welp you were right. thanks so much for sticking with me on this. lol. I was totally discounting that it could be elevation since i had done this exact thing on a different layer without this issue... and it just didn't seem likely.

anyway, When creating the objects i had to explicitly set the z elevation to 0. The top of the layer was 22, which is where it would set my UI element. But for some reason the z ORDER of the text was WELL above that. but also the z elevaTION for the text was at 1 for some reason... instead of 0 (they should all be 0). DOH! Thanks again!

yeah i tried that. the highest the element gets is 22... for some reason all the text is much higher.

Lol I know. I've been throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to get it to do something different. Nothing is working. The text objects always end up at zorders higher than the elements that I explicitly push to the top.

What's odd is that in the loop part, I add a white box behind the text... THAT ends up below the UI elements...

So for some reason it's JUST the text objects that refuse to be lower than whatever I push to the top of the layer.

I will probably have to cave and make a new layer... Which, in my case, is a very annoying amount of work. Oy vey!

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I have a function that creates a bunch of text object.

here is a part of it, to give an idea:

I run a loop that executes that function a bunch of times creating a list.

I then set some UI elements to the top of that layer so that the text will scroll underneath it.

here's a screen of that part:

However setting the UI elements to the top of the layer is not working. the text elements are always above in the z order.

I'm specifically trying to avoid putting the UI elements on a layer above.

thanks in advance

How about a quality of life feature that allows making multiple actions for a given object/element at one time without having to find it in the menu for each new action.

Similarly a right click menu item: right click on an action and get an option to make a new action with that object/element.

Would LOVE a QoL feature that allows you to right click on something in the file browser OR an action/event and have a shortcut to create a new event/action/condition with the same object.

1) i make an action with Sprite 1.

2) right click on the action i just created and select "create another action with Sprite 1"

3) go directly to choosing what that action is

OR also maybe a way to create multiple actions at once for one object.

you choose an object and have the ability to select multiple actions and set the expression/parameters for those actions. the actions would display individually as normal.

Just would love to be able to not have to search for the same object many times in a row to do multiple things with it. (change an instance variable, move it, stop it, change an effect etc...)

my two cents. thanks for listening.

I have a sprite with one animation. I duplicated that animation, then went to rename it. When I typed in the new name for the DUPLICATE animation and then press ENTER, this is the crash I get.

I was able to make this happen with other sprites too. This is new. I have renamed duplicated animations before.

Error report information

Type: unhandled rejection

Reason: Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'iB') TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'iB') at wM.k9b.Alb (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:1913:347) at Array.tba (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:1909:147) at window.xab.dispatchEvent (https://editor.construct.net/r305/main.js:1090:42) at window.xab.Sr (https://editor.construct.net/r305/main.js:2349:85) at d.Ra (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:693:184) at d.gl (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:694:6) at editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:244:318

Stack: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'iB') at wM.k9b.Alb (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:1913:347) at Array.tba (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:1909:147) at window.xab.dispatchEvent (https://editor.construct.net/r305/main.js:1090:42) at window.xab.Sr (https://editor.construct.net/r305/main.js:2349:85) at d.Ra (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:693:184) at d.gl (https://editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:694:6) at editor.construct.net/r305/projectResources.js:244:318

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Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 22:10:25 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

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All of the sudden I am having an issue with The text in my text objects appearing at an offset to the textbox itself. If I match the z elevation to the Z index, the text will be in the right place. So it's as if the text object and the text itself is on a different z elevation.

this seems like something that shouldnt be happening (also, i never had to do it until recently).

Is there some aspect of text objects that I'm missing here? why am I having to correct the z elevation all the time for it to appear int eh right place. Did i accidentally click some setting that made this happen?

thanks!'

I solved my own issue. it was not a layout cloning issue.

I cloned a layout in order to have a "template" layout from which I could make other mostly similar layouts.

After doing this, it has caused some confusoion in my game... so when I go to the original layout, it seems to be trying to show my the original AND the cloned layout. cflickering between the two.

how do i recover from this?

and also is there a clean way to clone layouts?