("NowPlaying", args));

It's added to the renderlist in the GetRenderList() method...

Code:

ArrayList renderlist = base.GetRenderList();
...
if (NowPlayingPanel != null)
    renderList.Add(NowPlayingPanel);

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Brian

[whurlston]

It's being rendered after the popup has been rendered. Try:

Code:

ArrayList renderlist = base.GetRenderList();
...
if (NowPlayingPanel != null [color=Red]&& base.activePopup == null[/color])
    renderList.Add(NowPlayingPanel);

That way it will only be rendered if there is no popup.

[sub]

Yeah, thats probably the easiest thing to do. Otherwise you can look at using Insert instead of Add, so that you can specify where in the render list it should be placed.

[bgowland]

LOL - whurlston, thanks for the suggestion but the Now Playing panel and the popup play 'hide and seek' when I do this (popup appears, panel disappears and vice versa when the popup is closed)

sub, I'd thought about creating a copy of renderlist but adding the panel first - I didn't think about the Insert() method (doh!).

renderlist.Insert(0, NowPlayingPanel) does the trick.

Cheers,
Brian