How do I create layer dynamically

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- mammouth31
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Hello everybody,

I am making a point n click game and I don't know how to make my inventory menu.

This menu would pop up on top of any level (layout) and I would like to avoid creating this menu in the editor for every layout.

My idea was to create it dynamically in a specific top layer on start of every layout and then show/hide it when needed.

My problem is that it seems I can't create layers dynamically in construct 2. A workaround would be to put inventory element in the top layer of the layout but I can't even get the top layer's name (My layouts can have different numbers of layers for parallax).

Does anybody knows a solution/workaround for this ? Thanks
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- blackhornet
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In the Create event put the Layer name in quotes: "HUD". This will work instead of a number.
- mammouth31
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But i must create manually a layer named "HUD" in every layout... Not such a big deal afterall. thx
- mammouth31
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But i must create manually a layer named "HUD" in every layout... Not such a big deal afterall. thx
- blinkn
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Good luck man, i also want to know how to do this.