Why is there no Z elevation for drawing canvas ?

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- Nabu
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You can change canvas Z Order but not Z Elevation, why ?

Is this planned in future updates ?

I just found that there is a Z Elevation value for the DrawingCanvas in the debugger, that you can change at runtime. You can also add DrawingCanvas as a child to some other object via hierarchy. But you can't directly change it via events at runtime.
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- WackyToaster
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- 22 Nov, 2023
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Hmm interesting. I'd suspect it's an oversight, I think it should be ok to post it in the issue tracker github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues
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- fedca
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You can change the z-elevation via js as a workaround for now.

runtime.objects.DrawingCanvas.getFirstInstance().zElevation = z;

I just wrote a bug report for the drawing objects with missing z-elevation (something similar came up just a day or two ago with the Video object on the Community Discord)
- Nabu
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Yes, Javascript has been useful more than once to access some things impossible from the editor, or at runtime. Thank you for posting a bug report.