Prevent layer from interaction

I have some kind of book pages which are represented as layers in Construct. On every page are different characters. All characters are dragable.

By switching pages, I activate and deactivate layers and so I can browse through the book and look at the characters. But trying to drag them leads to errors cause is seems that a deactivated layer or object receive events too.

I there any way to prevent them from getting the click/drag event? I can't find any option to deactivate the layer or the object.

Further I can't see something like groups to make it easier to control on a single layer. Any suggestions?

You can't prevent the clicks from coming through. But you can add a filter to your events. For example, if you deactivate layers by making them invisible, you can add this condition to all "On clicked" events:

Is Layer Object.layerNumber visible

you can also use families to make groups, give the family an instance variable to associate them with a page to help with filtering.

Thanks for your replies.

As far as I have tested, filtering isn't working in this case cause it seems that the upper layer "blocks" the events for the other objects below.

So, objects below this invisible upper layer seems not to receive my drag event. Or am I filtering wrong?

Here I filter for visibility of the layer, the object and in addition if the object is on the right layer, but still I can only drag the objects on the top layer. Moving the objects away a little bit, I'm able to drag the objects below them.

Thank you, that's the hint I've been looking for!

In my case, disabling the Drag & Drop behavior for objects on hidden layers seems to solve the problem.